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Old 04-30-2006, 11:38 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by DuoVamp
This is one of the best posts I have ever seen. It offers insight and has a very reasonable explanation behind the argument that the engine is not mod-friendly. Even the conjecture that the days of the sleeper LX are over, that's brilliant, but most-likely going to be absolutely true.

Good job psy, I agree with you on everything you said. It all makes perfect sense, and you're right, it is simply not that easy to modify with little funds. Honda wants the SI to be the car that everybody tunes, it was simply made that way, plus they made the public not really want to modify their LX and EX coupes because... well... they could just get an SI instead. Honda ends up making more money and gaining more "street credit" for the SI, exactly like they wanted. Good job psy and good job Honda for the forethought. I keep forgetting how smart Honda's business/marketing branch is, I usually focus on their awesome engineers. <3 Honda

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