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Originally Posted by HunterGreene
It will be one of the hardest urges to resist, ever, to not walk up to an owner to does this and just scream MORON directly in their face.
Here's the pic i was thinking of:
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This is why the American automotive scene is nothing compared to the scene in Japan. We pigeon hole ourselves here. In Japan, ricers aren't pariahs. I'll admit I'm a little biased towards people that own cars with "ricer" mods because most of them are idiots. However, I'm proud to say I'm a ricer. A reformed ricer, but a ricer none the less. I'm not ashamed to say that back in the day I was one of those kids with a slammed Integra and a stupid loud exhaust.
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Originally Posted by mines13
Ironic, a ricer shop in Japan. Sad days.
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I guess you could call it ironic, but it's nothing new.
People want what they can't have, and people want to stand out. Especially in Japan. Japan is a very conformist society, so a lot of young people rebel against that big time. There's actually a huge USDM crowd in Japan, just like we have the JDM crowd here. They build cars that mimick what people in the USA were building a few years ago. They do LHD swaps. They pull the Honda and Toyota badges off their cars and replace them with Acura and Scion. Weird, isn't it?
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Originally Posted by Turbowned
The Japanese have been getting ricey, lately... Look at the whole bippu scene with all those ridiculously-cambered cars:
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That's not bippu. Bippu, afaik, isn't even a word that's used in Japan lol. I'm pretty sure it's an American-ism applied to VIP style cars. That xB is rockin' some oni camber.
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Originally Posted by Asterisked Accolade
To be honest, it sickens me more how everyone has filled this thread like an auditorium to criticize and crow at something someone else has decided to do to their car. Even if the mod is perverse and perhaps illogical, i just find this kind of mass-criticism putrid.
Herbert Henry Lehman once said, "I must respect the opinions of others, even if i disagree with them," and what i see here is disappointingly disrespectful.
I'm sorry, by the way, for being 'that guy.'
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Very well said.