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Old 12-04-2003, 01:15 PM
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Rice Burner...

Need some opinions. Some of my friends were telling me I had a rice burner, refering to my SVX. Would you consider the SVX a rice burner?

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Old 12-04-2003, 01:19 PM
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It is japanese, hence it is a rice burner.
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Old 12-04-2003, 01:29 PM
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Rice burners don't really start out as nice as the SVX though. You have to hop rice burners up alot more to get that kind of power out of them. Being made by an Asian company doesn't automatically make it a rice burner?

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Old 12-04-2003, 01:50 PM
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I think immortal's point was that your friends are stupid and would call any Jap car a rice burner. That's ok though, the next time they call it a rice burner you can call their car a piece of garbage, especially if it's made by Ford.

P.S. The same people would rather drive a 87' Camaro over a Skyline GT-R
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Old 12-04-2003, 02:19 PM
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And don't forget to remind them that there domestic probably has a lot of parts made overseas in them.
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Old 12-04-2003, 02:56 PM
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hey at least they aren't powered by gerbils, hence Hondas

could be worse...you could be driving a VW

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Old 12-04-2003, 09:08 PM
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lol...

Thanx for the input. And the good laughs.

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Old 12-04-2003, 09:35 PM
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hey at least they aren't powered by gerbils, hence Hondas

could be worse...you could be driving a VW

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Old 12-05-2003, 11:21 AM
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unless it has a 10 inch tip on the end of thier 1.5 inch pipe than i don't consider it rice. okay so maybe not 10 inches but we have all seen those cars that just make you shake your head. i guess they could have neon light. than that could be rice material too.
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Old 12-05-2003, 02:34 PM
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unless it has a 10 inch tip on the end of thier 1.5 inch pipe than i don't consider it rice. okay so maybe not 10 inches but we have all seen those cars that just make you shake your head. i guess they could have neon light. than that could be rice material too.
uh oh....... I got larger tipsand neon lights inside and out.
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Old 12-05-2003, 04:50 PM
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It is japanese, hence it is a rice burner.
So you call Lexus LX430s and Toyota Sequoias rice burners? They are japanese.
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Old 12-06-2003, 06:17 AM
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They are all technically rice burners. There is no need to take offence to it. The term rice burner was made up a long way back when they first started importing mass amounts of japanese cars into the states. Whether it is assembled here, japan, mexico, etc. If it is an asian parent company, its a riceburner.
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Old 12-06-2003, 03:51 PM
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not sure about the validity of this but..

i heard that the term "rice" in reference to automobiles first came about because the japenese auto manufacturers would fill the crankcases of their cars with rice oil before shipping them overseas.. of course once they reached their destinations they were all drained and refilled with standard dinosaur bones.. not sure why they wouldn't just fill 'em with regular oil from the factory.. maybe it has something to do with the shipping process..

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Old 12-06-2003, 06:27 PM
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They are all technically rice burners. There is no need to take offence to it. The term rice burner was made up a long way back when they first started importing mass amounts of japanese cars into the states. Whether it is assembled here, japan, mexico, etc. If it is an asian parent company, its a riceburner.
In the mid 60's when I was in motor sports we ran a Triumph and some of our opposition came from Toyota's, Mazda's Datsun's (Nissen) and we had various ricey names for them, we reckoned that they ran on rice water. "1500 CC stood for the amount of cockroaches it took to turn the crank""How many pounds of rice to the mile" etc. We would check their work stations at the service sections to see what type of rice they put in them. When we ran our first Jap car we coped it as well. All good fun.

So down under in Australia they have been using the term at least since the early 60's as it was a well accepted term by the time I first heard it, and it was used for all Jap cars. I think the first uses of the term may have been used to describe Jap bikes at the time they first started importing them.

The term riceburner has changed a bit now and, although I think still applicable to all Asian vehicles, generally would be taken to mean something that tries to pose itself as something that it isn't. A car (Asian?) that has "cheap" add ons that does nothing for the cars performance or style, ugh!!!


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Old 12-07-2003, 11:15 PM
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nothing wrong with rice burners....we got hamburger grills here in the US. then there's the pasta/pizza ovens from italy......fishnchips fryers from england?
delorean was a potato baker?
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