What should we expect?

[Abbey Normal]

We have brand new neighbors in the house right next door to ours. One of their cars looks like what I have been taught on this board to call, a "Ricer". It is a small kind of shapeless car (I'll have to check the model) with a rather big goofy spoiler on the back. I don't have other details yet.

What does this bode for us? Are there common Ricer traits that we will have to live with?

 

[dilloduck]

We have brand new neighbors in the house right next door to ours. One of their cars looks like what I have been taugh on this board to call, a "Ricer". It is a small kind of shapeless car (I'll have to check the model) with a rather big goofy spoiler on the back. I don't have other details yet.

What does this bode for us? Are there common Ricer traits that we will have to live with?

Noise

 

[Abbey Normal]

Noise

I hope you only mean car noise!

 

[dilloduck]

I hope you only mean car noise!

music noise---

 

[Shattered]

music noise---

Come now.. I drive a relatively responsible looking car, and plenty of music noise comes out of it.. Don't be so biased.

 

[manu1959]

the smell of kim che.....and keep an eye on your dogs :fifty:

 

[dilloduck]

Come now.. I drive a relatively responsible looking car, and plenty of music noise comes out of it.. Don't be so biased.

You call GZ your "big goofy spoiler" too ?

 

[Shattered]

You call GZ your "big goofy spoiler" too ?

Nooo. I call him many other things, but not big, or goofy.

 

[Abbey Normal]

Update: It's a Subaru, and it also has that raised up open grilly thing on the hood.

 

[USViking]

the smell of kim che.....and keep an eye on your dogs :fifty:

"Kim che"?- that's Korean, isn't it?-
fermented cabbage, or some such thing.

I thought Koreans drove Hyundais.

And I think the Chinese are the ones who favor dogs.

 

[The ClayTaurus]

Update: It's a Subaru, and it also has that raised up open grilly thing on the hood.

Is it an Impreza WRX STI?

Those spoilers and hood things are factory options. Perhaps it's not as bad as you might think.


Rice would mean if the bumper color didn't match the body color, it had a bunch of racing stickers on it, and the spoiler looked like it was literally ripped off a 737 and bolted onto the trunk.

 

[manu1959]

"Kim che"?- that's Korean, isn't it?-
fermented cabbage, or some such thing.

I thought Koreans drove Hyundais.

And I think the Chinese are the ones who favor dogs.

could be a mixed marriage

 

[Dan]

And I think the Chinese are the ones who favor dogs.

I always heard it was Koreans.

 

[5stringJeff]

I always heard it was Koreans.

I think both of them eat dog, but in Hawaii, the melting pot of the Pacific, it was always the Filipinos who got stereotyped as eating dog.

 

[fuzzykitten99]

Update: It's a Subaru, and it also has that raised up open grilly thing on the hood.

Clay nailed it on the description.

really, like the other posters, you can expect a noise from the car like it has an exhaust manifold problem, but they do this on purpose. I had a truck a few years ago with a hole in its manifold, and it sounded just like these cars do, but solely by accident.

The hood scoop thing is likely fake, and something that is just glued on. It is just for looks, as it is a fuel injected car, so it has no way of being functional.

The spoilers make the car look like if they were extended a bit taller, the car could pass for a giant lawnmower.

oh, and expect loud thumping music, that rivals the noise coming from the fart can on their tailpipe(s).

to see more definitions (and funny insults) of ricers, go to this site www.ricecop.com and laugh yourself silly!

 

[fuzzykitten99]

I thought Koreans drove Hyundais.

hyundais are Korean made. the vin #'s all start with 'K' which is Korea at the DMV.

 

[GotZoom]

If that is it, he probably spent close to 33K for the car. I wouldn't worry about it until something comes up.

I would be more worried if my next door neighbor had one of these:

or one of these:

 

[The ClayTaurus]

Clay nailed it on the description.

really, like the other posters, you can expect a noise from the car like it has an exhaust manifold problem, but they do this on purpose. I had a truck a few years ago with a hole in its manifold, and it sounded just like these cars do, but solely by accident.

The hood scoop thing is likely fake, and something that is just glued on. It is just for looks, as it is a fuel injected car, so it has no way of being functional.

The spoilers make the car look like if they were extended a bit taller, the car could pass for a giant lawnmower.

oh, and expect loud thumping music, that rivals the noise coming from the fart can on their tailpipe(s).

to see more definitions (and funny insults) of ricers, go to this site www.ricecop.com and laugh yourself silly!

If I'm not mistaken, the hood scoop is for providing air to the intercooler. I think it serves some function.

 

[Said1]

Is it an Impreza WRX STI?

Those spoilers and hood things are factory options. Perhaps it's not as bad as you might think.


Rice would mean if the bumper color didn't match the body color, it had a bunch of racing stickers on it, and the spoiler looked like it was literally ripped off a 737 and bolted onto the trunk.

Wow, that thing is ugly. Like a wannabe muscle car.


The front end is kinda sporty though.

 

[fuzzykitten99]

If I'm not mistaken, the hood scoop is for providing air to the intercooler. I think it serves some function.

could be, but the age of the guy driving it would help determine whether it were real or not. 99% of the time, the scoop is just a stick on, and there is no actual hole in the hood. Even then, if it is real, the little function it has, isn't all that measurable in terms of performance increases, unless they replaced it with an aftermarket one. Hood scoops work more effectively on carbureted vehicles.