I'm sorry, I just have to reply to this one. Before I bought my MP3 I was into the whole honda JDM kick, this group were the originators of making fun of rice. I'd just like to list off a couple of rice items on the noricers.com website.
silver 7 gen civic (a fairly severe case of rice)
-altezza tails
-blue headlights
-neon undercar light kit
-headlight strobes
-blue dash lights
-blue spark plug wire cover
-blue battery tie down
-blue fuse box cover
red 6 gen civic (this is only a mild case of rice)
-maxspeed coilovers
-clear tails with red leds
mazda mp3
-front grill
-hyper white headlights
-neon undercar light kit
-5" tachometer (you can't read the one in the car?)
-boost guage (with no boost)
-CUT SPRINGS!!!
-eibach stickers with CUT racing beat springs
Rice isn't just big wings and body kits, it's anything that does not aid in and sometimes hinders the vehicles performance. Even big stereo systems are rice (I did not list these though as they can be removed before racing). Anything that leads a person to believe something which is false (ie stickers of products YOU DON'T HAVE, instrumentation for PARTS YOU DON'T HAVE, aftermarket guages FOR GUAGES YOU ALREADY HAVE). I think our cars from the start are EXTREMELY rice, it's taken me awhile to even START to get used to them. I bought the car because I could fit a car seat in the back, I could fit a stroller in the trunk, and it was fun to drive. The original car I was going to buy was a Subaru WRX, yes that's right the car so many of you make fun of that outperforms ALL of our cars on the track, the only reasons I didn't get it was the fact that it didn't have enough room for a car seat or a stroller. Before the flames start and people start getting smart and saying I could've got the wagon.....I'm only 22, there's no way in HELL I'm rockin a wagon....I'm not driving a wrx wagon OR a protege 5.
Those are my thoughts take them how you will.