yes i have offen wondered how this term came about.

'Rice' = 'asian grown grain, used as a base for oriental style meals.'

So what i'm wondering is when 'we' call people 'rice' are we referring to people of asian background?

I'm sure most anti-ricers are more or less referring to the distaste of the middle-eastern style modifying, ie. 'Mohammed Omar's fully decked out WRX (just an example), more than 'John Wong's Lancer with Cannon exhaust, Mitsubishi sponsorship stickers, and automatic transimission.'

So the labelling solution: 'Kebabs'

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Which one is the Ricer[ 24 vote(s) ]
1.	The Guy Standing next to his fully sick car keeping it smick	22 / 92%
2.	The guy playing around under the bonnet because its lost 1% of power	2 / 8%

The main point is why do you need a 5 inch tacho? is your seeing that bad you need a 5 inch tacho? if yes then you shouldn't even be on the road,

its fair enough to do a couple of things to a car to make it look that little bit better and make it a bit different to every other car out there but the problem is when people start doing mods not because they happen to like it but because they want other people to think they look good,


A Ricer is someone who does up there car in the attempt to improve their self image and make themself look good to anyone who sees them driving, They put all that shit on the car to make other people like it and impress them.

Where someone who does an engine swap doesn't do it for the group of teenagers on the corner but do it for their own enjoyment of having a fast car.

Its hard to define a ricer, sure i have a dump tip on my car and mags, but thats because i like it and thats the last of the cosmetic things i plan on doing to it, i have no need to stick performance stickers all over my car and letting everyone know what brand stereo i have.

i'm not going for impressing people, for God sake i own a Charade and its not something that would impress a car hoon but i'm doing up the engine and gearbox and turning it into rally spec for my own enjoyment, i love going into a corner at a million k's an hour so i'm building a car that can do that.




so most easy way to tell if your a ricer is,

do you slow down when going past people on the side of the road so they get a longer look at your car?

do you look at people on the side of the road to see if they look at your car?

Will you only drive through populated area's so people can see your car?

if so then you are doing up your car for other peoples enjoyment and not your own.

and thats what a ricer is, someone who does up a car so other people think it looks good, not because you want to.

A true car lover will restore a car, modify it so its more enjoyable to drive and enjoy just sitting there and looking at it by themself, going on long drives by themself to just enjoy driving their car.




Here is a question for you guys,

Who is a ricer and what is a ricer? well i'm not into cars being all done up for show as i like the plain nice looking cars are cars with no interior at all such as race cars, so there for i will look at any car thats had a body kit put on it and say its rice but i might just mean that in the same way as calling my mate gay when he has his girl friend standing right there next to him, i'm sure we all know about calling our mates or other people gay even when we know there not, we do it just for the sake of saying the word.
which is the same for ricer,

look at the cars on Fast and the Furious, i call them rice simply because so much has been done to the outside of them, yet they arn't truly rice as they have had a lot done under the bonnet as well.

i guess the word "rice" has just become a common word we use to describe anyone thats has put stickers or a body kit on their car.

but the only real rice cars out there are the ones which have had a half ass job done to them so you know they are trying to make the car look good but instead made it look worse "in my eyes"

show cars or cars that have been stripped down to a shell and rebuilt to show spec i wouldn't class as rice as they have put thousands of dollars into it and done a fantastic job.

yet the bloke down the street who tries to do the same thing but only spends $500 and makes it look dodgy as. and now thinks everyone will like his fully sick car then that is rice.


I'd love to go and put a Detomaso Charade Body Kit on my car as they look fucking awsome "i mean the original production built Detomaso Charade Kit" but i would not be able to bring myself to doing it as i can't put something like that on my car without the performance to match.

we can't really complain about other peoples views and opionions as if we all had the exact same tasts and likes then it would be a very boring world, there's nothing wrong with speaking out and saying your point of view.

Its only a problem when you direct those views in an insulting way at a particular person.


whats the old saying

"Horses for Courses"


and i don't see how anyone can look at this thread and honestly decide not to join the Toymods club because of it. there is nothing wrong with showing how you feel and speaking your mind.

its all good unless we make it personal, thats when we get the problems.



I've only been to one event that was organised on this Forum and that was one I organised myself where we went down wisemans ferry ect, few turned up and sure there was cars that showed up that i didn't really like and one or two that i thought were buckets of shit but hey "thats just my opinion" but that doesn't matter as we were all there for one reason and had one thing in common, we loved our cars, we loved working on them, we loved doing them up in our own way and we loved driving them, and thats what a Club is all about.

A Club is a group of people that all have differant opionions and views on Topics yet we all have one thing in Common and thats our love for modified cars HOWEVER THEY ARE MODIFIED.

and not one thing that is said in this thread can change the fact we are all people that love cars. and thats what this club is all about so anything else that is said on the Forum is pointless and means nothing because in the end it just comes down to the CAR's.




Sorry if this is hard to understand and hard to read, English isn't my strong point

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