"rice burners" was originally coined by domestic owners to refer to anyone who drove a japanese car, it was a derrogatory word meant to describe what domestic drivers felt to be crappy cars...
the term has been accepted by the import community to describe any car that is outlandishly tacky, or just plain stupid (predominatly japanese imports, but there is also american rice)
and yeah those HID's are big money for ricers... there's been alot of new maxima's showing up at Nissan recently with no headlights, and broken mounting points!

that must suck!
Sean