Oh no, factory riced-up Fords and Mazdas..!

[geno]

those damn toyota matrix's and pontiac vibes

Matrix? Vibe?

boooooooo [thumbs down]

 

[Rallispec]

Originally posted by: genocide

those damn toyota matrix's and pontiac vibes

Matrix? Vibe?

boooooooo [thumbs down]

lol.. word.
ugly peices of garbage. same with the new civic hatchbacks. thier isnt a good looking hatchback out there anymore, except maybe the golf.. but even that is pushing it.

 

[prodigy]

Originally posted by: BooneRebel

Originally posted by: TechnoKid
Can we please refer to it as factory tuned cars? Thanks.

You wouldn't call a henesey viper a factory riced-out car, would you?

Only if Hennessey took a stock Viper and added subwoofers, a big spoiler, and a coffee can exhaust without making any performance modifications. If he did that, then yes, I would say it was riced-out. Fortunately, he doesn't ruin Vipers that way. I think we've beaten this concept to death.

How does this work for you?

Rice=modification focusing more on appearance than performance (body kits, neon, clear taillights, etc.)
Tune=modification focusing more on performance than apperance (headers, turbos, etc.)

Focusing on appearance has nothing to do with rice, sometimes people want to improve the looks of their cars (all subjective of course) and don't care about speed at all. Think of it as wearing nice clothes. Now if you were to stuff a sock down your pants, that would be rice.

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[Thegonagle]

The article focused on the Prot&eacute;g&eacute; MP3, no longer in production, yet missed the Mazdaspeed Prot&eacute;g&eacute;? A turbocharger is definitely not a ?rice? modification.

(EDITED when I noticed I posted something that made no sense!)

 

[Red Dawn]

the protege mp3 is a nice car

It looks like a Dodge Shadow

 

[ObiDon]

Originally posted by: prodigy69
[Also since when does clear tail lights equal rice. Would you call this car rice? link I would guess it's a lot nicer than what you're driving everyday.

I don't really consider those clear taillights since the majority of the lenses are still red. I thought you would have at least linked the Lexus IS300.

Yeah, the Neon SRT looks like it has potential but if any of you remember my rental Neon thread...I couldn't see out of the mofo. The A/B/C pillars were too fat and the rear deck was too high. WTF would I want to go fast in a car I can't even see out of?

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: andrey
Factory Boom-Boom Audio Systems:
Ford Tremor and Mazda Protege MP3
By Eric Peters


Bass that can be felt before you arrive, announcing your imminence like a thermonuclear pulse--along with high-decibel treble that'll give your passengers tinnitus on the way to 7-Eleven--can now be bought right along with power windows and air conditioning on at least two new vehicles: Ford's Ranger Tremor pickup truck and the Mazda Protege MP3 sedan. Each of these vehicles is more a platform for amped-up audio systems than anything else. The sheet metal is incidental--and in the Ford, even passenger-carrying capacity takes a back seat (literally) to amplifiers, subwoofers, and speakers.

The '03 Tremor--$18,830-$21,130--is a 2WD Super Cab Ranger with a custom-designed, 485-watt, CD-playing Pioneer Tremor Audiophile "dual media" stereo system. To say it kicks is like saying Arnold is big. Words can't properly convey the sound-generating capability of the Tremor boom-box. Ford had to wire a high-output alternator into the thing to make sufficient juice to power the Pioneer unit. And the Super Cab body style was necessary because the equipment-- including a 10-inch subwoofer pack--takes up most of the backseat area. But you'll be the king of the stoplight thump-a-thump as you let loose with the latest Eminem track at volumes so high dogs will run for cover for miles around, old folks will cringe--and as you do to your own hearing what sitting next to a howitzer for a 6-month tour did to Gramps back in World War II.

Then there's the Mazda MP3--basically a jazzed-up Protege, Mazda's humble econo-car, but with a gigantic wing grafted onto the trunk and the usual boy-racer accompaniments that make these kinds of cars so popular among the 18-to-25 set. In this respect it is not much different from souped-up Honda Civics, Nissan Sentras, and other cars like that. What separates the MP3 from other compact sportsters, though, is the orientation of the car around the factory-installed MP3 player and heavily amped boom-boom audio system; giant bass reflectors are mounted in the trunk to echoplex your latest thrash-metal, rap-fusion, or whatever into the next county.

Digitally stored sound (known as MP3 technology) is the latest "in" thing in audio equipment, but so far, only the Protege MP3 is equipped from the factory with a built-in MP3 player. Mazda is banking on the hipness of its technoid pocket rocket to lure kids, who appreciate all this stuff, into the showroom.

<from one of the articles on CompuServe>

wtf is rice about that? lol

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

the protege mp3 is a nice car

It looks like a Dodge Shadow

I know, nice, isn't it?

 

[mrchan]

on anand it has become 'cool' to make fun of any mods done to imports. even engine mods get the 'if you want a fast car you shouldn't have bought an xxxxx'. get a life fellas.

 

[ObiDon]

Originally posted by: mrchan
on anand it has become 'cool' to make fun of any mods done to imports. even engine mods get the 'if you want a fast car you shouldn't have bought an xxxxx'. get a life fellas.

It's more likely the attitude of the driver that they're making fun of. Some of them think they're badass just because they tossed a couple things onto their Civics.

I forgot to mention since we're talking rice/not rice that IMO rice is fat exhaust tips, windshield squirter lights, and huge spoilers on cars that weren't really designed to need them in the first place.

I'll let big rims slide though.

 

[prodigy]

Originally posted by: ObiDon

Originally posted by: prodigy69
[Also since when does clear tail lights equal rice. Would you call this car rice? link I would guess it's a lot nicer than what you're driving everyday.

I don't really consider those clear taillights since the majority of the lenses are still red. I thought you would have at least linked the Lexus IS300.

Yeah, the Neon SRT looks like it has potential but if any of you remember my rental Neon thread...I couldn't see out of the mofo. The A/B/C pillars were too fat and the rear deck was too high. WTF would I want to go fast in a car I can't even see out of?

Yeah I guess you're right, I'll edit my original post.

 

[Eli]

I like the Matrix.

 

[TechnoKid]

Originally posted by: genocide

then why the hell didn't you say "the hennessey viper actually has performance enhancements, a big spoiler is not one of these"

sigh, here we go:

Can we please refer to it as factory tuned cars? Thanks.

Since when does a stereo = tuned?

tuning refers to performance - a stereo has zilch to do with performance, [Walter] am I wrong dude? [/Walter] These cars have no performance enhancements as far as the article mentions, therefore there's no way you can compare it to a Hennessey Viper which has nothing *BUT* performance parts.... Read your post with the quotes, from front to end, you might not have seen exactly what I was responding to

And a stereo cannot perform good? So people who upgrade their stereo, people who spend thousands on just wire, because of the performace of it all, it has nothing to do with performace?

I prefer to see it as a better than stock stereo as a better performing one, hence why it may be called performace audio when you upgrade. You can tune your audio too. Heck, you can tune anything in a car, audio and engines being some of them.