Goldnwhite wrote:Ok dude. What ever!!! A non ricer car would be a Ford, chevy, and dodge. Not a toyota... Say it fast and it just sounds japanese, like honda or nissan! I'm not afraid to admit I OWN a ricer. And if its not a ricer, theres probably a retired lady down the street with one.
haha, a chevy cavalier can be (and usually is, if modified) MORE ricey than a modded solara (for example, my solara)
now, if you just define 'ricer' as anything that is based out of an asian company, then mitsu, honda, suzuki, kia, hyundai, infinity, nissan, lexus, etc ARE ALL ricer companies. this is a pretty weak definition though, since that means that a stock lexus LS460 is a ricer car. or a stock infinity fx35 is ricer.
personally, a car becomes 'ricey' or a 'ricers car' to me, when there are pointless modifications done to the car. this is different to me, from being a car enthusiast, or being into modifying cars.
examples of ricer characteristics (to me) include:
-a BIG wing on the tail end, when it's a front wheel drive car
- a super-aggressive body kit on a 4cyl NA car without suspension work
- cutting your springs instead of lowering properly
- installing a super big exhaust 'fart cannon' on your 1.8L engine which effectively kills any lowend torque (but it sounds so MEAAAAN!!!!! lol))
- electric superchargers, need i say more?
- excessive amounts of neon (a little neon can be tastefully done, but overkill looks trashy)
- body graphics...you know, those big vinyl flames, or tear marks, or claw marks, that you see on the side of the riced out eclipse (very Fast&Furious inspired), which end up only looking trashy.
- basically, if you throw every <$50 mod at the car you can find, then you're probably building a ricer.
the concept of ricing out a vehicle doesn't only apply to imports. and usually the threshhold from being a 'modder' to being a 'ricer' is whether or not you have an eye for tastefully modifying a car, or if you go over the top with every single accessory, whether it actually does something or not. also, misbadging is a common indicator of a ricer car (like, having a sentra se with "type-r" badged on it.....yes i know there's a sentra SE-R spec v, but that's not what the badges are suggesting)
my car for example: 99 sle v6, custom fabricated intake, custom fabricated ground wires, throttle body spacer, and subwoofers. paint is OEM flame red metallic, no vinyl graphics along the sides, no excessive spoiler on the back end (just the OEM spoiler, because i think it compliments the lines of the car). my car is debadged (and i thought about re-badging with TRD logos) if i rebadged with TRD, i woulda felt like it was too ricey (even though TRD is a toyota performance group, the sheer fact that i don't have any TRD specific parts on my car kept me from misrepresenting).
ricer chevy....much worse than most any cars you'll see in a sig around here.
please man, for someone with a relatively clean looking solara, i'd assume that you would know the difference between tastefully modding, and completely ricing out a car.
bottom line: Owning a ricer is NOT something to be proud of....unless you're proud to be the laughing stock of the car community.
it's not like the term 'ricer' has EVER been used in a positive way, in any context.
......one of these things is not like the other....one of these things just isn't the same....
by Goldnwhite » Sun Feb 08, 2009 6:51 pm 
Im just busting your balls man... everyone is entitled to their opinion I suppose.
