Originally posted by NISMO_GUY2003
This whole "rice" thing seems to have reached its peak with the popularity of "The Fast & The Furious" movies. Frankly, I loved the cars in the movies as well as the cars in magazines like Import Tuner or Sport Compact Car.


I especially liked extras on F&F (was it TF&TF?) DVD. It showed that guy spend incredible amount of time painting the cars, but can't drive **** ! Perfect ecample of rice.


It all seems to be down to personal choice. Someone might like a wing on a car and say it's aggressive and adds to the car's looks. Another person might say the wing is too large and makes the car look "rice." Who's right?


Big wing on civic will slow it down oh high speeds and also reduce traction for front wheels (ond it's a FWD car!) That's rice by defenition.

 

The term "rice" actually came from when the Japinese (spelling) bike makers came out with fast street bikes. The American Harley riders all thought that there harleys twere the best things in the world and decided to call the new japan bikes rice rockets, crotch rockets, rice, etc. This term has now gone over to cars, but has changed to only cars that try to look fast, but only have a 0-60 of 20.2 seconds and a top speed of 54.
-Rich-