I don’t know what a ricer is, but I just want to say that glarGH makes me feel all tingly inside.
…but doesn’t have a VTEC.
This post COMPLETELY confused me. Okay, the people in the car forum were “ricers” (owners of small asian make vehicles) and they said YOUR car was gay?
Most of the rest of the post I can’t even take a guess at. But I’d have to disagree with the “ricers” opinions, I think they are the dorkiest cars.
Wannabes.
“Real” cars are '69 GTO’s, 64 Mustangs, etc etc,you get the drift.
SO, I think I agree with you glargh,but, I could be wrong.
I’m so old I remember when ricers were Japanese motorcyles.
Wait.
That was rice burners.
I think.
My understanding:
“Rice rockets” are Japanese motorcycles.
“Rice burners” are overly-decorated Honda Accords. <snicker>
“Ricers” are the wanna-be’s who drive the burners.
I live in a town known as “little Manila” for its Filipino and Vietnamese populations. I am so sick of these cars - coffee can exhaust, VTEC stickers, spoiler wider than the car, tinted windows, blah. Who the fuck do you think you’re impressing? Go spend your money on an education, not your momma’s Honda.
Now, the boys driving said cars… YUM!
Esprix
You like rice?
SStrangely, there is a popular football(?) player named rice here… A couple of people go around asking “You like rice?” and pointing to their shirts.
:wally 's.
Another term you need to learn, then - “Rice Queen.” 
Esprix
I think even some American? cars may qualify: Dodge Neon, the Geo and perhaps some other tiny cute small engine FWD cars.
all them decals must be worth a couple of tenths - and that type R coffee can on the tail pipe is worth at least 25 HP (ha! that would be a 20% increase)
BTW the ? mark was because I don’t even know where many of these cars are being made these days???
As much as I dislike them, my friend and neighbor that posts using my computer, and screen name!, says “yeah but they are supporting the sport and keeping the speed shops going.”
I grit my teeth and say who am I to judge? I’ve done some some silly things in the pursuit of power to my car - but I get results!
http://www.miamirice.net/
This story brought a tear to my eye. Thank you.
I hate ricers, too. I much prefer my food mill, plus it’s easier to turn the handle then to…
Oh, wait. Never mind.
Around here, Japanese motorcycles were usually called “rice rockets” or “Yokohama crotch rockets.”
“Rice burners” was applied to Japanese cars in general, including my beloved Nissans; it was often said derisively by yahoos driving Chryslers with bodies built in Canada, shipped to Mexico for final assembly, then returned to the States and widely thought of as domestic.
I have to laugh at this post.
My dear friend is a filipino and he buys the silly stuff for his 1992 Honda Accord.
Recently, he purchased “european” tail lamps to replace the factory ones. He has a tail on the trunk that gets in the way of the radio antenna, which he dismantled (and is giving me the motor for) so he can put on a more aerodynamic antenna on.
I have a 1993 Accord, mines four door though, and he doesn’t understand why I don’t trick it out.
Well, um, it’s a Honda, if I had an Acura NSX, I wouldn’t need to trick out my car. It’s a freakin HONDA. It’s not built for speed, it’s built to be an economic vehicle that has a little style to it, it could never be a “sports car” no matter how much I “tricked it out” with decals, tail lights and spoilers.
< giggle-rific stuff when people do that to their vehicles >
My personal favorite is when someone takes a front wheel drive car and sticks a massive spoiler on it. Idiot!
Oh yes, there is also a site that allows you to deal with these punks in a civilized manner - ticket 'em.
Ohhh yes, the ricers. I live in an area where the majority of the residents are Asian college students or white college students who try to “act Asian” (whatever that means). And man oh man do these cars look stupid.
Funny thing, the entrance to the parking lot at my apartment complex has the mother of all speed bumps (sorry, “drainage ditches”) at the entrance … and if you look around the lot, the cars ride just a little higher than most of the lowered Civics around.
Of course, I did a bit of online research into these things, trying to comprehend what the hell leads someone to stick a three-tiered wing that weighs more than the car itself on the rear deck, plaster the sides with stickers (yellow=performance!), eff up their suspension, and do the automotive equivalent of sticking a baseball card in the spokes to make the car sound bigger. As a result, I will occasionally stop, point, and laugh in the parking lot. “Look at that! What kind of moron puts a Type R sticker on a Sentra? Who does he think he’s fooling? Hell, it’s not even a hatchback …”
– Dragonblink, who drives an '89 four-door Accord which is completely stock except for the new CD player.
So, let me get this straight - Someone who increases the enjoyment of his car by making it look like a race car, even though it’s no faster, is an ‘idiot’.
But someone who spends thousands of extra dollars to put a bone-jarring suspension in their car and a monster engine that gets 12mpg, so that they can enjoy their car more, is brilliant?
Where do the people who chop their car roofs down fit in? Are they smart or stupid? How about low riders, who put hydraulic shocks on their cars so they can bounce up and down? Is their car hobby on the accepted list?
Don’t get me wrong - I have no desire to stick decals on my car or put a giant wing on the back. And I love high performance cars. It would just never occur to me to belittle someone else because their hobby was slightly different from mine.
How do you feel about stamp collecting? Or collecting old bottles? Or building little metal sculptures for your lawn? Or flying model planes?
I’m just trying to figure out how to avoid being tagged as an idiot for not having the ‘right’ hobby.
Tolerance, folks.
Sam Stone: it’s not just that these cars are ugly, it’s that some of the things done to them can be downright dangerous. Those pitch-black tinted windows and huge spoilers can’t be good for visibility. That nuclear stereo can’t help driving concentration. Setting your suspension so the car rides half an inch off the ground probably isn’t a great idea, or else more cars would do it. And finally, I know not everyone who does that to their car races them, but there is a dangerous credence being given to street racing (thank you very much, “Fast and the Furious”) by crap like this.
Okay, I’ll give you the street racing. But the non-ricer racers aren’t any better. A lot of the guys who make fun of the ricers drive cars with removed emissions devices for more power, have blower hoods blocking half their vision, and who are driving cars on the street with 400 HP or more - and using it.
People should drive their cars safely, and obey emissions laws. Outside of that, I don’t care if they want to paint them like pink grapefruits and and drive them in formations designed to look like Carmen Miranda’s head. To each their own.
or even 500HP
But I’ve got this kewl sticker that I’m about to install that should put me in the 1000HP range - lol
A friend of mine calls them “Doof Doof Cars”, which I like. Because all you hear as they drive past is doof doof doof doof doof coming out of their ‘deaf before you’re 22’ speaker systems.