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Rice boy is a US derogatory term for the driver or builder of an import-car hot rod. [4] The terms may disparage cars or car enthusiasts as imposters or wanna-bes, using cheap modifications to imitate the appearance of high performance. The term is often defined as offensive or racist stereotyping.
In more recent years, Japanese imports have become less common with typical family cars, probably due to the great change in the Irish economy over the past 20 years – people generally have larger incomes now, and sales in new cars have soared. Imports from Japan has become more of a specialty market now – importing of sports models not ...
Big Motor (BIGMOTOR Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 株式会社ビッグモーター, Hepburn: Kabushiki gaisha Biggumōtā)) was a Japanese automotive retailer. Formerly the largest used car dealer in Japan, [ 2 ] in 2023 the company was hit by a series of scandals and allegations of widespread, systematic insurance fraud . [ 3 ]
Driving.co.uk ranked it #14 on their list of the 23 ugliest cars ever made, [136] Auto Express ranked it #5 on their list of the ten ugliest cars ever made, [137] and Drive.com.au included in their article on the worst cars of the 20th century, calling it "one of the silliest-looking cars of the century".
Car modifying has been popular among youths in the US, especially in Southern California, since the days of hot rods in the 1950s and 1960s and muscle cars in the 1970s. . There is significant evidence indicating that import drag racing first started in Southern California in the mid-1960s, with modified Volkswagen Beetles, Ford Populars and Austin A40 Devons: Documentation of quarter-mile ...
Multiple critics compared the Japanese Motors' sound to that of the Strokes. [4] [5] Some reviews of Japanese Motors' self-titled album criticized it for being unoriginal, arguing that it sounded too similar to the Strokes' music. For example, Mikael Wood described the band as "a West Coast beach-bum version of the Strokes" and quipped that the ...
They evolved from earlier three-wheeled trucks based on motorcycles with a small load-carrying area, called san-rin (三輪), which were popular in Japan before World War II. Since 1998, the law admits a maximum length of 3.4 m (134 in), a maximum width of 1.48 m (58 in) and a maximum height of 2.0 m (79 in) with a maximum displacement of 660 cc.
The Suzuki Kizashi is a mid-size car [2] manufactured by Japanese automaker Suzuki.It was unveiled in the United States on July 30, 2009. [3] The Kizashi went on sale in Japan on October 21, 2009, [4] in North America on December 1, 2009, and in Australia and New Zealand on May 11, 2010. [5]