WHY RICE?

[RPM240]

i just want to know if anyone knows why they call it rice... i mean i use the term "rice" its funny, but the thing is it sounds deragatory to azn's, i've seen alot worse done to cars.  why isn't it like spanish rice or something like that or white rice, i mean that makes more sense... please humor me... where did the term come from you think...make me laugh.

thanks ppl

[RPM240]

oh yeah, this is just to amuse me... i dont really care, i just want to know ppls opinions

[vancouvers14]

the first time i heard the reference, it was used as "rice rocket", meaning a fast (or fast-looking japanese car).  it was considered derogatory to japanese cars (not japanese ppl) because it would be referring to a wanna-be fast car.  for example, when someone soups up a toyota tercel, that would be a rice-rocket, because, obviously the car is not a rocket (except on the way to the trash heap)

[RPM240]

thanks, thats a good answer

[RPM240]

ohhh a hooked up tercel... my dream car
good answer

[dave2u]

So ricers are only the older ,slower Jap cars that are crap but trying to be one of the more quality jap cars?
Like getting a family nissan etc and putting tacky stickers and mods on it?
If so i saw one over here whilst at a carpark. Does this qualify? Old tatty Celica with aftermarket old fashioned biggerbore exhaust that i swear stuck out a foot at the back of the car. I nearly fell over the bloody thing it stuck out so far!

if you see a mexican driving a really crappy car its called mexican rice if you see a puerto rican in a beat up toy tryna be fast its arros y guandule
if its a white person in a beat up or wanna be fast honda shitvic its uncle bens (domestic rice)

[ca18guy]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from dave2u on 3:59 pm on Oct. 28, 2001
So ricers are only the older ,slower Jap cars that are crap but trying to be one of the more quality jap cars?
Like getting a family nissan etc and putting tacky stickers and mods on it?
If so i saw one over here whilst at a carpark. Does this qualify? Old tatty Celica with aftermarket old fashioned biggerbore exhaust that i swear stuck out a foot at the back of the car. I nearly fell over the bloody thing it stuck out so far!
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Rice can be any car with pointless gawdy &quot;modifications&quot;

[azn guy]

Yeah I know, rice makes it sound like us AZNs are the ricers, but we are actually the ones who started the whole import thing.

[BlankFlip]

on the other hand rice is boring, plain, it doesn't stand out, nothing to get any attention (i'm talking about actual white rice or how rice looks before u cook it, i actually eat it like everyday cuz i was raised that way n i'm used to it). so why does it refer to stuff that is stupid and stands out and that isn't needed on ur car?

[MingMing]

rice is derived from rice rocket, which awhile ago, to me sounded like a good term
rocket means fast, rice means its powered by azns..
but before FnF, and DEFINITELY after, ppl have been too lazy to actually make their car perform, and just TRY to bite off the real &quot;rice rockets&quot;, except lacking the rocket area... ... thus.. just rice
they have the spoiler, cherrybomb, and stickers everywhere, but probably using a b16 with 111 torque to power it all...

[BlueSix]

Rice Rocket or Rice Burner is used a lot in reference to Japanese sportbikes... Usually its used as a derogatory term by big tough guys on Harley's that cost 3x as much as my bike and don't come anywhere close to the quality of production or performance... &nbsp;So it doesn't really bother me.. I know that I have more fun riding for 1/3 the price, plus I wear a helmet so if I ever get in a wreck my brains wont explode on the concrete like theirs will now that they removed the helmet law in FL... All the Harley riders have nothin but shades.. O well.

