Rice burner is a pejorative term originally applied to Japanese motorcycles and which later expanded to include Japanese cars or any East Asian-made vehicles. Variations include rice rocket, referring
T-Mobile's 1985 Corolla Sport GT-S coupé "Poser Mobile" advertisements exploited ethnic stereotypes and stereotypes of customized East Asian cars as failed imitations of "authentic" car culture.
The AE85 series of the Toyota Corolla Levin/Sprinter Trueno are small, front-engine/rear-wheel-drive compact cars within the mostly front-engine/front-wheel-drive fifth-generation Corolla range —manuf
Rice burner
…T-Mobile's 1985 Corolla Sport GT-S coupé "Poser Mobile" advertisements exploited ethnic stereotypes and stereotypes of customized East Asian cars as failed imitations of "authentic" car culture…
1983–1985 Toyota Sprinter Trueno SE (Japan)
1983–1985 AE85 Sprinter Trueno SR liftback
1983–1985 AE85 Sprinter Trueno SE coupé
An example of a modified AE85 with a Suzuki Hayabusa DOHC cylinder head and twin Weber carburetors developed by Tomitaku.