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Old 06-03-2004 | 07:03 AM
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On this forum, I read very often the term rice when talking about tuned S2000s...

Sorry for the stupid question... BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN???

Here in Italy we eat rice !
Old 06-03-2004 | 08:13 AM
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I hope your just being sarcastic, but just in case your not. Rice is not a tuned car, it is a car with things that have no real perfomance value and are almost always ugly. Five foot wings on a front wheel drive, an ehaust tha can be heard 2 miles away at idle, and basicly any thing that changes a cars looks someone some where will not like and most likely call rice. Some people say if it is not jdm it is rice. I hope this helps.
Old 06-03-2004 | 08:22 AM
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It's meant as an insult I believe, but it mainly refers to the useless modding of one's car just to stand out. Please reference the photos found here:

http://www.riceboypage.com/

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Old 06-03-2004 | 01:30 PM
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I have to agree with kyo. Spoiler that are 10 time the size of the car, exhaust that sound like a bike or more like a mopead and body kits that were not meant for the car but were slapped on any ways. It's an insult Rice = bad, race = good
Old 06-03-2004 | 01:52 PM
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It is quite simply a derogatory term, or slang, used as described above: to criticize various aftermarket modifications done to import (non-US made) cars. It derives from the fact that most, if not all, of the Asian countries use rice as a main part of their diet.
Old 06-03-2004 | 06:08 PM
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by mrmophandle
It's meant as an insult I believe, but it mainly refers to the useless modding of one's car just to stand out.
Old 06-03-2004 | 07:18 PM
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they use the word "wild" on this site, for some reason God only knows.

here are a few pages of what you're lookin for

http://forums.s2ki.com/forums/showthread.p...ighlight=wilder
Old 06-03-2004 | 08:04 PM
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Italian Rice = Risotto
These are rice....err.....at least that's what people always say when I drive by.

Old 06-03-2004 | 08:26 PM
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Dixon, you are mistaken! When I see you drive by, I say, "hey, that looks like Dixon".
Old 06-03-2004 | 09:11 PM
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Originally posted by DoDDo
On this forum, I read very often the term rice when talking about tuned S2000s...

Sorry for the stupid question... BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN???

Here in Italy we eat rice !
It means that the white Americans just like to make up terms to racially offend other ethnicities. It's been like that since the start of their existence. I hope I'm not offending anyone, but then again, I'm not making up terms to do so.



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