Top 5 Ricer Cars

Definition: Any oriental import car that has been modified for no real performance gain.

Ricer: An oriental car with no engine mods, a body kit, and possibly stickers. Made to look fast.

Not a ricer: An oriental car with a fully built engine, drive train, and suspension regardless of appearance.

Here is a list of their favorite platforms.

5. Honda del Sol: The car is a favorite, because of its ease to find obnoxious body kits, the ability to attach huge mufflers to, and its relatively cheap price to obtain. Some may argue that it is the definition of "chick" car because there are an abundance of female owners. Huge wings and graphics go hand in hand with the del Sol, as well as many VTEC emblems. If you are lucky enough you may bump into a Mugen Type-R VTEC supercharged turbo. Look for it, it is definitely out there.
4. Acura Integra (non Type-R): This car has become a favorite ricer car over the years, and is a tad different from the del Sol because it has a little performance out of the box, more just noise but more than the del Sol regardless. Once again huge kits and spoilers are a must, because down force is a necessary upgrade for these FWD monsters. Stock 0-60 times approach a minute, and the 1/4 mile takes longer than I am willing to watch, but that does not stop most riced out Integra's from a full out 6000 rpm launch at every stop light. You have a Z-06 Vette? Motherfucker they have VTEC (well some of them do anyways).
3. Mitsubishi Eclipse/Eagle Talon (non turbo, non awd): Fast and the Furious, is a little to blame for these, they are cheap, abundant, and many aftermarket parts are available for them. I have had the honor of running into a Mitsubishi Eclipse with a beautiful DOHC VTEC emblem on the back. I asked him if the VTEC helped his quarter mile times, and he responded with “it doesn't hurt it, that is for sure." I just nodded my head and quickly sought refuge inside of the 7-11. You never know with these guys, they tend to pop off as quickly as they think their cars are.
2. Mitsubishi Lancer (non EVO): These cars are mere pocket change brand new off the lot, and with 0% financing and Mitsubishi's lax credit checks, there are more Lancer's on the road than taxis. A common upgrade to these cars, is various EVO badging, random combination badging (EVO OZ editon Ralliart is one of my favorites), and massive spoilers (I assume because the EVO has one, but these are not EVO spoilers at best they are "EVO like" spoilers. Many Lancer drivers believe that their cars are awesomely insane rally cars, and race inspired, so it is never uncommon to witness some seriously intense e-brake drifts in the Wal-Mart parking lot.
1. Honda Civic: There are so many various reasons why this is the #1 platform choice for ricers world wide. Cheap, abundant and basically a must to have owned at least one civic in your life time, to be taken serious by the ricer crowd. Many DX Civics on the street are no longer recognizable as a Civic, because of the Lexus headlight conversion, along with the Skyline GTR Tail light conversion, and massive wide body kit to make sure the 10" wide rear tires will fit. Lambo doors, huge exhausts, and non turbo blow off valves are a must. Most are badged incorrectly, and for some reason nitrous stickers are a definite must, regardless if they have a nitrous kit or not. Most riced out Civics according to their owners will do a 10 second 1/4 mile on their street slicks, which they have at home, because they only bring em out if they are racing for "pinks.” Beware of the non-painted loose body kit parts that may fly off at you in traffic.

I would like to state for the record that for every 2500 riced out cars on this list, there is a true enthusiast with something special. Unfortunately they are hard to spot because of the non- projector HID conversions that blind you, on most of the ricer cars on the road. Have fun out there, just be careful, you never know when Uncle Ben will make an appearance, so breathe steady, calm yourself and relax. Take solace in the fact that eyesore will soon be wrapped around a light pole in some parking lot because the McDonald's trays were extra slippery during his mad intense FWD drifting session, yo.

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Published:: Apr 5 2007 / 9:11 AM

Author:: Chad Danylko

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Jeff Apr 5 2007 / 10:59 AM

The rear spoiler is a way for homosexuals to show that they are looking. It all started in Japan where its still somewhat taboo to be gay, Japanese boys who were out looking for boys would put large spoilers on there cars similar to the way a male peacock spreads its feathers. When the fad came to North America it was very popular in the american mid west where homosexuality is still taboo and spread from there. Whenever you see one of these over sized spoilers realize that this is nothing more then a flag for boys who are looking for boys.

