Referring to the Civic Si of course. Here's what I don't get. I had a car that could easily exceed the civic's fuel economy in every way, handle just as good(with the same tires), and only maybe a second slower to 60, which is a pretty fair trade off for getting consistent 11mpg more than the Civic. Not to mention costs about 3 grand. That car? A '98 Ford ZX2. And if you think the civic's safer, in a 37mph T-bone with a Crown Vic I walked away without a scratch, didn't even break glass, safest car in frontal collisions I ever saw. So in 10 years, a Civic is the best engineers can do? Add 67hp and a whopping 9lb ft of torque for about $7K more new? Btw, my ZX2 could burn rubber at 2500RPM not 5500. They called it Zetec. Similar technology to the all powerful Vtec.
Ya I know I wasn't calling it a sport compact per se, my point was it seems the tradeoff between performance and economy vs price and technology doesn't seem to favor such a hyped car. I mean they could have geared it to run under 7 secs but it would cut it down to the Civic's economy level. Just you'd think in 10 years, they'd actually improve on that aside from just "reliability". God I wish Ford would bring it back and build it to today's standards.....
Ya I know I wasn't calling it a sport compact per se, my point was it seems the tradeoff between performance and economy vs price and technology doesn't seem to favor such a hyped car. I mean they could have geared it to run under 7 secs but it would cut it down to the Civic's economy level. Just you'd think in 10 years, they'd actually improve on that aside from just "reliability". God I wish Ford would bring it back and build it to today's standards.....