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Originally posted by The Fireman
To my knowledge there hasn't been a Cobra owner come in here, and put down the GT. So why are the GT owners doing it to the people with the V6?

I don't know what some people consider to be rice, but what about the Saleen, Roush, and Steeda Mustangs. They didn't come from Ford like that people. They had to be lowered, given wheels, stripes, spoilers, and made to go faster. Everything that some people out there would call "rice" if they saw it done to a V6 Mustang. Why is it called rice when it's a V6, and why is it considered cool when it's a V8?

toche fireman
we as american 21'st century humans always want somthin better: bigger body parts, better jobs, lives, more attractive partners, nicer cars... the list is endless. i don't know how we became fixated on the future or of "what could be better than now". why can't we enjoy our short time here in the present?

rice by my definition is overkill; projecting an image of false performance and destroying a beautiful orginal design with sensory overloading eye candy. . deep down we all want somthin better. every 6 owner would love to own a horsepower v8 monster with shiny rims an a killer sound system. GT owners would love to own the nasty ford cobras an the killer horsepower, torque and performance of fabled big bad snake emblem. cobra owners would love to own the speciality high dollar trophy ponys in the elite mustang corral: saleens, roush, shinodas, steedas.. the universal link that keeps us togther: we all want somthin better an we all love mustangs.

some people say immitiaton is the highest form of flattery and I agree. thats why we as car nuts are willing to tear up, rip out, polish, spit shine an build from the ground, up our dream cars; why we pour thousands upon thousands of dollars into automobiles. we dress them to be our dream cars with body mods, better wheels, turbos, nitrous, superchargers an good ol fashioned cubic inches to make what we are forced to settle for run an look like our dream cars...

...but when you can't decide which model you want to imitate, i.e roush wheels, a shinoda wing, and cobra body emblems, and saleen hood, and steeda body kit, and its not executed with class an style seemlessly and is simply bloody sensory overkill.. that my friend is rice. i don't care if its a 4, 6, 8 or 12. an ugly car is an ugly car and an "ugly car" is negating the balance between style and form and the cars natural original design characteristics. by not utilizing the cars natural design and enhacing those aspects, it jus looks like a failed attempt at glory and it shows to the artistic eye.

if your gonna "enhance" your car, look at the lines, the pannels an the shape of the body, look at function before form, an realize people designed the o.e body for looks. these ponys look bad a** lowered w/ nicer tires. they were designed by artists and engineers decade after decade trying their best to continue the legend of the mustang: its history, prestige, and its place in americana , but its up to us...to make these ponies hual a**