What is Rice?
This is a perennial question on the Neon Message Boards. Generally, being ‘ricey’ centers around having a lot of Touring style appearance items without any actual performance modifications, but that’s not the whole story. Just adding gargantuan exhaust tips, tall spoilers, multitudinous stickers, ground effects, driving lights, hood pins, huge wheels (and calling them rims), etc. doesn’t automatically mean you are ‘rice’. Style, after all, is a personal thing. Rice is more of an attitude problem. Ricers confuse appearance with reality, and convince themselves that a car that looks fast is fast. Talking the talk without enough performance work to walk the walk is what makes someone a true Riceboy or Ricegirl. The term ‘rice’ itself derives from the predominantly Japanese cars favored by the early trendsetters of this style, and the graphics of untranslatable Asian characters that they often carry. It is not a reference to Asian people in general. 5.1.8 Q: Here is a veritable potpourri o
Generally, being ‘ricey’ centers around having a lot of Touring style appearance items without any actual performance modifications, but that’s not the whole story. Just adding gargantuan exhaust tips, tall spoilers, multitudinous stickers, ground effects, driving lights, hood pins, huge wheels (and calling them rims), etc. doesn’t automatically mean you are ‘rice’. Style, after all, is a personal thing. Rice is more of an attitude problem. Ricers confuse appearance with reality, and convince themselves that a car that looks fast is fast. Talking the talk without enough performance work to walk the walk is what makes someone a true Riceboy or Ricegirl. The term ‘rice’ itself derives from the predominantly Japanese cars favored by the early trendsetters of this style, and the graphics of untranslatable Asian characters that they often carry. It is not a reference to Asian people in general.
