View Poll Results: Will "JDM" styling be considered rice when we look back 10 years from now?
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JDM styling...future rice?
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Originally Posted by patinum,Nov 6 2008, 01:26 PM
I guess by "go-fast" I mean anything that's functional. Back in the day, the show car trend was to have as many speakers and tv's in your car as possible. Then some people said that was rice because there is little sense in adding 500 lbs of weight to a sports car is kind of silly. Then the trend went to building race cars. Fully gutted, fully caged, wide body, big brakes, possibly forced induction, carbon fiber everywhere, race seats, coilovers...and then they never drove it on a track. To me, that's rice - buying parts for your car to make it look like a race car but never race. RICE = Race inspired custom enhancements. RACE= Race Applied custom enhancements 
just sits there and do nothing..
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Originally Posted by nichigo,Nov 6 2008, 10:22 AM
This is in the wrong forum 
...should be in JDM Tuning and/or s2000 talk
...should be in JDM Tuning and/or s2000 talk
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i dont think it will be rice in 10 years but as any style goes it will be dated and something new will in its place. Ive been doing car shows for 16 years and i promise what i thought was cool in 1998 is not all close to what im into now.
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it is a fad, just like big black widow body kits and color change with wide bodies and conversions, this is a fad. i can speak becuase i had mod'd cars back in the mid 90s. civics rulled the streets with big kits and big wings. jdm is like drifting like VIP all fads. dont get me wrong nice cars can come from every category but it is a fad.
when you get to be older you tend to go cleaner and less "look at me" i still cant figure out the big wing thing. 90% of the s2ks i see with big wings never hit the track...
jdm if done right can make a 88 civic 4 door hatch look good.
when you get to be older you tend to go cleaner and less "look at me" i still cant figure out the big wing thing. 90% of the s2ks i see with big wings never hit the track...
jdm if done right can make a 88 civic 4 door hatch look good.
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If its functional but the owner is too busy waxing it and not using it, then its rice.
I dgaf what the hell it looks like. Simple fact is over 90% of this forum mods for looks and for gheyness.
Use ur cars damnit
I dgaf what the hell it looks like. Simple fact is over 90% of this forum mods for looks and for gheyness.
Use ur cars damnit
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From: Mugen
Some people have always considered it rice. A lot of JDM parts are functional and a lot of people have used it for track purposes whether it's the Mugen swaybars or coilovers from Spoon and those owners don't really care what others think.
If you buy it b/c it's a fad, well of course it's going to be future rice.
If you buy it b/c it's a fad, well of course it's going to be future rice.
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I think JDM is about completeness. Non-JDM guys will argue that parts are overpriced and they do nothing, etc. But I've been a JDM guy since the jump and I'm not trying to brag, but my 00 Civic Si was the cleanest I had seen around. The same with my S. Mugen parts on both. Clean, functional, INCREDIBLY ATTRACTIVE.
The reason that JDM companies have been around so long is because their parts and look is original. I'm not saying American companies aren't, but there are far fewer companies in the U.S. that have that certain style and quality of the parts. Tell me you didn't sh*t your pants the first time you saw that ASM intake that was $2000+. Yeah it's expensive, but it looks so BALLIN'!
I think JDM in spirit will stand the test of time. Mainly because people who don't care as much about their cars won't pour all their money into making it compelte. The ballers will step it up and uphold the standard. The guy with the Civic and triple-stack wing doing the ricer bounce w the cut springs(come on you know you did it
) will uphold the standard for rice. Hopefully, it will stay this way and us JDM guys can keep the dream alive!
The reason that JDM companies have been around so long is because their parts and look is original. I'm not saying American companies aren't, but there are far fewer companies in the U.S. that have that certain style and quality of the parts. Tell me you didn't sh*t your pants the first time you saw that ASM intake that was $2000+. Yeah it's expensive, but it looks so BALLIN'!
I think JDM in spirit will stand the test of time. Mainly because people who don't care as much about their cars won't pour all their money into making it compelte. The ballers will step it up and uphold the standard. The guy with the Civic and triple-stack wing doing the ricer bounce w the cut springs(come on you know you did it
) will uphold the standard for rice. Hopefully, it will stay this way and us JDM guys can keep the dream alive!