I see an over-extensive usage of the term "ricer" here. Speed Demon's car dosen't look anything like a ricer. Trust me, I have to paint and paste graphics on cars all day... I know a ricer when I see one.
RICE is having a primered car with yellow decals all over it, or having a GT-R badge on your Kia. Or triple-exhaust on your Hyundai Sonata. Or neon yellow brake drums on your maroon Integra. That's rice. Graphics and even wings are not nessesarily ricey as long as they are applied to a deserving car. If these are ricey features, consider the TOCA Touring Contours rice.
Theres no definitive line drawn on what rice is and isn't. It's sort of like asking whether NOS is cheating or not. We could go 'round all day. You said it best when you said "To each his own". Just leave it at that.
