[84LX89GT]

People have all sorts of ricer stories on this board, there's everywhere now. You can hear stories about them at car show, race tracks, hell even living accross the street. If you go back a year on the street racer and General discussion board, you could probably read at least 100 different threads with all original stories with people sharing their experiences. I could give you a whole handful off the top of my head if i wanted. The guys that have been on this board for awhile have shared these stories and in fact, it's how the "ricer hater's club" started. Even the guys who have been on the board a few months understand.

Another thing you have to realize that is besides our common bond to mustangs, another thing alot of people have in common is encounters with "rice" cars and the idiots who drive them. This is something that is easy to joke about, and in my opinion it's funny. If i owned a European, or Japanese car, chances are i probably would only like a few people that are in that genre, but it so happens there are a lot more people that are more go than show that drive mustangs on this site.

If you go to www.mustangworld.com and look through the readers rides and through the tech articles you'll see alot of domestic rice on that site. You'll see base V6 mustangs, stock other than "cold air intake" "exhaust" "altezza lenses" "yellow stickers everywhere" "Titanium Ultra Blue HID Euro Style headlight bulbs" with Cobra badges plastered all over the place, Roush Stickers with nothing Roush no them, etc. etc. etc.

This stuff is considered to by ricey (rice is considered to be both idiocy/arrogance of the driver as well as a "distastefully customized vehicle" that is basically slow and/or hacked together).
This stuff singularly may not throw the vehicle into ricetitude, but combined it is the foundation of riciness:
1. Altezza Lights on something other than an altezza (i think they're just gross anyway)
2. Fog lights all over the place
3. Big Banners/Stickers all over the body
4. Mis-spelled/unreadable banners/stickers such as: "Racing Konseptz" or "Honda @$#%! (japanese characters)"......unless the person is sponsored at it's an actual race car. Even then it's still ugly as hell.
5. Wings that stand close to the roof. Especially those ugly Erector set wings.
6. Unpainted body kits (just ugly) If you can afford the kit, get the damn thing painted for christ's sake. At least save up till you can get them done together.
7. Yellow (ugly) accents - for example yellow air vents accenting blue interior
8. 11,000 rpm 5" monster tachometer blocking view through windshield.
9. Seats reclined during normal driving to the point where they're touching the rear seats.
10. Pointless fire extinguisher mounted on A-pillar
11. YoU TyPe LiKe tHiS fOr nO ApPaReNt ReAsOn.

So i hope this answers a few questions you may have. Please feel free to enjoy the other posts on this site other than the rice ones. The rice posts are less than about 5% of what people talk about normally. Just look at all the tech boards. Hope this clears things up a bit. Welcome to mustangworks!