[my240likenoother]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from BlueSix on 9:15 pm on Oct. 28, 2001
Rice Rocket or Rice Burner is used a lot in reference to Japanese sportbikes... Usually its used as a derogatory term by big tough guys on Harley's that cost 3x as much as my bike and don't come anywhere close to the quality of production or performance... So it doesn't really bother me.. I know that I have more fun riding for 1/3 the price, plus I wear a helmet so if I ever get in a wreck my brains wont explode on the concrete like theirs will now that they removed the helmet law in FL... All the Harley riders have nothin but shades.. O well.</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>

i would rather ride without a helmet so if i do crash i will die and not be a f*cked up veg. all me life haveing someone wipe my a** brush my teeth dress me feed me i would rather die than haveing to live with that

[vancouvers14]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from azn guy on 6:46 pm on Oct. 28, 2001
Yeah I know, rice makes it sound like us AZNs are the ricers, but we are actually the ones who started the whole import thing.
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Well, the import thing started well before the large influx of Asian immigrants to North America. &nbsp;It started in the 70s when gas prices started to soar, and ppl began to give up their monster v8s. &nbsp;The Japanese had more/better compacts so they started to catch on. &nbsp;

As for souping up Japanese cars in North America, asian ppl were part of it, but they didn't start it.

[rubbersidedown]

i thought the whole &quot;rice&quot; term referred to the japanse because rice is a big thing over there. its a large crop or something. i may be mistaken. I seem to remember those old war movies where they have the orientals working in the rice fields/patties, or whatever.

[drifterx]

I AM THE RICE KING ... i can out eat anyone here... especially rice =)

i think it came from the rice rocket term
and i am asian and i dont find it as an offense but i also use the term
hey it is true, all asians eat &quot;is&quot; rice... i dont find it as an offense when ppl call ppl who drive with stickers, &quot;rice&quot;
hmmm and as for the spanish crap boxes... ppl here call them s*** cars (and the answer is not shit) i dont agree with the term so i like the mexican rice idea

[rubbersidedown]

i'm saying. that rice was the term used to describe any japanese made car or streetbike. wether you call something a &quot;rice rocket&quot; a &quot;rice burner&quot; or whatever other name you can think up. the &quot;rice&quot; is added in because the car is japanese. that's what i've heard, and it kinda makes sense.

Those rice kids (mostly Asians, at least around here) call their own cars rice rockets so it probably wasn't meant by them to be an offensive term. &quot;Got rice?&quot; is obviously not meant to sound offensive. It's one of those &quot;Asian Pride&quot; slogans. But of course they seem to like their rice cars for the same reasons that many people dislike them (giant wings, muffler tips, etc, etc, etc). So &quot;rice&quot; can be used either way I guess. It has a good connotation to some people and bad to others. So why &quot;rice&quot;? I'll bet the &quot;Asian Pride&quot; people were the ones who first started using the term, at least when associating the word with cars. Just my theory. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

[BlankFlip]

(Edited by BlankFlip at 10:58 pm on Oct. 28, 2001)

[BlankFlip]

(Edited by BlankFlip at 5:39 pm on Nov. 14, 2001)

[misnomer]

BlueSix got it right, rice rocket was originally referring to Japanese sport bikes, it's evolved since then to include cars. Nowadays it's to refer to tastelessly modified vehicles, regardless of thier country of origin. Everybody seems to have their own definition, so I'mma leave it at that :-)

As far as &quot;Got Rice&quot; goes, I hope you're not referring to that lamess song. It's offensive, rude, and makes Asians sound like pussies. Other than that, cultur0x <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'>

(Edited by misnomer at 10:23 pm on Oct. 28, 2001)

[BlankFlip]

i agree. what about &quot;rice burner&quot; though, same concept pretty much?

[misnomer]

Same thing. And for the record, if the rice ain't fried, &nbsp;it's just plain and bland :-)

[BlankFlip]

that's what i hear most ppl say, they're usually like &quot;that's just way to plain for me to eat all the time.&quot; i eat white rice w/ like a whole lot of stuff, when i'm not eating fast food or microwavable stuff. i'm so used to it though, guess it's a good habit that my mom got me on growing up though.

