I should have been more specific, I mean added to the car after it rolls from the dealership, but you bring up a good point, Haus. Guy I work with just bought a new STi, and that thing looks like major rice the way it is.

 

rice = big spoiler, 3 inch exhaust tips lol infact just exhaust tips not even the exhaust..if u hear a lawnmowyer its usually a honda lol umm stickers all over the place..yeah someone add in some examples lol.

 

My personal definitions:

Rice = Appearance mods or "performance" mods that either improve the performance insignificantly or are downright useless, dangerous or even actually REDUCE the performance of a car just for looks. For instance: 20" rims on a car that came with 15" OEM wheels, performance stickers on a car without the actual performance items installed, a "Fart Can" welded onto the stock 1" pipe, a wing so large that it creates far more drag than any handling improvement it could possibly provide.

Tuner = A car with a small displacement motor that has been knowledgeably modded and that achieves respectable performance. For instance, a Honda Civic that can pull 13s or better in the quarter. These cars often have some "rice" appearance attributes, but if they can back it up with performance, I'll keep my mouth shut.

 

Dammit im a ricer[:-]

 

smoking the **** out of one = a normal fun everyday kind of thing...

 

Rice: ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ris)

An automobile that has been equipped with gawdy, unnesecary accessories, such as 3' high spoilers, loud and/or repulsive paint job and body work. Owners of such automobiles feel that these accessories make their car the best in the world, when in fact it is not.

"That Prelude over there is nice, but this here Civic ain't nothin but a rice mobile."

-UrbanDictionary.com

Or, you could just look at these:

 

Here is my car... Many people will like it and many people will not... Just do what you like, but research your stuff before you go out and buy anything. It is good to have a good feel for all the stuff out there since there is so many ways to mod a stang... I have a cobra, so I have only done the bolt ons to it because I hardly ever race it and am really building it for show... Most recent good pic...



My car currently... Lambo doors just got installed along with a bunch of other stuff... I sold my rear bumper because I am getting Saleen side skirts and a rear bumper, so there is not a rear bumper on it right now...

http://www.3.8mustang.com/forum/atta...5&d=1151737321

EDIT: I love this forum and I will always post on it, but I have found that for Body and Appearance mods, I ask the guys on www.3.8mustang.com they seem to be a little more open to the unique stuff...

Check out www.cardomain.com/id/dawssvt for more pics and mods of my car!

 

Why does anyone care what other people think. If you want a 7' wing, altezzas and Lamborghini doors on your car go for it.

 

This is the smartest thing I've seen in this thread. Rice is in the eye of the beholder. What one person considers rice, other people might not. If you check out my intro thread, you can see my last car. A lot of people will think it's rice, but I actually spent a lot of time researching each part before I EVER put in on my car. And I spared no expense, just as I won't with my Mustang. I won several trophies at car shows, including NOPI events, it was relatively quick, and turned a lot of heads. The stereo set up itself was worth over $2k. Just do what makes you happy. If you want to put a huge aluminum spoiler on your Mustang, do it, it's yours! If someone else doesn't like it, oh well, they're not driving it, right? I will warn you though, it you actually plan to go to car shows, you really do need to have a "central theme" to your car. Don't just go throwing parts together. And I happen to know several people with mostly cosmetic modifications whose cars are very tasteful, and very nice and clean. Albeit they're slow as molasses in January, they still pull trophies... Just my $.02

 

I always see rice as pretty hard to define, i think rice is more of a state of mind than anything else!