I don't think you guys know what rice really means. Putting stickers that are false (A type R badge on a non type R car, a NOS sticker on a car with no NOS, putting K&N sticker on with no K&N product on car) on your car is being rice. Placing non-performance parts that just add weight to your car (eg. some stress bars, spoilers (wings), 8" mufflers, 19" crome rims, outrageous body kits) is also true rice. Making a car look like another more expensive car (adding audi crap to your civic trying to make it look like a true audi). Those crome hubcaps with the fake rotors are serious rice. Saying you can beat such and such car when you clearly can't or claiming things your car cannot do is rice.
Rice has a very large gray area. This stuff can be considerd rice or just trying to be different. Things that fall into this catergory are: Racing seats with 4-point harness (with no intention of ever going racing). Stickers and vynal covering the whole car. Stupid mulitoned homemade pait jobs (ala '70's VW bus). Any crome rims. Most aftermarket 17"+ rims.3" exaust. Altezza (clear) tail lights. Crossdrilled rotors. Too Low lowering springs. Body kits.
Someone replacing there Honda engine with a high hp B18 engine is not a ricer. Adding a supercarger or turbo charger to your car is not being a ricer. Lowering your car (not too much) is not being a ricer. Adding any performance enhancing product is not being a ricer. Not everyone can afford to buy a corvette. People make do with what they can get. Some want a little more zip out of the car they could afford. And don't go saying 4 cylinder cars are rice. An audi 1.8 liter turbocharged 4-banger can easily get over 250 hp with little modification. The new WRX STI 2.5 liter 4 is making 300 hp/ 300 lb/f. WRC cars are making over 600 hp unrestricted (300 hp/550 lb/f restricted) from a turbocharged 2.0 liter. Someone in the NHRA (can't remember who) is suppose to be running a 2.3 liter ford duratec 4 cylinder at over 1,000 hp next year. None of that is rice.
