...the reason they are refered to rice (they being Jap cars) is because they have rice in their gas there...here we have corn in ours...ricer came around when the imports started getting into the race scene here in america, especially around the drag strip. american car owners would classify them as a "ricer" to make fun of them for being an import. Now, obviously, its to make fun of the "performance mods" imports put on their cars and not so much as an import in general....the good running imports are usually just called tuners...so, my point being, you can "rice out" an american car but you it cant actually be called a "ricer"...