[bing]

i'd say &quot;rice&quot; is a term to describe acar with terribly distasteful mods, ext or int or performance, if some dude puts a stupid kit and sticker on a civic, and has a huge blower out the hood, a 170db stereo all kenwood, then that be some ricey shit i dont care if it does the 1/4 in 7 seconds or what ev.

hahahah a 7 second civic, i should erase that and put something possible

[IceTekGuy]

excuse the comming language....

&quot; Got rice bitch, got rice, got food, got soup, got spice?
got got cars like us, got clothes like us, got girls like us? shit no.... yadda yadda&quot;

this term obviously means EVERYTHING asian, according to AZN Pride, the group...

now, i eat asian rice EVERY #### day, and it tastes alot better than [email protected] potatoes... im White, but my dads Ex-Wife, and the lady he is married to now were and are asian (lao, thai)... so i dont even need to go to asian restaurants, anymore... lol


RICE ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!

[misnomer]

hehe, it's all what you're raised on. My dad is an awesome cook, so I never really had a staple food, just a little bit of everything. I s'pose that's why they call it rice, though. . . It is kinda tasteless <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'> Then again so are potatoes, noodles, and plastic. . . Too many syllables for my lazy ass to say on a regular basis. Imma stick w/ calling it &quot;rice&quot;

I hope that made sense. . .

[Archangel]

I'm not trying to start an argument, believe me, I like rice alot, and I eat it quite often.
But IceTekGuy, I gotta stick up for potatoes.
I love potatoes, made just about every way (I guess that's the Irish in me <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'> )

Oh, and i think the term rice did come from the old terms &quot;rice rocket&quot; and &quot;rice burner&quot;, but I think the term rice fits rather well (not sure why).

(Edited by Archangel at 1:43 am on Oct. 29, 2001)

[BlankFlip]

my mom's filipino so i get the rice from her, n my dad is pretty much irish so i get the potatoes from him, i love them both, never get tired of them. n i guess this thread makes sense to me now, (white) rice = no taste, like ricers have no taste in what they should really do w/ their car, n the whole asian thing 2. i do think white rice tastes good though, it's my fav. kind of rice, #### i just had steak n rice for dinner tonight.

[bing]

i got u all beat...

my family owns the best and oldest remsining chinese food restaurant in the Niagara region, we got rice and even french fries.........

i swear ive had more french fries than anyone my age in the world.
oh yeah, i get the food for free when ever i want, i even have a key to the place, 1 of 4 keys on my chain.

i can have rice, chow-mein, egg-foo-yung, chicken balls, curry chicken, dai-top-voi, honey ribs, fried rice, steamed, and my personal invention...

deep fried bacon, fresh egg, steamed rice, and fried rice all stir fried and add water to make it moist and sticky and hot as ####................oh yeah..........mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmm, i worked there for over a year in the kitchen....

im the riciest dude in here, though having nothing to do with my 240

[S13Grl]

If we all come visit you, can we have free food?

[dave2u]

Why do you all deride the Honda civic then?
Whats that rice or pasta or maybe a potatoe?
I think i`m getting it now!

[rabbit23]

i've posted a simular question, i think it is derrogative, i am white and my girlfriend who is chinese doesn't mind. wierd isn't it. although in the south i am surrounded by closed minded redneck racist bastards who give me dirty looks cause my girl isn't white, so i am a little more sensative i think. but rice rocket did start with the sport bikes. Since all japanese cars sold in america are now made in america and american cars are made in mexico which are domestics and imports now?? &nbsp;

[bing]

free food eh, s13grl,

i dunno, i guess ur kinda cute, but i already have a sexy lady.

maybe if you give me ur car me can talk

[S13Grl]

Hey, I wasn't gonna come alone and I just asked for free food, not anything else! And I'm not giving my car to anyone (unless I get a '97-'98 in return). There! Hmph!

