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Rice in that useage was already out by the time of Vanilla ;) Quote:
In the 70s, people bought them, but they wern't cool and were un-american. Hell people thought they caused the rampant inflation and recession in the late 70s to mid 82. But by then, all american cars were total crap and people realized that Japanese cars wern't crap so using rice to describe Japanese cars died. By the early 90s, rice came to mean what it means today - show cars that think they are fast i.e. unfuctional mods, unfunctional go-fast parts, stupid owners, etc. |
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Insert sarcasm here.
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because they were Japaneses and ran on so little fuel, compared to domestics.
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"I personally believe that U.S. Americans called cars rice because
Uh....some people out there in our nation dont have cars. And....uh...I beleive that our cars, like such as in asia, South Africa and...uh...the Iraq, evereywhere, like, such as.... And I beleive that they should... Our cars over here in the U.S. should help the U.S.....uh.... Or should help South africa and should help Iraq and the Asian Countries.... So we will be able to build up our future...for our children" if you dont get it click here
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08-30-2007, 04:27 PM | #29 |
I eat rice.
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Looks are subjective, but an easy way to qualify "rice" is to look at it from a consumer's prospective. Would that "mod" fly in a magazine available to the national consumer. If a magazine editor would laugh at your car, it's probably rice...
Stoke the fire!
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Lol, doesn't that fall under the whole "beauty is in the eye of the beholder thing?". What does the opinion of a magazine editor have to do with anything? Besides their opinions differ widely as well. |
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Quite a few of these existed before the 1st gas crisis (winter of 73/74) and dealers couldn't stock enough 240Z's (some stupid American dealers even stuck vinyl tops on them just to make money...they were a sure sell).
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To me the difference between a ricer and a tuner is that the ricer starts from the skin in and the tuner starts from the inside out. The ricer will tack on big Tupperware bumpers before putting on an intake. The tuner will put on a custom cat back system where the muffler is hidden before lowering his ride. The ricer will put as much shit on his car as he can. The tuner tries to make his ride distinctive with as few major mods as possible.
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Tuner makes about as much sense as ricer IMO. Putting a conical filter on a car does not "tune" the car. Can someone help me as to the background behind the term? I have seen companies such as Saleen with Mustangs referred to as tuners, which seems appropriate. But someone putting an exhaust and an antenna on his yaris does not seem to warrant the same term...
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