What Brand of Vehicle do you drive
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Yes, it is a common term for nice Japanese badged cars ruined by foolish owners who subjected them to horrid mods. So common that it is international. I've seen this term used internationally (any place I've been where I could pick up a copy of an import tuning mag printed in English).bawlsyTDi said:
Four Hondas in our garage and driveways...and we are completely anti-ricer. I like our cars exactly the way they are designed, and intelligently designed at that. I also like them when they're tastefully and purposefully modified. Cutting springs and changing suspension geometry w/out altering spring rates is an accident waiting to happen, but the ricer crowd does it, for looks only. Real import tuners go the distance to enhance the vehicle in the appearance tuning, engine tuning, and suspension tuning areas. You get a really great car that way.
And my neighbors are the proud owners of rice-rockets (this is a term of respect for the Japanese engineers being able to extract the highest specific power output in the world [measured either in bhp per lb. of engine weight, or bhp per cc displacement, or bhp per unit of fuel consumed; they win on all counts]). Hence, you have a 2-wheeled rocket.
Or a rice-burner...a nod to the utter reliability and functionality of Japanese motorcycles. I just saw a 20-yr old Nighthawk 650 (Honda) parked next to my car. It's in great shape, still soldiering on.
Not racist at all.
'scuse me while I go drive my manly minivan w/ its 240-bhp aluminum VTEC.
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I dont mind properly moddified rides either. But, although the sound isnt annoying, I feel the same about american cars. My firebird is the formula 350, with a hot cam, MSD ignition, custom intake and a single exhoust pipe(upgraded to 3" pipe though), with a stock muffler. Those 350 camaros, and GT stangs, with nothing but dual flows, dont look as good through my rearview as they sound. 
sumthin fishy said:I dont mind properly moddified rides either. But, although the sound isnt annoying, I feel the same about american cars. My firebird is the formula 350, with a hot cam, MSD ignition, custom intake and a single exhoust pipe(upgraded to 3" pipe though), with a stock muffler. Those 350 camaros, and GT stangs, with nothing but dual flows, dont look as good through my rearview as they sound.
I agree. If you can't hear it coming (i.e., induction howl through a well tuned intake system), it ain't got nothing on you, even if it has a noisy exhaust.
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i have a 1990 4 door Oldsmobile Cutlass SupremeSL with the 6 cylander engine ^_^ i love it, i've only ever driven 4 cylanders before and this thing has so much more power. it can't beat a mustang, but its got more guts than my old Pontiac sunbird.
2 2006 VW Jetta 2.0T's
Going to add another VW to the line up this month. Trading in the Isuzu Rodeo for a VW Toureg
Going to add another VW to the line up this month. Trading in the Isuzu Rodeo for a VW Toureg
There's got to be something special about these cars. The US Postal Service uses the right-hand-drive versions of these Subarus for mail delivery in mountainous areas.DeputyChiefJR said:
Of course, Chrysler is not happy, as they feel their Jeep Grand Cherokee would be a better choice, but it simply can't match the Subarus in terms of sheer reliability and fuel economy and resistance to rolling over. It's one of the few times where a major U.S. gov't agency was allowed to buy a foreign badged vehicle because it made such good sense for us taxpayers.
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