Sick Of Rice
 

There more I go out, there more I look around, the more rice I see. Its only getting bigger. And this scares me because soon we'll have these rice wankers designing the next generation of automobiles.

Gone are the days of the 1970s F1 beauties, gone are the days of mad group C racing gone are the days proper racing.

Every time I go to a book store never do I see a younger person pickup an EVO or a Car magazine. What Im I talking about, anytime I see someone pickup a decent magazine its some man in his 40s going through a mid life crisis looking for a new toy to buy.

The more I turn on the TV, the more rice I see. Drifting competitions, drag racing and other shiite.

There seems to be no interest in Ferraris, Porsches, Lambos....all they care about these days is a riced out mazda, nissan or some other deep fryer.


So what do you think is the future?

I say, its gonna be full of electric cars with big wings, stickers and body kits straight out of the factory...


We need to do something to bring back what cars should be all about. Slippery bodies, V12s and V8s, RWD, NO TC, NO ABS, no bullshit, nervous rear ends, and dashboards with big tachos in the middle.

Move to Europe.
Here its:
Rice = ghetto kids + no taste
Performance cars = moneyed + taste
Supercars = very moneyed + taste

I c what you mean and I must say I feel the same. Poland is a rather poor country so cars like Ferraris, Lambo's, Astons are way beyond anybody's incomes. Maybe if the people saw the magnificence and the beauty of these cars the rice era would end. I must say that most of the youth in my country are more interested in modified cars. All my friends buy Polish mags such as "GT" where on the front cover ya can see a red Daewoo Matiz with 18' rims instead of a F430. A small part of our population makes up a subculture we call 'dresiarze'. They find it cool to walk aroud in the latest luminescent Addidas clothes and drive around in their 30 year old BMW's with moddified exhausts, their speakers playing techno at max volume. They just piss everybody off all the time. That's why Beemers have lost a lot of reputation in my eyes, I love these cars the fact that they are riced out by these assholes makes me mad.

"The fast and the furious" and "2 fast 2 furious" were both commercial hits here in Poland. Maybe this film has such bad influence.

I haven't really seen any more rice this winter. I guess those spoilers are like ploughs in the snow. :lol:

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i think u are confused what really is rice.. yes i agree there alot of rice, specially in toronto...

people modding their car, and buying performance magainze doesnt mean they are rice.. they simply like to trick out their car...

drifting and drag racing is rice??? wtf did that come from??

whats wrong with body kit specially ones that come from factory? how is that rice?? yes.. sticker and big wing are rice on a low hp ghetto car

there are v12 and v8 cars on the road.. and alot of cars on the road are rwd.. just dont buy a fwd.. .. and for traction control.. any true sports car, can turn it off.. is faimly car that cant totally turn it off.. and abs?? wtf is wrong with that.. you can simply stop shorter

and no. i am not a ricer man.. and yes. i do know some knowledge about ferrari, lambo, porsche, konisegg, zonda

You are sick of rice?!!? i have it every night and i never get sick of it!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

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No you are confused. Putting a turbo on your car doesnt make it rice, putting a useless body kit on your car is rice. Unless that body kit improves your downforce and lessens your drag its not rice...but lets be real here, 90% of those body kits just add drag and nothing else. And please how many of the rice mobiles arent shitty FWD low HP deep fryers?????Tell me please,,,its one in a thousand that you see a modded Evo or a WRX or a Skyline.........95% of that scene is full of fucking econo boxes. When they drop a line that goes along something like this -" thats all I can afford"...I just want to laugh. For the money they put into their econo boxes you can get your self a nicely used 944 or find a 914, a car that can actually go fast...unless you trick out your car to go fast, your just a fucking poser trying to look like your the sheeeet with your civic that looks like it can do a 1/4 miles in oh so many seconds.

Fucking barely anyone "tricks out" their car under the hood. If you puting on some new blue led spark plug wires, and change your air filter for one with glitters its fucking rice.

