Ok: I'll jump in...
With a little story: My wife and I went to Wendy's and there was a guy outside shining up his 1,000 spoke wheels of his riced up honduh. We go inside, wait on line and order our food. At that point, Honduh man comes in and goes to the start of the line and starts mumbling, "What aren't you taking my order." In time he realizes his mistake, and goes to the back of the line. We get our food, I taste my drink, and it doesn't taste like diet soda. (As a diabetic, that's what I have to drink). So I go back on line, and ask the worker for a new soda. The manager says, "No problem." While he's getting my soda, Mr. Honduh (who finally made it to the front of the line), mumbles, "You should know what diet tastes like." I said "Excuse me, are you talking to me?" He says, "Yeah: if you drink diet, you should know what it tastes like." I said, "I'm a diabetic, and can't take the chance." He just shut up, but really annoyed me with that attitude.
Ok, end of story. My point is this: as atr911 said, there are a lot of ricers out there who have bad attitudes. We think it's most of the rice-owners, but it's probably just a small percentage of them. How many rich, snotty Porsche owners do you know? Not many, but most people think you have to be rich and snotty to own a Porsche! It's the bad attitude bunch of kids that I hate in the whole rice-world. I don't care much for the 'posers' either: all show and no go. However, there are people who take import cars and work the engine and suspension components and turn it into a really good performing car.
Before my time, (and probably yours), kids were souping up their dad's beat up Ford in the hot rod era. It's the same thing today, only the cars / tools are different. Intercoolers have replaced headers. Turbos have replaced bigger carbs...and the list goes on. (And I'm sure back then, the kids were also frowned upon.)
So: there's nothing wrong with souping up a car, but it's the attitude that I resent.
Just my $0.42.
-Z.
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