Chad Article Author Apr 5 2007 / 12:21 PM

LOL thats funny. I have a feeling there might be some truth to that.

Chad Apr 5 2007 / 12:44 PM

i can not confirm this until i see a BMW M5, or a non-riced out car, zooming by with an over sized spoiler
for now it's still a myth

btw- what if the homosexual has an F40?
would he put an over sized spoiler on top of the OEM?
LOL

NP Apr 5 2007 / 12:49 PM

It would only have a large wing if the person was homosexual AND looking for other homosexuals. LOL, I don't care if it's true or not, but for all intensive purposes I will assume that it is.

Brad Apr 5 2007 / 2:29 PM

That is a great article, shit so many quotable lines. I love it!!

DeeBee Apr 5 2007 / 3:24 PM

"Take solstice in the fact that eyesore will soon be wrapped around a light pole in some parking lot because the McDonald's trays were extra slippery during his mad intense FWD drifting session, yo."

Bad error! (:-) You mean "solace;" No seasons talked about here: like winter and summer 'solstice!!' The word means "to console," soothe. Do a search; there are additional definitions.

Stephen Glauser Too Real Writer Apr 5 2007 / 4:23 PM

DeeBee, I've gone in and fixed that. I've really got to proofread articles after running them through Word's spellchecker. Thanks!

gogogadget Apr 5 2007 / 11:40 PM

are you talking about cars, or noodles...wtf is an oriental import car, douchebag?

Stephen Glauser Too Real Writer Apr 5 2007 / 11:43 PM

With a name like 'gogogadget' I seriously question who the douchebag in this equation is. Sure, Asian may have been a better word, but seriously... do you have some kind of a deficiency that prevents you from understanding a term?

Oriental clearly means of Asian decent, douchebag.

Seph Apr 6 2007 / 11:43 AM

aurthor is an idiot. I guess being raised by rednecks would make you hate imports. So if oriental imports, as you mean all Japanese (which make some of the best cars in the world, better then american these days) does that make Korean imports or as you would label them, Asian imports, so much cooler? I don't have any of the car's you have listed, but I don't see all these Lancers you're talkin about. I see more red necks in trucks that look like they belong in a mud pit crushing cars because of their small genatelia. Oh btw, on your, " Any oriental import car that has been modified for no real performance gain" does that make show cars all ricers? Dumbass

IhateRedNecks Apr 6 2007 / 12:17 PM

Who ever wrote this sports a mullet for sure. I also wonder how much their life has to suck to spend time writing up crap like this. Dont you have a rustang to repair?

Chad Article Author Apr 6 2007 / 12:31 PM

Seph- Did you read the article? Where does it say tasefully done show quality cars are included in this list? Did you look at the pictures included? Did you stop to think for one second this mat have been written as a joke? I have owned every car on that list at one point of my life, and at time they were completely "riced" out. Huge spray painted white wheels, on my rusting faded red integra, with some serious altezza action taking place in the rear. I also had a DOHC TYP-R (the e was missing) on it. I still look at the pictures and laugh occasionally.

IhateRednecks- Currently I own mostly Japanese automobiles. I have a Lexus IS350, Infiniti G35, and a Honda Civic, I have some european examples as well, but just to set the record straight, I love cars ,all cars. So calm down relax, rub your pressure points, think of a happy place, stop questioning what kind of sad life I must have because I wrote this article, because remember it was you that took the time out of your day to read it, and then the extra effort to respond. What kind of sad life are you living when something clearly created to provoke laughs, makes you so mad, you start name calling (redneck etc). Wow I never thought there were so many crazy people out there.

Richard Apr 9 2007 / 8:37 PM

Chad writes a hilarious article that hit the nail right on the head, and all he gets in return is a bunch of retards calling him a redneck.
On the other hand, I thought that the article was very well written and I got a good little giggle out of reading it. Especially the part about the non-evo mitsubishi's. There was a kid I go to school with who was talking about how badass his Lancer was, so my buddy and I hopped in my parents Pontiac Sunfire and kicked his ass.

Speed Racer Apr 30 2007 / 9:56 PM

You forgot to put chevys with forstickers and fords with chevy stickers. For every civic on the road, there is a dumbmestic on the shoulder on the highway. If you call wings rice the same should apply for muscle car owners who just put flowmasters on their ride and call it mean lol.
BTW I roast mustangs and dont really boast about it.

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