Sorry for the long wait guys I needed to get adjusted with school, and also several personal problems have popped up recently, but the wait is over and my first “come back” article is about my hatred of Ricers.
Ever see an economy car such as a Toyota or a Hyundai, which has been modified? The fact most people see a Ricer. A Ricer by definition is a car that has been modified aesthetically, and nothing has been done to increase performance. This is something I hate with a passion, I may be walking in Markham, Ontario and every Honda Civic on the street has either a 2-foot (60 centimeter) high wing spoiler on the back, or it has an atrocious body kit that rivals the art work by a dog using its own excrement. The only thing they don’t realize is they are adding unnecessary weight to the car. The body kit just lowers the car and basically makes it a brick moving through air=LOTS OF DRAG. Lastly when you attach that huge 2 foot spoiler to the car you’re not making it any more aerodynamic or faster, because in a front wheel drive car (Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic, Hyundai Tiburon) THERE IS NO REASON IN THE WORLD FOR THAT MUCH DOWN FORCE ON THE REAR WHEELS ON A FRONT WHEEL DRIVE CAR! The moron doing this to his car, is actually lifting the front wheels of the car off the ground and lowering traction, increasing the chance of hydroplaning (front tires ride on thin film of water, causing driver to have no control of the car), and making the car look like a dog turd on wheels. Lastly while the huge obnoxious spoiler is looking “cool”, it makes the car not only looks like a turd on wheels, it is also very dangerous as he obscures his own vision to the back of the car, creating yet another blind spot.
Ricer
^What not to do to your car^ Note: The huge rear spoiler, huge exhaust that looks like it belongs to NASA however it does nothing but make the car louder, an the brick body kit that increases drag to truck level, and lastly the one tonne rims which look horrid rounding out the weight to an approx. 10 tonnes. Okay that wasn’t fair to the ricer, 9.9 tonnes. The only thing this thing lacks is huge quantities of cool vinyls from companies they don’t have parts from because they are too unintelligent to use their money on actual performance parts.
When they show off their car they leave the hood down and hope no one notices that is it stock engine with an extremely heavy body for that particular engine. Some people even invest in “special Mufflers” to make that stock naturally aspirated Toyota 4 cylinder engine sound like a super car, and to increase the effect remove their catalytic converter, they are not only killing those lovely baby seals in the arctic, they are also killing us by forcing us to breath in toxins that would normally be filtered out by the catalytic converter and the muffler.
Even more so to public insanity, they load the back of the car with about 70 extra speakers and more subs than the queen of England is old. This adds even more weight to the back of the car, giving an increased effect of down force on the rear wheels, which is completely unnecessary in a front wheel drive “tuner” car. Not even mentioning the fact that when it is used, it’s played at full blast on the highway, with the windows down, with very annoying rap music; as someone who has to deal with this on the 401, it absolutely drives you insane. They seem to think that the sound waves increase their horsepower.
All in all if you have some extra money to spend on your car, do away with the brick body kits, and the huge obnoxious wing spoilers. Instead I commend you to buy some nice tires, maybe upgrade your suspension system, install a turbo or two or even swap your engine, better to have a street sleeper (an innocent looking car which actually is a monster under the hood), than a ricer (a car that really looks like a street racer but doesn’t have the ability to out run by an old lady’s mobility scooter, and also weighs the equivalent of a cement truck).
Hating Ricers,
- AT16
NOTE: Inspiration taken from an article on the site http://ManiacalTyrant.personallog.org.