Ricerboy mean that they have a small japanese car or a small 4 cylinder car and people do spend alot of money on them. They look great. You can even modify them to make them go better than a standard car like a straight 6 cylinder, I have a Hyundai Excel (Made in Korea) and i've modified my car to make it go better , i've taken the 1.5L engine out and put a Subaru WRX Impreza 4 cylinder 2.0L Turbo engin in. i've also taken out the standard gear box and replaced that with the WRX gear box. I've got WRX all wheel drive supsension and i've lowered the car on peddars sports rider suspension to make it handel better in the corners.I've also included a bodykit, Twin exughast system, Sound system, and the all important mag wheels. So you see no matter what people say about your car you can still make the "Rice" car go better than a normal car. Power to the Ricer

"Ricer" is a derogotory term used to describe small, Asain, cars and motorcycles such as Honda, Suzuki, Hyundai, etc. The term comes from implied stereotype that all Asains are extremely fond of rice, as it is believed to be the primary source of food in Eastern Asia. Thankfully, Asians, as a whole have not reacted in the same way as other groups, such as Blacks, when derogotory terms are used to describe them. Sport Bikes were the first vehicles to be labled as RiceBurners. The lable transfered over to four wheeled vehicles big time after the release of the first Fast and Furious movie. The term had been used before that, but it became more mainstream afterwards, much in the same way "American Pie" popularized the term "MILF". In order to generate large amounts of power, the cars, like their two wheeled friends have to rev at speeds higher than a typical V8.

I believe the original term 'riceburner' was given to Asian (specifically Japanese) cars and bikes because they used small engines, as opposed to great, 8 cylindered iron lumps like the western domestic cars. I think the name was created from the derogatory jibe that they ran on rice, hence 'rice-burners'. Over the years it has been abbreviated to just 'ricer', or 'rice'. Hence, any person (Asian or otherwise) who drove a 'rice-burner' was called a 'rice-boy'. Another example of this stereotyping is the 'Hiroshima Screamer'. Compare a 250cc or 500cc Japanese road bike, with its astronomical rev limit, to a thumping domestic like Harley Davidson. These days I think the 'ricer' thing has been taken to extreme. Some people will use it to derogatorily refer to any vehicle out of Asia, regardless that Japan make some of the best mid to large engines in the world. I wouldn't be particularly inclined to call a Skyline or a Supra a ricer. Over the years, the term has been modified to describe any car that has been modified in an (obviously) outrageous manner, without having any ability to 'walk the talk'. The most 'rice' thing I've seen yet is an electronic speaker designed to sound like a blowoff valve... in a regular car. Now that's just plain stupid. -------- In reply to Brady Smith. I'm sorry, man, but I find your story very hard to believe. Let me explain why. 1. Engine. The Hyundai uses an inline 4 cylinder motor that runs across the engine bay (east/west, or longditudinal). The WRX uses a horizontally opposed (boxer) 4 cylinder engine, which is much wider than the Hyundai donk. Subaru engines are not longditudinal. They are mounted north/south, like a rear wheel drive car engine. 2. Gearbox. The Hyundai, with its east/west engine, uses an east/west gearbox with a transaxle. The Supra, being rear wheel drive, runs a north/south engine and a north/south gearbox. This gearbox runs under the car, behind the engine bay. The hump that runs down the floor of a RWD car is to make room for the gearbox and drive shaft. You cannot mount a north/south gearbox sideways. They are designed completely different to an east/west gearbox, and will not fit in the engine bay, unless you like about three feet of gearbox sticking out of your left fender... If you have mounted a north/south engine in your car, which would be near on damn impossible (not to mention illegal), then you would have to modify the underside of your car to accommodate the gearbox. Next problem: A Subaru engine is NOT going to mate up to a Toyota gearbox. They are designed with different mounting sites, different mounting bolt patterns, different clutch/torque converter housings etc... Impossible, unless you did some serious modification/fabrication. If you have a WRX engine, why not use a WRX gearbox? The Supra is rear wheel drive, the WRX is all wheel drive. In any case, you would have had to completely change the underside of the car to accommodate a rear differential and axles, not to mention the driveshaft from the gearbox to the diff. 3. Suspension. You say you've fitted WRX suspension. I think you'd have a lot of problems with that, unless you modified your underbody suspension mounting points to match. While both the WRX and the Excel use McPherson struts at the front, their rear suspension systems would be different. You would NEED something like the WRX rear suspension for RWD or AWD, but how are you going to fit it to the car? They are two completely different designs. Every car's suspension is designed specifically around it, to suit its size, shape, handling, etc. The Subaru's suspension was engineered to give it the best handling possible. The Hyundai would be the same. Changing the suspension would completely destroy the geometry and handling of the car. Even aftermarket suspension kits are engineered to suit the specific car... Is this thing still front wheel drive? Rear wheel drive? All wheel drive? If it is all wheel drive, there's no way you'd be doing a 100m burnout, unless you had about 800HP under the bonnet and a four plate clutch. 2WD cars... maybe. It's not as hard. 4. Legality. This thing is road legal? Considering the amount of engineering changes you claim to have made, I doubt it. Unless you've got some sort of custom car registration or something like that, you're not going to get it complianced or registered, let alone insured. 5. Cost. WRX engine. Supra Gearbox. WRX suspension. Re-engineering the thing to fit all of these goody bits... Hope you've got deep pockets. By the time you pay for the car, the components, the engineering, the fitting, the compliance, the registration... It would be cheaper just to buy a WRX and be done with it. Sorry man. Sounds like fantasy land to me.

lol, you guys are so funny...Ricer is what you would call a guy that spends too much money on the outside of his jap. Import and make it look fast and look intimidating when its really not with Big spoilers, Stickers, loud exhuast that dont really make a difference in speed and un-nessecery side skirts, Front and rear bumpers. just because its a Jap. import its not considered a RICE car or a RICER. What would you call a V8 Saleen mustang that looks really fast with poser looking spoilers, sideskirts bumpers and loud exhaust gets its front end burried in smoke by a small stock 4 Cyl. honda civic '92 ? lol Theres alot of people who diss jap. imports and call them ricers and rice burners. But here in hawaii there alot of old hondas and acuras that run 8.995 sec and less on the 1/4 mile. Would you consider that still a ricer, rice rod, or the driver a ricer boy? Im an american im not no Jap. if thats what you think. and im not here to take sides between Jap. cars and american cars i just think that you guys have to use better judgement when speaking, Dont favor american cars over jap. imports when speaking because thats your opinion. My opinion is "I hate Jap.imports, ilove american cars" But that gives me no right to diss another car brand. Oh and it originated here in the U.S.A. because some guys got they're sweet set of mustang v8 doors blown off by a Jap. Import and got offended. (Note:its a comment and answer)

Ricer is reserved for those that: - cut a hole in the hood of a Mercedes, mold in a Civic hood scoop - paint ridiculous 2-tone paint jobs - put underglow on a Mercedes - put multi-underglow on anything - put a computer in their car for no other reason than to watch music videos while driving - wear pink shirts and flip-flops to cruise nights It didn't originate in Ottawa, yet has been redefined by a certain Ottawa area Mercedes owner.

james pastirkos car is a ricer