ok guys/girls before i start my post lemme just say i didn't know where to post this and i thought the exterior forum would be related closest to the question i am about to ask. and one other thing,i'm not trying to cause trouble,create arguement or controversy an any way shape or form. this is strictly out of curiosity. ok embrace yourself because here we go:what exactly is rice? i hear this term all over the jbo and other car enthusiast sites and from what i gather,it's like a 'forbidden' word so to speak.so what defines rice? and why is it so bad to talk about? i've been roaming around this site for some time now, and i keep seeing that the term 'rice' is a very touchy subject. so what is rice? what defines rice? and why is so bad to talk about? i'm not trying to cause an arguement or online pissing contest, i'm just curious as all. thanx (puts on flame suit, just in case)


People say that what doesn't kill you in this life
will make you stronger. I'm not sure if that is true
or not, but i do know one thing-You have to learn from
it and it has to make you better.......it has to.......

this will be fun to watch

rice is very tasty, especially with chinese food...
seriously though go to ricecop.com look at some pics and you will find out all you need to know.

Some people think its racest to say "rice" because of the Asian connitation. Rice is when you have a big ass alluminum spoiler or pretty much any civic or foreign car that has gaudy crap on it. Like a muffler tip that sounds like and angry bee, just welded onto the stock piping instead of having the complete cat back system. I am sure other people can add onto this list of "rice".

rice is just a term people throw out when they dont like what other people have done to cars. its things like that term that cause this scene to be such crap. granted there are some god awful cars out there but there are so nice ones too that i see get labeled as rice which doesnt make any sense. basically people consider rice to be big over done wings, huge exhaust tips, stick on scoops/vents, lots of decals and vinyl, body kits

cool.you guys are telling me what i wanted to know. and thanx for not flaming me, i was just curious. i never used the term in any post up until now, and i don't plan to use it again. so it's basically a car that has just random parts thrown on a car to make it look 'distasteful' so to speak,like there was no plan in mind . i was thinking it was more along the lines of say for example a '92 civic, w/ heated and cut springs, huge double decker aluminum wing w/ no body kit, painted black hood, stock steelies w/ no hub caps, and a loud and raspy muffler w/ a really big tip. but that's cool. if this thread is offending anyone, by all means have a moderator lock this. i was just curious for a long time and i got the nerve to ask.


People say that what doesn't kill you in this life
will make you stronger. I'm not sure if that is true
or not, but i do know one thing-You have to learn from
it and it has to make you better.......it has to.......

pic I made a long time ago


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The term rice pisses me off ridiculously. Given, I can understand it sometimes when you see Civics going down the road with 20 stickers on it of parts it is not even using, a huge spoiler, angry-bee exhaust (GREAT example by the way ), and so on. The people that actually put on nice kits and put time into making their cars look nice STILL get s*it from people being called ricers cause of the above mentioned people.

My friend calls me a ricer all the time and it pisses me off. I've put over 1K into looks so far and I haven't done body kit or rims yet. Just new interior, lights, tails, etc. He calls me a ricer, yet he has neon lights in his car and says his is "clean", and thats what makes the difference.

What annoys me the most are the muscle car people that CONSTANTLY bag on the import guys about how their cars aren't fast. I swear, muscle-car enthusiasts act like the car world is a pissing contest and that they all have to see whos d*ck is bigger to be happy. If someone obviously wanted a drag car or something fast from the start, they would go for a Mustang GT, Corvette, TA, Camaro, etc. The whole point of the import-scene is to take an average everyday car and customize it to your liking either it be power or looks . . .

*turns off rant*

rice (n.) A cereal grass (Oryza sativa) that is cultivated extensively in warm climates for its edible grain.

rice (n.) The starchy grain of this plant, used as a staple food throughout the world.

rice (v.) To sieve (food) to the consistency of rice.

rice (adj.) Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancement. Commonly used to describe "poser" cars that look really fast but really aren't.

Think of ricer cars kind of like WWE wrestlers. They look really tough but they can't fight worth a sh*t.




Be kind to dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

have you seen the new VW golf GTI commercials? the cars the destroy are perfict examples of "rice"......my favorite commercials on tv right now!!

I'll be honest, I don't like it either. I'm more of the guy that would rather build a sleeper out of something never thought of as fast, and beat the crap out of the Mustangs and Camaros. But at the same time, I love the look of a JDM conversion on a Civic. I think 240SXs look absolutely sick when they're done up for drifting. AE86s with carbon fiber hoods and coilovers on old school 15" SSRs appeal to me. And even the Scion TC with a spoiler and huge exhaust tip (attached t oa huge exhaust, of course) looks good to me. To each his own, and if you don't like it, don't drive it. Don't ride in it, don't wrench on it. I say do what you want. F*ck opinions. Everyone has one, incliding me, but none of them matter.


Be kind to dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

I personally classify "rice" as when someone throws EVERYTHING they can at their car just because it's on the market and/or without regard for how things will end up looking as a whole (kinda like this Riceboy website example - link to which can be found on here in the library)...





It's been said many times before by many different people, but I'll say it again anyway. For the love of God, have a PLAN for your car before you start! My car is still pretty much stock, but I have the plan set for it and I'm saving up the money... to do it right... the first time. That's just what I think is going to work out best for my situation.

Of course, this isn't directed at anyone in particular, and I appreciate the fact that each of us has to do what he/she wants and thinks will look good. However, extreme examples like the one above do tend to take the credibility of the entire sport compact community down in my opinion.

