Ricer abuse confirmed in the UK

[Matra et Alpine]

Take one nice little Fiat X1/9.

Nice styling, nice revving engine and then let some kid in a Burberry cap loose on it and this is what you get.
http://i1.ebayimg.com/01/i/02/1d/1e/8b_1.JPG http://i5.ebayimg.com/01/i/02/1b/90/ec_1.JPG

BTW, you COULD bid on it if you like it and were desperate to own it at http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=9843&item=2488955165&rd=1

As a courtesy, if you DO bid, please don't tell them you're a member of UCP :)

[VtecMini]

Oh lordy. I bet it didn't have the wing until about 10 minutes after he'd just sat and watched the fast and the furious for the first time.

I think a personality test should be required before anyone is allowed to buy a rare/classic car. I think this guy would have failed.

[Wouter Melissen]

The UN should draft up a list of protected vehicles, with capital punishment as sanction.

[Ciscoheat]

Its bad enough seeying civics with different coloured panels with ridiculous wings on them, but for the love of decency to all things automobile know your limits of taste and decency.

[more-boost1555]

You have to wonder sometimes...don't they realize what they are doing? What the car looks like? Some people just have no class, or taste.

[byronleehk]

Obviously you guys don't know about cars :rolleyes: :D

The wing and the paint job (or sticker??) added at least 100hp to the engine. And being mid-engine makes it all the better...so I'd say this baby is up to par with the Porsche GT-3 or better :D :p

j/k

[DavidC]

So how many horses do this bonnet vent and graphics add?

Remember this is an MR2.......it's mid engined!

Oh, and does he get extra points for the black gaffer tape? Proper motorsport credentials there :D

[IWantAnAudiRS6]

Anyone else got any pictures of extremely badly modified British cars? I would get some here, but the Burberry crew beat you up if you make eye contact with them. Honestly....

[UK CARS]

THE BURBERY CREW ARE NO MATCH FOR THE JIMBONATER!
I have took that look of their faces plenty of times.

They run when they see me.

[VtecMini]

They're not all UK, but Top Gear's carbage (http://www.topgear.com/content/fun_stuff/carbage/0/) is pretty impressive. Le creme de la creme of crappy customisations. (Yeah, I know, the quality of my alliteration knows no bounds)

[cuntukimushroom]

thats bad to a bmw i heard you can get a F355 kit for your mr2

[Ferrari Tifosi]

Why must people do such things to a good car? They should be international laws preventing idiots like these to own cars.

[taz_rocks_miami]

What makes me laugh is that he or she thinks they got a cool ride!!!

[Mustang]

i dont know what to say, seriously i dont ... :eek:

[:Exige:]

Lol! That Fiats just down the road from me! Maybe I should pay it a visit :p Theres plenty of ricers near me which makes driving with my cousin (whos getting an Exige in a couple of weeks but currently got an MR2 which is for sale now) near impossible because the ricers swarm you like a flock of seagulls .. until he sets the turbo to 18psi and taps the throttle :D

[Ciscoheat]

thats bad to a bmw i heard you can get a F355 kit for your mr2

You can and it only fools those that know nothing about cars. Saw one of these mr2/f355 in kensington and people were laughing at it in, theres no bodykit that can make an engine sound like a ferrari.

[Karrmann]

ohh sick

[F1_Master]

Does it have a powerful engine?
Because if it has alot of engine upgrades, then its not ricer. IT looks it, but may not be.

[Matra et Alpine]

Does it have a powerful engine?
Because if it has alot of engine upgrades, then its not ricer. IT looks it, but may not be.

that wing is only providing drag.
It's a mid-engine car and is biased to rear weight.
If anything the X1/9 needed downforce on the front.
So it IS rice :)

The engine is the standard 1500 Fiat unit, which was a nice engine but VERY expensive and temperamental to tune and this one isn't !!

LOOT AT THE STICKERS !!!
So how much more powerful and faster doesn that make it ?
No, no doubt .. it's rice :)


Maybe "Exige" can start a new UCP 'challenge". It's like the Egg-Nog one but now you have to get a picture of YOU with the worst/ugliest/ricest car around.