I go along with those of you that feel sorry for ricers. But in my opinion there's a difference between rice and somone "trying to make their car look cool". IMO a ricer is someone that buys a civic (or something easily moded) just so that they can throw a body kit, fart can, and a big wing on it. The funny/sad part about it is that all of a sudden they think their car is tops. [case in point, the other day I was driving down the road and I pull up to a light next to some big wing saturn with chrome wheels, I look over and I'm thinking WOW, poor kid thinks thats cool, I would have felt indifferent about the whole thing if he dind't rev at me and jump once the light turned green, I didn't even want to waste the gas] But...theres a difference between people like that and people like my former self. I had a 4 dr. Daewoo and loved the Fast and Furious, but I didn't know any better so my girlfriend bought me underbody neons because I thought they were so cool, but I wasn't about to try racing someone, and I still had an appreciation for proper performance cars.

So in summary I agree with those of you that said that rice is used to broadly. The dislike for rice should actually be applied to the driver because some people just don't know any better and think that big wings is the way to go