The Volvo will HOPEFULLY be sold this week. I ended up coming home early from work today, so the guy that wants it didn't get a chance to check it out. I have the whole interior apart anyway!
The DX I mentioned was wrecked... it was going to be turbo, but I spun out and wrecked the rear. Parted it out. It was a shame... nice little car.
As for the terms:
Rice is basically a term for anything that's gaudy or unacceptably flashy. Big, ugly wings, obnoxiously large or cheap looking wheels, "appearance" mods done to a car that is in great need of repair (rust, crazy dents, horrible paint). It's pretty much just a slang term for a car or parts on a car that are ugly It comes from the term "riceburner" which is a slang term popular in America for Asian cars (since rice is so strongly associated with Asian cultures). It's dumb, and often used by ignorant people, but it is what it is. A "ricer" is someone who chooses to modify their car in "ricey" ways (as explained above), or someone who drives as if their car is the greatest thing on the road (idiots with loud exhausts on Civics that weave through traffic and speed down small residential streets are pretty much the epitome of "ricer" )
A sleeper is a car that doesn't look very fast... no extreme exterior modifications whatsoever... Basically, my car in the early stages (and some would say now, even). With 75 more horsepower than stock, while riding around with hubcaps and stock suspension, my car was quite a sleeper Nobody expected it to be fast at all.
The DX I mentioned was wrecked... it was going to be turbo, but I spun out and wrecked the rear. Parted it out. It was a shame... nice little car.
As for the terms:
Rice is basically a term for anything that's gaudy or unacceptably flashy. Big, ugly wings, obnoxiously large or cheap looking wheels, "appearance" mods done to a car that is in great need of repair (rust, crazy dents, horrible paint). It's pretty much just a slang term for a car or parts on a car that are ugly It comes from the term "riceburner" which is a slang term popular in America for Asian cars (since rice is so strongly associated with Asian cultures). It's dumb, and often used by ignorant people, but it is what it is. A "ricer" is someone who chooses to modify their car in "ricey" ways (as explained above), or someone who drives as if their car is the greatest thing on the road (idiots with loud exhausts on Civics that weave through traffic and speed down small residential streets are pretty much the epitome of "ricer" )
A sleeper is a car that doesn't look very fast... no extreme exterior modifications whatsoever... Basically, my car in the early stages (and some would say now, even). With 75 more horsepower than stock, while riding around with hubcaps and stock suspension, my car was quite a sleeper Nobody expected it to be fast at all.
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