> > > I first heard this term in chat, too. It's great, because I've been seeing rice-boy cars for years, and I never knew there was a term for the phenomenon. As I understand it, ricers are the people who own those black Honda CRXs with the black tinted windows and the enormous fake exhaust pipes which I keep seeing around Auckland, usually driven by teenage Asian boys. The recipe for a ricer car, at least around here, seems to be:
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> > Take a late-model Japanese car of the type which would normally be owned by housewives and young mothers.
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> > Try desperately to make it look like a stealth bomber crossed with the latest James Bond car, as seen through the warped filter of Asian teenagerhood.
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> > Cover it with ominous stickers proclaiming your evil to the world, then add a line of small cuddly animal toys along the dashboard to *completely* confuse the rest of the population.
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> > Brunnen-"is this right, or is it only a local ricer variation?"G
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> That's new ;)
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> Riceboys (many think this is derogatory, but it's not) are people that put fake go-fast parts on their car. Large exhaust tips welded onto a stock exhaust, huge rear wings that don't generate any downforce, racing stripes, stickers for products that you don't actually have on your car, fake nitrous bottles on the dashboard (hint: If the NOS bottle is on the dashboard, it's fake. NOS should be hidden to avoid troubles with law enforcement and to keep it farther away from the driver should the bottle explode), headlights with blue paint on 'em to look like the HID lamps on the expensive cars, huge wheels, and a car bouncing over every bump because the owner has cut his springs to lower the car, are all hallmarks of the riceboy.
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> It doesn't have to be a japanese car either. Around here, I've seen plenty of mustangs and cavaliers riced out.
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> I particularly enjoy the cars with stickers that are for something that cant' possibly be on the car. I saw a Mustang with a VTEC sticker the other day. VTEC is honda-only ;)

Thanks. I guess ours are a local subspecies, because all the rest of what you say describes them perfectly: the fake go-fast parts, automotive stickers, wheels, and headlights. The common Chinese-New Zealand Ricer, male juvenile, in display plumage.

They are not to be confused with the longer-established Westies, who do the same thing but with really old crappy cars, and wear Metallica t-shirts and black jeans (male) or tie-dyed hippie dresses and ankle boots (female).

Brunnen-"either group would probably hate to be identified with the other"G