[vancouvers14]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">u gotta admit though that the ppl in north america probably copied the ppl over in japan for souping up the imports, so i guess the asians could be said to of &quot;started&quot; the import scene. ricer cars seems to be a trademark of north america though, from what i've seen. trust me, u'll pretty much notice the ricer cars a lot more in the usa and not so much in japan, but that's probably b/c u can buy ur silvia k's w/ the sr20det in it cheaper than here n not even have to consider getting a honda civic. most of the people here that have ricer cars happen to be white (i'm half white, so i'm not offending nobody), then again, i am in a small area in nc, so not a lot of ppl from all over the world wanna exactly come n live their lives here.</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>

Just remember everyone, the term rice refers to the car, not the person inside.

Also, if you see cars in Japan, they're nothing like the cars here. &nbsp;There is very little influence in souping up a civic from the ppl in Japan. &nbsp;I've never seen a souped up civic or integra in Japan. &nbsp;What I do see are souped up minivans, mini-pickups, etc. &nbsp;

I think the ppl here are more influenced bby the hot-rodders than by anyone else.

[RPM240]

hey ppl, thanks for the answers, they're funny. &nbsp;I hope you every got cleared up on the term rice, i did...

it seems like to different ppl it means different things...thers not just one definition and for the sake of the word &quot;rice&quot; will always just be &quot;RICE&quot;

[azn guy]

#### yeah we started it all, cuz when all the Americans were driving hot rods, we were already hooking up Japanese cars in Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, etc..., and you guys didn't start til much much later, &nbsp;So I can state as a fact that asians started it all.

[vancouvers14]

americans were souping up cars since the 1930's.

show me a souped up car from the 60's or 70's in asia...
you won't find one. &nbsp;hot rodding started in north america. &nbsp;don't fool yourself. &nbsp;you can take credit for the giant wings and stickers if you want though.....

[91CRXsiR]

rice i think is just adding &quot;useless&quot; stuff to a car that makes it &quot;distasteful&quot; to the norm...


now if adding a set of 20' rims on a car.. i personally would consider that RICEY .. b/c it does nothing for the car cept make it slower..

adding a body-kit... oooooh pure RICE..
stickers.. etc.. RICE..
so if you guys really want to stay clear of RICE dont try to make your car look better.. b/c its always going to come out to be RICE to somebody.

i've come from many msg boards... honda/toyota and now nissan...

i've learn this from my experiences... when you fix up your car a certain way.. everyone crits you... BUT if you make your car.. like SHOWROOM clean or JDM .. everybody is licking your toes... why is that?.. i still dont know..

oh yea. about the comment about tercels... haha i've seen some fastass tercels out there.. w/ Japanese engine swaps of course

[BlankFlip]

(Edited by BlankFlip at 5:40 pm on Nov. 14, 2001)

[vancouvers14]

i didn't say there were less hooked up cars. &nbsp;i said there weren't any civics and integras. &nbsp;ppl soup up estinas, lucidas, wagon r's, rvr, s-mx lowdown, truenos, levins, blitzens, etc.
never seen a souped up civic there. &nbsp;lots of other souped up cars. &nbsp;and there are very few 250 hp cars there. &nbsp;the expensive ones are, but the afforadble cars are 50 hp and ppl struggle to get them to 150 hp.

[Chokudori]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from dave2u on 3:59 pm on Oct. 28, 2001
So ricers are only the older ,slower Jap cars that are crap but trying to be one of the more quality jap cars?
Like getting a family nissan etc and putting tacky stickers and mods on it?
If so i saw one over here whilst at a carpark. Does this qualify? Old tatty Celica with aftermarket old fashioned biggerbore exhaust that i swear stuck out a foot at the back of the car. I nearly fell over the bloody thing it stuck out so far!
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Just so you know, the term &quot;jap&quot; is not a very nice thing to use. If you need to abbreviate, please use &quot;Jpn&quot;. Thanks. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

[azn guy]

I did say hot rods started in America, but I am saying hooking up imports started in Asia. &nbsp;Where do you think you would find the first hooked up import?<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'>?? &nbsp;ASIA!!!! &nbsp;

[S13Grl]

Exactly!!! I don't think anyone here is racist, we just use wrong words sometimes. Can you guys please stop arguing and don't respond to this topic anymore, it's getting frustrating. Go donate to my relief fund or something, stop arguing!

