Rice...what is it...how can you tell...what should you do?

Teal_93 · Post by **Teal_93** » January 18th, 2005, 4:30 pm

Well here there is a kid driveing a Ford Festiva painted hunter green with yellow polka dots all over it & 2 aluminum wings on top of it.

93SOHC · Post by **93SOHC** » January 19th, 2005, 1:32 am

its probably a joke though. When I had my 93 GL, the guys at my work taped a huge cardboard wind up key to my hatch while I was at lunch...lol

fry_81 · Post by **fry_81** » January 19th, 2005, 7:17 am

93SOHC wrote:its probably a joke though. When I had my 93 GL, the guys at my work taped a huge cardboard wind up key to my hatch while I was at lunch...lol

lol ahaha thats awsome

93SOHC · Post by **93SOHC** » January 19th, 2005, 12:28 pm

yeah, I wasn't offended at all, it looke hillarious. Festivas rule!!!

Sam Baker · Post by **Sam Baker** » January 19th, 2005, 3:12 pm

ok.. the stickers have got to end. if you have huge Kenwood stickers on your doors/windows/anywhere.. what will people think about your car? -- oh he's got a nice stereo, i'm gonna jack it and then he'll have to take those stickers off!

Teal_93 · Post by **Teal_93** » January 19th, 2005, 4:04 pm

That is one thing I never understood. If you have say for instance an ALPINE or JL Audio sticker isn't that just advertising "HEY come steal me I'm waiting here in this car for you to take" & mess my vehicle up while your at it.

Or in my dumb a-- brother in law's case why don't you just go all over town showing everyone what you have in your trunk so a day or 2 later someone can come jack it & mess up your trunk. So not only do you have money lost in equipment, you also have to pay to fix your car.

Acamori · Post by **Acamori** » January 20th, 2005, 7:11 pm

personally, i think rice is simply trying to make a car appear to be high performance without acctually making it so, and adding various kits/parts for the sole purpose of looking similar to other fast cars. i also think that upgrading a car's engine for the sake of looks over the sake of performance (paying alot to have someone else put performance parts on a car to make it faster without a true desire to drive faster than others) is rice.

body kits, depends, i don't really like big aggressive kits on anything, but when done right they're alright. stickers are definately rice after a point. having stickers for parts you don't acctually have is rice, and plastering 30+% of a car with stickers (of any kind) i consider rice. giant, pointless, useless, annoying exhast pipes are an epitome of rice. as are adding lights EVERYWHERE on a car (underbody + 6 foglights + interior neon + ...) i mean, good headlights are all you really need, plus MAYBE some driving lights to give more coverage at high speed.

i could probably think of more, but that's enough.

Juans_93_MX3 · Post by **Juans_93_MX3** » January 20th, 2005, 7:35 pm

Stickers still look stupid and ugly on cars even with a sponser

Nd4SpdSe · Post by **Nd4SpdSe** » January 20th, 2005, 8:01 pm

/me looks at his Mx-3.com sticker

Post by **MX-3.com** » January 20th, 2005, 8:08 pm

You better not be dissing those MX-3.com decals!!!!!

cduBBz'915 · Post by **cduBBz'915** » January 20th, 2005, 9:17 pm

LOL

all of you.......BUSTED!! LMAO

93SOHC · Post by **93SOHC** » January 21st, 2005, 12:51 am

Stickers can get a bit outta control I believe, but as long as they are important and subtle, like my "mx-3.com" banner its okay

. Its all a matter of taste, and over kill is bad unless yer talkin' performance mods!

93SOHC · Post by **93SOHC** » January 21st, 2005, 2:35 pm

this is a little off the subject, but if anyone wants to make the epitome of rice on Need for speed underground2, it'd be cool to see, i'm doin it tonight, plus i'll past a pic of my rx-7 sleeper-Jay

MarkMoore · Post by **MarkMoore** » January 22nd, 2005, 10:15 am

where/how did the term "rice" originate?

Post by **MX-3.com** » January 22nd, 2005, 10:33 am

I think if you read some of the links in this post you migth get a good idea.

http://www.mx-3.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.ph ... 210#240210