It’s a popular car tuner app that you can use to make real cool stuff or real crazy ones.
Some of mine:
Unleash your inner ricer.
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I used to use it quite a bit (still have it bookmarked) and was part of an FB group with it, but then I learned (from that group, experience may vary) that holy shit that’s a Toxic community to anyone who isn’t up to their “standards.”
Still, might jump back into it.
Well, you’re not there anymore are you?
Post it here. I used to go to their official forums for a while and they’re really friendly.
So visual mods only?
You can’t drive them but it allows for some degree of interior and engine customization.
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Well if you download an app for your phone you can drive them (I think).
I like rice on my plate, not on my eyeballs
also the website is broken as hell for me
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You guys… don’t tell me I’m the only ricer in here
K rant time, I know how in the early 2000s The Fast and The Furious craze was at it’s peak and games like Need For Speed Undergound, Midnight Club, and Juiced encouraged ricing culture and now that everyone grew out of that phase, it’s kinda understandable that most of that stuff seems childish and even ugly today.
However now we see a resurgence in modifying culture with stuff such as Rocket Bunny, Liberty Walk, RWB, Bishimoto. As expected these brands become very popular today being somehow exempt from the ricer brand that hit pretty much any sort of body modification.
Now what I really hate is when these brands are somehow considered “track ready” and free from the ricer brand that hit legitimately race experienced tune shops and styling houses. Exactly what makes any of them not ricery eh? All the bolts and flares trying to mimic the classic race car look? All the stupid holes that do nothing? All the exposed stuff that with anything else you get called out for building an incomplete car?
I know most of y’all really don’t give a shit about this, but I really hate what stance and drifting culture did to custom cars. In the eyes of the general faux enthusiast, your car should be untouched except for wheels and stupid drop that renders your car undrivable, or full of flares, mismatched panels, wheels that poke out of an unpainted bolt on fender flare with more camber than the Delorean on flight mode. Anything in between is rice and unworthy of consideration.
Thing is while many aero companies are strictly body shops, many of the top brand names in Japan and even America, especially those known to actual enthusiasts (I mean actual owners, not me) such as Amuse, RE-Amemiya, C-West all have chops from actual motorsport. They frequently enter competitions hosted by Best Motoring where the cars are made to set Tsukuba superlaps or Touge runs down a mountain pass, and in the case of RE-A, have fielded a private GT300 entry and won against factory backed teams in 2006.
And now these companies are considered ricer brands? Hate to break it bud but bolt on fenders don’t make your car faster or track ready. In contrast RWB is very strictly a body shop. As much as I like them, they aren’t exactly track tested parts, despite all the racey looks and how their owners supposedly track them alot. LW and RB (TRA Kyoto) have backing from GReddy, but that doesn’t mean anything. They only have massive media presence due to them building machines for exhibition drifters and speedhunters coverage.
So anyway rant over, I just hate how modern car culture shames people for not following a certain aesthetic style or think that strapping bolt ons and making holes in your bumper is JDM. There was an interview with a senior Kanjo street racer who said that “American perception of JDM culture is not true JDM. They just took what they liked and assumed it to be the whole thing” Real JDM is crass, Real JDM is wild with stuff like this:
These “ricer” kits are popular with the Japanese in their home country. And many of the manufacturers have ties to the infamous Mid Night Club street racing gang (AbFlug in particular), so yes they do have some motorsports pedigree to them.
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