[azn guy]

I am sorry, S13grl, I just can't stand some stupid ass telling me that imports tuning started in the US. &nbsp;So I just have to make one more reply. &nbsp;I spent two minutes finding an article on the history of hooking up imports, and this is something I saw:
&quot;Contradictory to Romero's history, Miyoshi notes that it was mainly third generation, Sansei, Japanese Americans in the Los Angeles area who started fixing up their Japanese cars. In the 1980s, groups called Shoreline and Paradise made up of Japanese American males from Gardena, a city in the Los Angeles area, modified their Toyota Corollas or &quot;paradise cruisers.&quot; They followed the style of &quot;souping&quot; up cars in Japan by referring to Japanese car magazines and ordering car parts from Japan to modify their cars. The Import scene gained a wider audience and recognition in 1988 when the first Import car was featured in a popular car magazine, Sport Compact Car. &quot;
Did you read that, Vancouver?<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'> &nbsp;THEY BOUGHT AFTER MARKET PARTS FROM JAPAN, that proves it did start over there.
Oh, here is some more:
&quot;Another manner in which Asianness is asserted is the conscious choice by members of Import car teams to have an Asian name (usually written in Chinese) or to make it sound Asian. &nbsp;For example, some notable team names in the Bay Area are Z. Team Yossi, Team Hokori, Jetspeed, and Gridline. The stylization of the Roman alphabet to resemble Chinese characters are evident in Import car magazines and &nbsp;fliers for Import events. The Import subculture also shares the sexist overtones of other car cultures with female models posing on top of cars in magazines and at car shows. Notable however is the use of mainly Asian American models and not white models that dominate our media today. These examples are explicit displays of Asian characteristics in the construction of the Import subculture. &nbsp;&quot;
And here is my favorite line I saw in there:
&quot;The act of owning and buying a Japanese car is an act against the dominant white American ideology and patriotism&quot;
I just can't stand some white guy telling me imports started in the states, which is a completely stupid idea. &nbsp;
And don't fucking tell me &quot;AZN can take credit for just the stickers and spoilers&quot;, we will take credit for all the imports shit, cuz we started it, and ppl who started in later on in the states were the young AZN americans, and you guys just into that shit pretty much recently. &nbsp;If you are gonna make fucking comments about AZN, don't fucking drive our cars, and go back to those #### Mustangs. &nbsp;
I hope you are not stupid enough to come back and tell me hot rods started in India =)
Oh, two more words, AZN PRIDE!!!

[S13Grl]

Hey, I agree with that. Japanese cars kick ass!!! I love my little Japanese car. And yeah... ok. Enough arguing!!! We're all people, and we all like cars. Let's just enjoy it, please?

[BlankFlip]

(Edited by BlankFlip at 5:41 pm on Nov. 14, 2001)

[azn guy]

Vancouver is an idiot, he would never understand.

[misnomer]

Geeze, azn guy, chill out.

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Nowhere did he say Americans were doing imports before Asians, he said cars in general, and in my limited education, I'd agree with him.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">And here is my favorite line I saw in there:
&quot;The act of owning and buying a Japanese car is an act against the dominant white American ideology and patriotism&quot; </td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>

That line is absolute bullshit, at least in my region. Whats the date on that article? Nowadays just as many vehicles from Japanese companies are made in the US as American cars. Nobody around here I know gives a shit whether you drive a Saturn or Civic. It just doesn't matter anymore. Try to see past your anger, read more thoroughly, and most of all stop being a racist prick. You're giving my Asian friends a bad name. How would you know Vancouver is white? Why the #### does it matter? Grow up kid.

[BlankFlip]

none of this is worth arguing about neway, let's just end it n get back to our usual sr20det n turbo kit stuff.