Aight, I'm done venting now.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Rice

1. rice

An automobile that has been equipped with gawdy, unnesecary accessories, such as 3' high spoilers, loud and/or repulsive paint job and body work. Owners of such automobiles feel that these accessories

That Prelude over there is nice, but this here Civic ain't nothin but a ric mobile


2. rice

Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements. (R.I.C.E.)Parts put on cars to make them look fast, when they have no internal tuning, and are actually slow as hell. Parts usually consist of excessivley angular bodykits, large rear spoilers, neon, sponsor stickers, chrome rims, fake "coffee can" exhaust tips, and loud, annoying paint jobs and/or vynils. Sometimes parts are do-it-yourself installed and are basically duct taped to the car. Most commonly known for being done to Honda Civics, but can also be done to slow domestic vehicles, such as a Chevy Cavalier, etc.

"Yo dog, did you see the Civic that guy was rollin' in? it was so rice."

"This guy's got nothin' under the hood, it's just rice. Smoke him."

"What a riceboy, I bet he thinks his neon adds 50 bhp!"

Topsub wrote:this will be fun to watch

I used to love my 1995 forumla firebird but when I got my cavy I just liked the over all car better.I would whomp on my gas a little bit in my formula and it would drain dramitcaly , I felt like I was driving a boat.

IMO it's anything with 4 cylinders. (to me anything with 4 cylinders is only half a motor)




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ALL SHOW, NO GO! = RICE.

Pretty much the kids out there....who want to make things LOOK Cool but TRY WAY TO HARD. If you like show over performance....thats fine..but some people go wayyyyyyyyyy over board on show...Back to the term RICER!!....

Firstcar24....wow....I would agree..but there is just something with being able to get 300+ hp out of a 4cyl. motor thats pretty damn cool to me...but then again im just GM Ricer lol

A ricer is a 91 Honda Accord with rusted out quarter panels, giant aluminum whale tail from Autozone, coffee can muffler big enough for a bowling ball, rectangular yellow fog lights, and chopped springs.

A kid in a Mustang suggested my Cavy was a "Wheat eater" as opposed to a ricer. I bet he felt silly when he saw my taillights halfway down the strip, and he was still sitting on the line.

i have to post this one!! Rice is this one car (unknown as of now) around the years of 80-85 (or pimp mobile) with gawdy hub cap spinners with half of them broken off, a rattlecan paint job, a "performance muffler" aka a stock muffler is a huge hol drilled into it. Then on top of that it cut his owen sunroof (still in progress lol and its winter) and a what seems to be a 2' aluminum spoiler. Its really a sight to see lol oh and it has a nos sticker, aem sticker, and a bunch of other ones. oh and i almost of got the good part! he cheeped out on window tinting and he used spray paint!! i need to find it once again when i have my digital and snap a picture or two.

Blas Garay wrote:ALL SHOW, NO GO! = RICE.

Pretty much the kids out there....who want to make things LOOK Cool but TRY WAY TO HARD. If you like show over performance....thats fine..but some people go wayyyyyyyyyy over board on show...Back to the term RICER!!....

Your a fool. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH ALL SHOW. Show cars show style, some people dont want to be the fastest thing out on the road.

And how are you supose to make things look cool ? Put a fitted NY yankee hat over your muffler?

Who are you to judge who takes their car to far in the looks catagory. So i guess meckster, mulls evil z , 1 hot z (mark), the list goes on .... are just ricers?

AHAHHAHA please .

Im driving a semi ricey ricer ricemobile myself that i bought after i totalled my cavy. The exhaust is catback, so its none to quiet even when im cruising. Other than being lowered and running on 17's it looks stock. This seems to get the american muscle all hyped up, and in the couple weeks ive owned the car, ive had to slap a mustang, firebird, and0 two camaros and an integra, probably a gsr back down to where they belong. Yes I know the integra is not american muscle. In case you are going to call some BS i drive a 94 lude with an h22a swap and a score of goodies under tthe hood for gods sakes dont make me list them. Regardless, i never got any crap from american sports cars in my cavvy, even though it had a full kit, cf hood, ETC.

A fast car is a fast car, a good looking car is a good looking car,I really dont care what country it came from. Its offensive that the term rice was ever concieved, same goes with wheateater and all that crap. I dont see why it matters where your whip comes from as long as you love it. Car parts are manufactured in like twelve thousand countries anyway.

.JerseyKid. wrote:

Blas Garay wrote:ALL SHOW, NO GO! = RICE.

Pretty much the kids out there....who want to make things LOOK Cool but TRY WAY TO HARD. If you like show over performance....thats fine..but some people go wayyyyyyyyyy over board on show...Back to the term RICER!!....

Your a fool. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH ALL SHOW. Show cars show style, some people dont want to be the fastest thing out on the road.

And how are you supose to make things look cool ? Put a fitted NY yankee hat over your muffler?

Who are you to judge who takes their car to far in the looks catagory. So i guess meckster, mulls evil z , 1 hot z (mark), the list goes on .... are just ricers?

AHAHHAHA please .

i think you miss read what he meant. he said all show is fine but what i think he means is people that are all show that try and act like their cars fast because it looks fast. i for one dont do that. i know my car isnt fast and in the end its still a pos econobox cav but i dont try to race people and glorify my car. i think thats what he means

rice came form back in the day when people were called "rice-burners". they put rice in their exhaust and it made a loud pop. typically asians but not necessarily.