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Well, in my opinion "modified" means something that is done AFTER the car leaves the original factory. As far as mine is concerned it is therefor unmodified. Customizing IMHO means choosing the extras you like when ORDERING the car from the original manufacturer yet altering nothing after it has been delivered.
@TSN: No?
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Well there you go. When purchasing an older vehicle you'll be stuck with what the original owner ordered from the factory, and that might not be what you want. So you modify.
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Or you conclude that "modifying" and "customizing" are synonyms and then do something that's actually productive and meaningful with your life, like debating wether there was a USS Discovery in Starfleet circa 2260 with other people who have reached the same conclusion. B)
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And no cars are broken into there ever?
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Not that I have heard of lately. And believe me, if cars are broken into here, it's in the newspapers. Not because there aren't any other news but because car break-ins are not very common here. Thieves rather tend to steal the entire vehicle - and then again that's mainly older cars. It is rare that newer models are stolen because many thieves don't want to risk being detected while trying to find and disable the electronic engine lock.
And I DO meaningful things with my life - but starship debates are no longer a priority...
And to take this thread finally really off-topic:
I'm rather more looking forward to next year's FedCon in Bonn. Great line-up of Trek stars:
Leonard Nimoy Brent Spiner John de Lancie Andrew Robinson James Darren Jolene Blalock ...
Just in case anyone of you is planning to go there...in your Ricer perhaps...
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This is my car as it is today. I wouldn't exactly call it "rice".
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Hmmm... since people automatically call Japanese cars "rice" what do people in other countries call American cars? Since for you Chris, Ford is a foreign car in Canada right?
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"There is some creepy racial context in there, but no one ever seems to comment on it."
Well, it's not really a reference to East Asian people. It came from the fact that most of the cars being... modified... tended to be Japanese cars. Which is not so much the case, anymore, but the term stuck.
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There is this Toyota chop-shop at the front of my building. They're always taking these beat-up of Celicas and the occasional Supra and installing silly airfoils and carbon-fiber hoods (in addition to tuning the engines to within an inch of their lives.) I think it's kind of cool, really. I was always curious what my Chrysler would look like. Too expensive, likely. So instead I buy whirly LED fans and cold cathode lamps for my PC. Of course it's pathetic. And silly. But in a way that is still sort of cool.
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It's not so much the modding itself that puts me off, but the often horrible results. I mean, some of the vehicles in TFATF and 2F2F look really cool, but that's in a movie. In real life, most modified cars look somewhat like those at "laughatrice.com".
IMHO there are mainly three types of cars:
1. Cars that are bought and not modified (the large majority) - because they either look and perform great from the start or because the owners just see their car as a utility and don't give a damn about "enhancements" of any kind.
2. Cars that are modified in a stylish and tasteful way - mainly by experts who OTOH charge a lot of money for their (excellent) work.
3. The "Ricer" type - whether a Japanese model or any other. Often horrible mixtures of underpowered mainstream cars with bodykits and engine mods that make the car look like something out of a freakshow - or Back to the Future.
No. 3 is the type of car - and driver - that I poke fun at because they think they look "cool" in their buckets while in reality they are just laughing stock...
@Hobbes: your car is a perfect example of my No. 1 type car. A nice family sedan like it came from the factory. Now No. 3 type drivers would add some "awesome" bodykit to it and install an engine mod (or new engine) to get that thing up to say 200hp. But that's where it would get silly and become a Ricer. If someone wants to have that performance and the matching looks he should get an RX8 or 350Z or the like in the first place.
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Okay, I'm going to have to give up and ask what the hell everyone means by "ricer". Is it Japanese cars, modified Japanese cars, modified cars in general, or what?
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And for what it's worth, we call American cars, er, "American cars". Except people don't really end to pay much attention to where the car comes from. It's more the reputation of the specific car company.
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