Ricers: Cool or Stoopid?

oLLie

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I didn't vote for either because "Ricers" is a stereotype. I'm sure that a lot of them are irresponsible punks, but I'm not gonna say all of them are like that and I'm not gonna say most of them are like that.

Ollie
 

GoldenGuppy

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Merely an observation based on personal tastes... why do you think they exist? Because it's obvious that some people think they're cool...

Obviously there are some people who don't, so what I say is that it's a matter of taste.... some people like lowered cars w/ outrageous spoilers and decals... some do not :)

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zippy

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They don't just exist because they are cool guys. Another reason why they exist is for financial aid. If some kid goes out and buys a $30,000 car, the financial aid he is recieving will be revoked/slashed. If he buys a Civic for $15,000 then he is fine...he can rice it out all he wants and they can't do anything about that financial aid.

This is what I was told by my sister's fiancee who happens to live in a town with a lot of ricers. He asked some guy about them and that was the answer he was given.

Either way...they are so fugly and stupid.
 

GoldenGuppy

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<< wtf is a ricer? >>





<< what are ricers? >>



They are Asian model cars (Acuras, Hondas... etc) - that have been fixed up to the extreme in order to "race"

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CuriousAndy

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<<<They are Asian model cars (Acuras, Hondas... etc) - that have been fixed up to the extreme in order to "race">>>WITH POOR TASTE


I saw these viets with pimped up Hyundai Elentra.. WTF?? they pimped up the Elentra.. with rims and anooying blue neon lights..
I couldn't help but to laugh... POOR POOR taste..

~andy
 

GoldenGuppy

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<< WITH POOR TASTE


I saw these viets with pimped up Hyundai Elentra.. WTF?? they pimped up the Elentra.. with rims and anooying blue neon lights..
I couldn't help but to laugh... POOR POOR taste..

~andy
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Hey, I'm a Vietnamese guy - but it doesn't mean that I endorse ricers... but I don't necessarily hate them either. You just have to understand that some people view them as being cool - whereas others do not... it's merely degustibus-kno-es-desputando - everybody has his own tastes. We can't judge what others view as the "apple" of their eye..

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CuriousAndy

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cool.. good thing you were mature enough to not to take my comment personally cuz i said 'viets'

nothing against them.. many of my friends are viets actually.. just.. not.. ghetto.. lol

~andy
 

veryape

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I think most of them are young kids and they just cannot afford real cars so they fix up old foreign cars. Nothing wrong with that.
 

GoldenGuppy

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<< cool.. good thing you were mature enough to not to take my comment personally cuz i said 'viets'

nothing against them.. many of my friends are viets actually.. just.. not.. ghetto.. lol

~andy
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Funny... none of my friends are Viet.... seriously don't know why... everybody in my family seems to have been Americanized... even my parents don't hang around Vietnamese people ;) - seriously don't have anything against the "ghetto" types... but well, yeah, sometimes I really just can't answer :(

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Kelvrick

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Do whatever the hell they want with their cars. Don't go revving your screwed up engines with oversized mufflers through my neighborhood when I'm sleeping though. As a matter of fact, any time at all. Its just ruining other people's time listening to their music. And music. Don't roll down your windows and then glast your rap music or trance either. Roll up your friggen windows. Maybe some people don't wanna hear some guy talking/cussing to remakes while I stop at a stoplight.

Again. Do whatever you want. Put Stuffed animals on the roof for all I care (I have a cow beanie baby on my dashboard. It was a present from my best friend). Just don't do things that'll effect other people.
 

bootymac

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hah, just this afternoon, I went to some "car" convention. *cough cough* rice rockets *cough cough* everything there were rice rockets!
1 car even had some neon blue lights under his car! I only see one good reason for that, to melt the ice that gets your car stuck during the winter seasons! :) now wouldnt that be cool?
I was talking to this guy who suited up a honda civic. He had a tv built into his dash board and a dreamcast system hooked up in his glove compartment, and a PS2 in his back seat!! He also had a spoiler the same height as the top of the car and a lot of blinky lights!
I asked him how much it costed...he said around 10,000! i dunno if he's lying or not, cuz i aint no rice rocket fan. :)

.:edit:.
some guy also had sub woofers in his trunk and set them to max volume! OMG! then he turned on say weird music, and my head was gonna explode. literally
 

unterbear

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actually, i hafta admit, i think they're kinda cool... if nothing else, you gotta love the dorkiness factor of taking some piece of crap car and pimping it way out. that, and gran turismo 2 (haven't played 3 yet) is *such* and awesome game, you really can't blame people for trying to play it in real life, can you? ;)

and, really, they're not that different from the guys that did musclecars in the late '60s / early '70s or the rodders WAY back in the day who would chop & channel something like a '51 Merc..
 

deerslayer

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I dont think it's any different than someone putting a 6" lift and 35" super swampers on a truck or jeep and makin the exhaust louder than $hit or a nice drag/street car with slicks and all the goodies. I'm not trying to start an argument or anything here, but can you really say that some kids loud stereo is any worse than some adults loud a$$ harley davidson goin down the street? Nothin against either one. I'm just saying, i think teens get picked on a lot because they are teens. I'd take a 1st gen camaro over a ricer any day, but if i had to settle for a ricer i'd be happy with that. I think it's just a big competition between teenagers to see who's car has more cool gadgets and lighting and all that crap. Prolly just like back in the day when teens used to soup up their muscle cars. Just change in time.
 

prodigy

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If you just put some stickers, a huge spoiler and a Type-R or Si badge on the car it's stupid. If you really have engine and suspension mods in there then it's cool.