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A ricer is a vehicle (including its driver) being described as imitating a high performance race cars in terms of its aesthetic aspects only, leaving the engine tuning, supension tuning, and other modifications behind. It also includes unecessary accessories making their automobiles look like an idiot (sorry for the term).

Here are the samples we got from Wikipedia:

Body modifications:

• non-functional body kits, just making your car look like a spaceship
• non-functional wings and spoilers, making your car look like a Boeing-made airplane
• fiberglass or plastic replicas making it look like carbon fiber, maybe hoods painted in black are also included here
• unecessary roof and hood scoops
• scissor doors similar to the doors of a Lamborghini (seems to be not applicable to fully modified show-type cars)
• very large wheels (making it look like a kalesa), often chromed or in bright colors
• too low suspension, maybe this case is applied to some who uses cut-down springs
• unecessary bumper canards

Aesthetics:

• bright paint or interior, usually in contrasting color
• decals and stickers of modification parts that are not really installed to the car, samples are NOS and Sparco
• badging of racing developments like Mugen but the parts were not really present
• using fake parts
• digital turbo, speakers installed under the car that emulate the sound of a turbo engine (this one’s funny)
• “fart cannon” or “coffee can”, just a loud tailpipe
• large speakers that occupy the entire trunk (kinda surprising)

Lighting:

• neon and LED lights added or replaced to the regular head/tail/brake lights and turn signals, lights on windshield washer and tire valve caps, and underbody neon lights
• “Altezza” lights
• simulated HID’s, just a bulb alone mounted to a stock light housing which is not appropriate and causes excessive glare

Improper badging:

• Type R or Si badges on Honda/Acura cars that are not really a Type R or Si, maybe a bigger offense if your car is not even a Honda/Acura
• MIVEC, VTEC, or VVT-i badging on cars with engines that are not variable valve timing technology equiped
• applying “limited” or “sport” badge to an economy class car
• applying a Toyota/Honda/Nissan car with Lexus/Acura/Infiniti badges and vice versa
• V6 badge on cars with 1-4 engines
• Mitsubishi badge on Proton cars and Daihatsu badge on Perodua cars

It’s a good thing to know about these pieces of ideas because it is surprising that some of the descriptions listed above are something that you would not expect to be considered as ricer.