Colloquially "Rice" means "distastefully modified." It's actual DEFINITION is (Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancement) i.e graphics, body kits, canards, interior strip out, etc. A Riced car is simply a race car for the street. (Or at least looks like one)

Lol thanks. Thought that needed clearing up. I think things got blurry when people started saying “rice-box” for a sh!tbox that was of Japanese origin, which, more often than not, was (on a budget) riced out, meaning cheap body kits and stick on vents and such. So the two at some point became interchangeable because there was the war going on and gas cost a fortune so you didn’t really see all too many cars modified respectably. I’d saying after 2005-06 people got it together but before then most of the ‘tuners’ were riceboxed (i.e a distastefully modified WRX per say) ao technically rice but not because of the condition of the car, rather the vague attempt at it. Which is I think what resulted in people instead cramming their cars with audiovisual because gas was too dang expensive to justify driving anywhere haha.

Who knows why.. all I know is history is clear and definitions are defined. Like muscle cars.. don’t even get me going… lol

Also this post is ancient… how did you find it?