[azn guy]

This is what pissed me off in the first place:
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you can take credit for the giant wings and stickers if you want though.....
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Also, I was talking about how AZN started the whole &quot;Import thing&quot;, so why the #### is he talking about Domestic cars?? &nbsp;I just misunderstood him, but he was an idiot, because that american car thing poped out of nowhere.

[BlankFlip]

i didn't like that u can take credit for the giant wings and stickers cuz who is neone to put that on asians. but i also didn't like how u came back n reacted to everything n all. this is all cuz of that #### RICE term that i hate so much, if a car is stupid looking then it's stupid looking.

[vancouvers14]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from azn guy on 11:59 am on Nov. 1, 2001
Vancouver is an idiot, he would never understand.
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this is my point: &nbsp;no shit ppl in japan have been souping up japanese cars longer in japan. &nbsp;here, that isn't the case. &nbsp;it was white, brown, black, and asian ppl that did it here.

as for the personal insults, your a clown cause you know nothing about me. &nbsp;yes i'm white (yugoslavian), but i speak mandarin and i can understand some japanese too. &nbsp;i probably know more about asian history than you ever will too. &nbsp;have you even been to japan? &nbsp;do you even own a car? &nbsp;are you even old enough to drive? &nbsp;its hard to tell when someone has to get facts from the always-correct-internet instead of from personal experience.

as for driving &quot;your cars&quot;, unless you're japanese, its not your car either. &nbsp;and besides, 95% of all japanese cars are made by hard-working americans of every color on this side of the water.

and blankflip, all i said was that nobody soups up civics and integras there, so mentioning pulsars and silvias doesn't prove me wrong at all.

[BlankFlip]

i understand the civic n integra thing u said, u just made it sound like nobody souped up cars over 250hp n just did it 2 the &quot;crappier&quot; cars, in my opinion. they're 2 smart over there 2 rice out a civic. sorry, i do agree w/ u there though, just meant to say that there r a lot of nice jdm cars there that get souped up, not all like lowrider or pimp type of cars. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

[S13Grl]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from vancouvers14 on 3<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':0'>0 pm on Nov. 1, 2001
yes i'm white (yugoslavian), but i speak mandarin and i can understand some japanese too.
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Hey, I didn't know you were Yugoslavian! And I've wanted to smack you over the head all along, lol <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>.

[S13Grl]

Oh, and as for this topic, it's getting a little out of hand. You guys should honestly stop.

[Chokudori]

No!!! we won't stop!!! &nbsp;<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'>
anyway... I'd say that fixing up cars to race started somewhere in Europe. Import street racing scene started in the San Fernando Valley.

And here's my theory onr suped up civics.
Modified civics are usually done be teenagers. Teen agers who has to have their car bough by their parent. Now these parent are not going to go out and buy them sports cars. Sports cars cost more, and the insurance for teenage drivers are extremely high. They are going to look for the most reliable economic cars. Honda civic, Toyota corolla, and Nissan sentra comes to their mind. Coming from my experience, most of the asian parent seems to think that Honda and Toyota makes the most reliable cars. When the teenagers came to choosing either a Civic or a Corolla, they seemed to have prefered the Civic. And so the trend for Civics came into play.

[S13Grl]

LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA

What do you guys think I should wear to work tomorrow; a black shirt and blue jeans or black pants and a baby-blue shirt?

[Chokudori]

well, since you're a girl. I doubt you will listen to any advice made from guys about dressing.

[S13Grl]

Guys opinions matter, they look at us way more than we look at ourselves.

[Chokudori]

Yeah, but.. I thought guy's don't know how to dress? <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'>

####, you sure do reply fast.

[BlankFlip]

off topic?

[ca18guy]

S13Grl : wear the black shirt with jean's.

Chokudori : Can I hear why you think &quot;fixing up cars to race started somewhere in Europe. Import street racing scene started in the San Fernando Valley&quot;

[BlankFlip]

i don't c why ya'll r mad over ppl arguing in stuff like this, they're just trying to prove some points, just like u might be trying to prove a point that arguing is wrong n we shouldn't do it here, but i can c why it can be tiring if they take it 2 far, but i don't c nething wrong w/ this.

