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Originally posted by Unit 5302
You want the truth? Coming from somebody who's been a member of this board since mid 1999, I'd have to say over the years people here have become "ricer-phobic." They don't know what a ricer is anymore, and any vehicle that has any modification they don't think is particularily cool is therefore a ricer.
In reality, many people here are not car enthusiasts in my honest opinion. They are high performance V-8 Mustang enthusiasts. The only 14-15sec car it's okay to put appearance mods on (conservative wheels, blackouts, oversized cowl induction hood) are Mustangs. Wings are nearly forbidden because they are rice. Nevermind the Mustang has been equipped with optional wings/spoliers since the 1960's. Those are not rice because they are Mustangs. I also say V-8 Mustang enthusiasts because V6 and I4 owners are routinely ripped on here as if the almighty V8 is the symbol of being worthy to post about performance. I find it to be hypocritical. Most people here would trust what PKRWUD has to say, yet his full size Ford truck with a 1000lb load in the back could probably be outrun by a new V6 Mustang without a problem.
They also appear quite sexist when it comes to acceptable mods. A guy talking about putting appearance mods on their car before it's a 13 second car may receive ridicule. A female can put whatever they want on. There are enough leg humpers to inflate the female's ego.
Actually, there doesn't need to be any mod involved at all. If you simply enjoy your car here in a different way than dragging it down a 1/4 mile, you may be ridiculed. Also, if you do something unusual for fun, such as driving a down a dirt road and goofing off people may post threads saying you should be shot, and/or beaten etc.
It's why I'm now very scarce around here. I'd rather hang around with true enthusiasts.
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youre right...100%..i try to leave more open-minded posts when people say "OH MY GOD! I CANT BELIEVE SOMEONE DID THIS!"...but about 90% of the people will just look at it in disgust...if someone come son here and asks for appearance advice about thier mustang its like a bashfest or a bunch of narrowminded replies..."you can only get saleen ground effects, anything else is just rice", well if you look at a saleen, its covered in appearance mods, the whole body style has been created to stick out (our vague defintion of rice now includes the damn saleen mustangs)...we cant have xenon even though they all pretty mcuh look alike, because it doenst carry the saleen name...its all about trying to look cool here then too...course if I said I loved the steeda wing (the one that is a touch taller and quite a bit wider with tips) and wanted one, most of you would probably start bashing me, or any pics I posted...sure I dont like giantass fart cans out the back or the sound they make, or construction paper ground effects on anything either....but when they actually put decent parts on their car, I tend to look at it like its nice (whether or not its made in japan)....im incredibly impressed with the subaru wrx and love the 3000GT VR4...and the first time I watched the fast and the furious it was probably the coolest movie all summer...(course i still came outta there saying the good cars were the supra and the charger)....so i should be a ricer...none of us consider our muffler accessories to be rice, why not even though all they do is make you loud (excluding offroad x-pipes etc) ?? since all those giant cans mainly amplify the sound coming from the back of their 4cyl, whats the diff between that and amplifying the sound from an 8cyl? we think the 8cyl sounds nicer, some like bubblebees, but we cant rip apart everything that Ford hasnt produced for a pony car....i feel like we are in a group just like the ricers are...i love racing ricers...a good majority of them around here are nice guys and will give my stang a decent race...in fact, its the ls1 guys that seem the worst in town...so we need to start to think outside the box perhaps...
lets try not to think too deep on what I just said either, because a lot of you guys are really nice people, carry some good conversation and really tend to care about the other people on this site...so im not trying to say we're bad people, just agreeing that we are a bunch of ricer-phobes like unit said...
i still think you started this thread to kcik up somethin though....