Classic rice.

[B3NN3TT]

I don't get this kind of stuff very often, oddly enough; it's funny enough to tell about.

I'm going home this afternoon and I'm pulling out of the gas station. There's the requisite Civic. It's powder blue, and has that ATROCIOUS Millennium-style rear bumper with all the horizontal vents in it, makes the car look like a hovercraft. Partially painted, of course. It has this poorly-aligned fart cannon sticking out from under the back bumper, with the classic black soot tracks all around it. The requisite white rims (it's times like these I really wish I had a camera phone).

So we go down the street a little while, and I'm assaulted by his fart cannon and unburnt fuel fumes, and I'm annoyed. I can hear every modulation of his gas pedal, and it's obvious he's torturing his clutch. And he's talking on the phone. We're coming to a light and I need to get in the left turn lane, while this douche is going straight ahead. And he's languishing halfway in and out of the lane I need to get into, oblivious to reality. I throw a few revs, and he looks up. I throw a few more and edge left, since I still can't fit into the turn lane, as he's partially blocking it. He finally notices I'm trying to get around him, and slips his clutch into a lane. I find my lane and gun it, breaking the tires loose as I pass by (kinda by accident, kinda not), trying to get to the light before my free green is gone.

I miss the turn arrow, so I have to stop. Straight through traffic goes on by, and this dude catches back up and goes by me. wwWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!, he stands on the gas; I figure he was probably trying to lay some rubber in return, but didn't have the clutch OR the horses. Just a lot of unrefined, ill-tuned noise.

Why is it that when a kid gets a Civic, all taste, brains, and common sense go out the window?

[Josh125XR]

Cause they think that sense everybody else has one that there are cool too & that their in the "In crowd". NOT! I hate civic's because of people like that.

[benjaminallen84]

its funny ive yet to meet somebody with a civic thats ever so slightly modded that seems to be intelligent...they're either extremely dumb and quote stuff that theyve heard other people say (vtec, even had a person tell me that their ulev was a turbo) or tell me about "what they're going to do" or "i just ordered". people who just drive the car to drive it seem fine.

[wanderingmind]

I pulled up to a mid 90's hatch-back civic the other day. He had no exhaust pipes (quite loud), no body work, aftermarket rims and a oversized tach w/ shift light mounted on his dash. I looked over at his car, gave it the once over and labeled him rice in my mind. Anyways right as the light is about to turn green he revs it pretty hard and as the light turns green drops the clutch. He took me off the line cuz I didn't want to burn any rubber off or wear out my clutch at all. But I caught up by the end of first. I was surprised because as I got into second gear and turned on the spray (55 shot) - I only pulled *slightly* (half a car) ahead of him. Anyways, we shut down around 50 MPH and I as we pulled up to the next stop light I asked him what he had in it - he told me it was all motor.

Moral of the story? I don't know. Just thought I'd share.

[jaged]

In my auto cross region there art 3 civics, all fast. One is an si with an integra suspension and motor, another is a normal civic with a built motor, these 2 the only way you can tell they are race cars is the seatblet harnesses. the other one is a pearl orange paint job and a kit, its riced out but fast as well, and he can drive it too

[Rikenbomb]

I helped do 100K mileage maintenance on a '96 civic. Easy as hell to do. I'm guessing that is one reason why people love to modify one of these.
Needless to say taste helps.

Then we proceeded to add toe end links on his 02 GT Mustang to get rid of bump steer...

[Tygerr]

I've also noticed a lot more ricer. I dunno.. i'm not really driving around anywhere new :shrugs: In the past days i've had a gti and eclipse (turboed) try to race me, however bad i wanted to, my tires are in no shape for high speeds. (plus the gts would have stomped me :) )

[redcougarguy]

I was in New Hampshire the other day with my father and brother and we pull up to a light and im in the back seat and a beat up civic with a v tec emblem on the side and I look at it. The kid notices that im lookin at it and start to rev it up and it sounds terrible and my father start laughting and gave them the piece sign. When the light turns green the kids turns the tires over a little and takes off. At the next light we are next to him again and my brother was driving and me and my bro were both laughing and when we took off the kid was right next to us in second gear giving it guess so it would pull a little. I was hoping that my brother would try to race him but my farthers didnt want him to. It would have been so sweet for my farthers volvo so smoke that thing while he was with his girlfriend and friend.

[Nemesis]

Down here in GA all the ugly rice Civics and Eclipses are driven by Mexicans. But we do have the occasional Fred Durst looking wannabe in the Blue SI's

[Darkhorse145]

I have more civic, eclipses, integras, and what ever else around me in NC it isn't funny and they all think they are fast, but my stock ATX beats them most of the time, there are a few fast ones, that are tastefully done, but not many. I can only think of three right now, A green civic, a blue civic that looks like a transformer, and a white eclipse.

[InnovaZero]

Yeah around here, we have the evo's, WRX's. 350-Z's, Civic Hatch's with turboed GSR/H22 motors, etc. Then again, we also have a lot of idiots who think they are fast when they aren't..so I'm happy to be middle of the pack lol.

There was a civic a few weeks back that actually looked tasteful, but I don't think there was much done to the motor yet, cause he saw me accelerate from 30, and decided to back off.