Rice and Taters 2: drama free edition!!!
#1444
The body looks fairly clean... but the wheels... I mean why bother with the widebody unless you have new wheels ready to go? Even if you're like "oh, I know, I'm getting new wheels soon" ... No. It should be "Ya, the shop is putting my new wheels on as soon as they're done so it doesn't ever look retarded."
#1445
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It's a bone stock tC with a body kit. Better known as "I crashed my automatic tC while street racing ,so insurance bought me the body parts and paint job and I can't afford any other mods to go along with it."
#1451
#1455
I have the raven kit too but when I posted my own car here nobody really called it rice. I was disappointed... The car isn't bad it just needs to have the bumper aligned better, I actually like the colors; Gives it character. It's not the true definition of rice but it's not the 'clean' look that is popular right now, or that ridiculous hella flush. Personally I think the Kaminari wing is the riceiest thing people put on the tC, or a widebody with stock rims.
#1456
Rice/tater:
Combination of over abundance of tacky/unnessecary stickers and/or vinyl graphics, body damage, generic cheap wheels that do not flow nor fit the vehicle well, cheap autozone pieces randomly stuck on the car, no theme just parts, bright obnoxious colors added onto the car, and usually a huge wing.
Not saying it has to have all of these to be rice but its pretty obvious by looking at not only the above pics and the majority if this thread to get a good feel for what is and what is not. While I agree with that there are some characteristics of some of the 5a cars that are rice, overall there is one major thing that separates them from that, money. 90% of rice is cheap dirty cars that people put more gas money into them than mods. The 5a cars have been designed and built, not just thrown together.