(1)An individual who attempts to alter a slow, economic car by origin with the intent of acquiring extra speed mainly through HP/Torque fluctuations. The individual is under the false impression their car is fast when it is merely "faster" and is completely cliche.
(2) An individual, who may own a fast car or car with a little extra performance value than typical economic cars(i.e. SRT-4s, EVOs, WRXs etc) who perpetuates the same actions of other ricers(winning a race then hitting their hazards, cutting people off when "racing", entering the emergency lane to pass people, using highbeams as a threat, pulling the e-brake to attempt a "drift", peeling out their vehicle to "show-off", "
grilling" or doing a "threatening" stare while driving against or racing, applying more ricer-like modifications(stickers, bigger exhaust), etc.)
(3) An individual who's core knowledge of cars is through mainstream sources yet is under the impression he is proficient with vehicles, especially imports(Hondas, Nissans, etc). This includes Gran Turismo/Need for Speed "video-game" lingo like: Stage 4 clutch, Cold Air Intake(when it's not cold air), computer chip(when it's ECU), motor swaps(when it's unnecessary half the time), dropping the tranny(extremely dangerous in an automatic), etc.
(4) Someone else who calls a person a ricer when they in fact are one also...better known as hypocrites.
(1a) That neighborhood kid at Discount Auto/Pep Boys/Autozone who's entire accessory line for their car is based upon.
(1b) The kid in high school who has the civic with 3 different colors(primer, body kits), huge spoiler, gauges, extinguisher and neons yet their car runs the 1/4 mile at about 16+ seconds.
(2) That same kid above, who's parents now purchased him an SRT-4, cannot control the difference in power and ultimately crashes the car.
(3) Possibly the same kid, who constantly goes throughout the internet looking for JDM parts, purchases and reads Import Tuner as his core source of knowledge, expresses anything new he learned while reading descriptions in Forza or Gran Turismo 4 and sounds like a broken record if he tries to assess any real problems in his friends car.
(4) Probably you, reading this now! Go buy a real car(i.e. Corvette, Mazda RX-7, Camaro, Mustang, Supra) and don't make it "All show, no Go!" ;)
By rx787