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{{quote|''"With all the money that these morons dump into modification, they could have saved up and bought a real sports car in a couple of years instead of pretending like they drive one now."''|'''Maddox''', ''[[The Best Page in The Universe]]''}}
Any widely available car that has had its outer body modified to give the impression of a high performance vehicle.
Aesthetics such as large tailpipes, or “fart cannons,” spoilers, fake hood scoops, big rims, neon lighting strips, imitation badging, fake decals, loud exhaust systems, bright neon paint, and racing stripes ("go faster stripes") are added in an attempt to look fast and emulate professional race cars.
These modifications do not necessarily mean the car has any high [[Awesome but Impractical|performance capabilities]]. In fact, lowered suspensions, low-profile tires or poorly applied body kits can even add excessive weight and reduce the performance of these cars. Actual race cars have special low-weight bodies which are simply an extension of the car within, more than offseting any losses due to the excess material. Just adding the outer molding won't magically improve the engine. And since race cars don't have to deal with speedbumps or potholes, lowered suspensions and low-profile tires are just asking to be shredded on an average road.
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* Nicely sent up in an advertisement for microwaveable snacks, showing young people meeting to show off their microwaves, complete with flame jobs, spoilers and sound systems.
* A series of T-Mobile To Go commercials made fun of this trope, creating a Poser Mobile with a super low profile, gold/flourescent paint, giant "hood rocket," and roof and rear spoiler.
* Volkswagen had an ad campaign for the VW Golf GTI that mocked the Rice Burner phenomenon, where [[Peter Stormare]] would “unpimp ze auto” in a rather destructive fashion, butchering rapper speak the whole time with a fake German accent.
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** Another challenge had a hill-climb between a pimped-out Peugeot 306 and an ''1963 Austin Healey Sprite''. {{spoiler|In keeping with the trope, the Healey won it.}}
*** {{spoiler|However, the race was pretty close and much of the Peugeot's pimping involved giving it a massively oversized engine. Unfortunately the car was unable to apply more than about 1/3rd of the horsepower it generated to the road.}} Partially this trope then, but not entirely: the changes made to the car were also functional.
** In the "find the perfect car for a 17-year-old" challenge, Richard Hammond fitted his car with a body kit. Needless to say, it didn't stay attached very long.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Subverted by Ork vehicles in ''[[Warhammer
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* The ''[[Midnight Club]]'' series has a few of these in the first two games, but the trope really starts to become prevalent in ''DUB Edition'', where you'll find legions of AI racers with riced vehicles. The AI becomes more tasteful about designing their rides in ''Los Angeles'', though.
** And that's not even getting into the cars players can create in ''DUB Edition'' and ''Los Angeles''. Giant spinners and underglow on a Lamborghini Murcielago, anyone?
* ''[[Forza Motorsport]]'' has a paint editor that lets you rice up cars. Quite a few people spent more time putting ''[[Lucky Star]]'' [[Itasha|characters]] on their cars and selling them in in-game auctions than they did actually racing them. Along with that, many of the less exotic cars have a number of body kit and spoiler options, though most are lighter than the stock body parts on the car.
* The arcade ''[[The Fast and the Furious]]'' game and its sequel are ''Cruis'n'' <small>[[Recycled in Space|WITH RICE!]]</small>
* Chan Jaoming seems to embody this spirit in ''[[Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars]]''. During one mission Huang has to disabled other cars in a street race so that Chan's flashy-but-terrible car can win.
** Customizing was one of the new features made available in ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'' - though some cars are much better suited to it (hint: an actual sports car can take more modifications and already goes fast anyway).
* In ''[[Saints Row 2]]'', absurdly extravagant modifications are available for pimping out the most mediocre rides.
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