Litmus test for rice: Are the emblems which you are flaunting going on the car (at the proper trim level) to which they belong? No? Then they're rice.
Question two: Did you then take those ricey emblems for a car you don't drive and then enshrine them in a lit case? Hooooly shit rice. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>
IMO GT-R emblems, silvia emblems, Type R emblems, whatever, belong on the cars they were made for. I don't care if you even have a GT-R engine in your 240, unless it's a Gt-R, it doesn't need the badge.
The neon is ricey too, I think, in the sense of ricey being "tasteless". Here's another litmus test, although this one admitedly restricts creativity: Could you picture that kind of modification on a more upscale car? You never see Ferraris with neon strips. It does look a lot more subdued in the video, but I still think it's too much. Neon doesn't belong on a car. Too ghetto.
I like the guages, I think. The idea of blue needles is cool, but it's hard to tell how bright they actually are. In the pictures they seem to be lighting up the whole guage cluster in a bluish hue, which is too much for me. But in the video they don't seem to be shedding light on anything else, just glowing blue, which is cool. Which do they actually do in person? Seems pretty cool.
I don't get why you'd want to make the panel for the gauge cluster white, but that's just personal preference.
Well, you asked, so that's what I think.
In the end, though, to each his own.
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