[dave2u]

Hey ya could sell a holiday to me like that <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'>

[vancouvers14]

this topic is stupid. &nbsp;all i'm doing is making a few points, and azn guy wants to turn it into some asian-bashing thing which is so not true. &nbsp;i've got friends of every color of the rainbow. &nbsp;and if i think back to my old neighborhood, the first souped up import car i remember was a black guy with an old 510, and that was 20 years ago. &nbsp;ppl of every color soup up cars, and asians didn't start it.

bring facts, and leave your other crap at home. &nbsp;you wanna be a dick and throw around &quot;asian pride&quot; everywhere? &nbsp;do you want other ppl throwing around &quot;white power&quot; and &quot;black power&quot;?

anyways. &nbsp;[/rant]

btw s13grl, does the fact that i'm yugoslavian make you want to hit me more or less? &nbsp;curious...

[240sxtreme]

dang....I've been out of it for a few days and I gotta bring an extinguisher with me??!!
&nbsp;ok...about the &quot;jap&quot; thing.....we don't need to get all bent out of shape...it was started in WWII, and it is derogative(spelling?), if someone doesn't know, and you tell them, they learn...it's all about education. &nbsp;kinda like when I called a guy &quot;n*****&quot; when I was a kid...and my Mom got all mad at me...I had no idea what it meant, I thought that's what African-Americans where called...saw it in a movie.... &nbsp;
&nbsp;And as for it being old and not meaning the same thing....it does....talk to my Grandpa who refuses to buy any car made by them &quot;***&quot;, who killed his friends....doesn't matter that we then used atom bombs on their innocent children. &nbsp;I'm still trying to figure out if I should introduce him to my Japanes Girlfriend who I've been living with for the last 2-3 years and will probably marry.......or maybe I'll wait until he's gone.....hard choice.
&nbsp;As for the whole wing thing...sorry, that is American...I mean....what was the first Asian car to use it? &nbsp;Earlier then the Pontiac (I think) Superbird?<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'> &nbsp;doubt it.

&nbsp;sometimes people need to get over their own culture's pride thing...and accept that we are all people. &nbsp;We are all on this board cause we love our cars, not to start another world war.

everyone on this board needs to meet up at the next All-Nissan meet, and we can all have a group beer-slam <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

[vancouvers14]

los angeles july 2002. &nbsp;beers on me.

[Drifting Ricer]

I hate to add to this but Asian people aren't the only ones who eat rice on a daily basis.
Spanish people are big on rice, in fact I just had nice big bowl of Spanish rice. Rice is the car not
the person(the mentally too). I'm actually thinking of putting Spanish Rice Rocket on by car.

[BlankFlip]

i don't think there was nething bad in some of my posts that i deleted, but just got rid of them in case ppl gonna argue n stuff. why bring this back up? man, i guess ppl take things 2 serious, i could care less if somebody from this forum called me a flip, unless they were trying to be deragotory cuz i'd know that they were just playing or whatever, but nobody's actually been like &quot;u f*cking jap,&quot; that's where i'd have a problem w/ somebody talking like that cuz that's just ignorance.

[s13240sxman]

I think its really funny how people think that the Term rice is used to make fun of AZN people, its really not in any way. My two close friends are AZN and they set back with me and make fun or Riced out cars all the time, the only thing that pisses them off is when people say &quot;That car sounds like an AZN car&quot; thats when they get mad. Other then that we use it more then ever making fun of More white guys then azn's who think they know whats up about a honda when the head out to a SHOP and get a muffler for 75 bucks. Dont get me wrong though because my friend drives a 98 V6 Accord and its fast so not all hondas suck and Toyota well all I have to say is SUPRA. So the term Rice is great if you ask me. HAVE FUN PEOPLE!

[S13 Passion]

hey you like to get laughs from ricers, guys? check this out....

www.riceboypage.com

fricken hilarious!!