Originally posted by FUNKED1
Wow.
The only thing worse than moronic Yank pop culture is foreigners aping moronic Yank pop culture.
The ricer revolution is not an American-born phenomenon. It started, quite predictably, in Japan. The aftermarket parts industry (as applied specifically to small-engined economy cars, as opposed to big-blocked muscle cars) was born there, and migrated to the states via Southern California, where it started to pick up serious steam in the early-mid nineties.
No, gentlemen, we cannot take credit for the advent of the rice rocket. And although American pop culture did do its share to bring this practice into the public eye, just as the American aftermarket industry carried the torch forward into a far larger market, we, like the yo-hindis of Hayezsquad, are only following in the footsteps of the Japanese gearheads.