A wing on a civic wont do shit....half of those wings arent even designed with downforce in mind, just look at their shape. And tell me please what is that wing for if all you do is cone dodging at 20mph and possing at whatever those VTECs red line at in first gear.

Drifting is FUCKING RICE WITH A CAPITAL R. Why? Because its all about looking good.....driving and racing is supposed to be about a challenge, about going that thousans of a second faster. Driving around in a circle at 40mph or less is nothing but throttle feathering and oppsite lock...yes its that easy...especialy when they setup the car just for that purpose :lol: talk about challenging.

Its ok to drift for fun as a secondary thing you do on a track day etc....at a some decent speed at least......but when drifting becomes a full on "sport" it just makes me laugh......see no difference between an Armani model walking down the strip and some shit box going around is circles smoking the shit out of rear tires.

ABS and TC was a side comment. And yeah, when you are on a Sunday drive if you are really an enthusiast you should turn all aids off. Its a challenge to feed the power with your own feet, its a challenge to work the brakes your self, not some computer. Might get your self a driver instead. Or take the Taxi.

And what is up with stickers? Stickers are not cool. The only reason race teams use them is for sponsor ship....all it does is makes your car looks uglier....the less stickers the better....you didnt see to many racers with stickers in the 60s did you? Well thats because sponsorships were not as big back in the day.






To the bottom line is this. FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION. Anything that is not functional on a car is rice, and goes against the three words above.

Everything on a Ferrari on a Porsche is there for a reason. You dont see ferrari puting an air vent that is just for looks. They make their cars beautiful because they are shapped by the wind.

@Badmihai - LOL at your comment


C'mon Alex, don't knock VTEC or VVT in general. I'll get all upset :cry:

Hondas are great cars, as football (with the round ball) is a great sport, unfortunately both attract idiots.

I agree ABS and TCS should have an 'off' button, but as for twboy's comments about ABS, well let me suggest you try the follow 'test':

Find an empty snowy car park, which shouldn't be too hard as far north as you are at this time of year.

Drive along (not too fast!) put on your brakes and see how far it takes you to stop.

Now do the same thing with the ABS system fuse pulled out, and then see how long it takes you to stop.

I haven't tried this myself but I am told that the test proves that ABS isn't always your friend...

Oh Im not mate. Its a great system.

Re: Sick Of Rice
 

here is a picture a drift track (Pt. Gawler), its NOT a cricle (trust me :wink: )
http://img150.exs.cx/img150/672/port...rack2ih.th.jpg

you should try it. its fun and cheap.

yeah, you should burn all the cars with stickers on them :roll:
http://img150.exs.cx/img150/4048/838...cmed9xm.th.jpg

^^ food for thought :wink:

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Drift track=lame

Enzo with stickers. Well it has to have those stickers because Gumball is a sponsord race. No stickers, means no money for the event.

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have you ever looked at the sign-up sheet of the Gumball? the drivers pay a couple thousand dollars to be in the race, its not the "power of the stickers"

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The race is still sponsord :lol: even though they pay.

I'm fairly new to this forum, but I have to say I agree with most of SFDMALEX's comments.

Over here in the UK, this worst form of modification to a car seems to be mainly carried out by a section of the population we now refer to as 'Chavs'.

It seems they live only to modify their cars in such ridiculous ways.

It does provide a lot of great entertainment for the rest of us though when these hidious motors see the daylight though. :D

Putting body kit on ur car is rice? Oh yeah?? Let say u buy a Novitec kit for ur Ferrari 360.. is that rice?? How the hell do u know if is making more downforce or not? u going to put it in wind tunnel???? Do u see any tuner company, claming how much downforce with their body kit?? NO.. 99% of them don’t put it in a wind tunnel.. so basically almost every single car with body kit is rice to u… even with little exterior mod

Yes.. I agree with u that.. with the money they put on their civic, they could probably buy a better car.. and I see modded wrx everywhere, with stock exteriors.

Drift is rice? Drift is about looking good? And drift is easy? Do u know how many different drift techniques are there?? Do u know how they judge u on a drift compettion? U probably don’t know.. do u?