I hate to say this, but look at the new SI
February-16th-2005, 09:17 PM
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...i like it somewhat. the headlights can go for something a bit taller, the slim one dont seem to work that well on it. 8000RPM seems....high heh. i would love that in the pro. 200hp but i doubt over 150tq is going to happen. and the wing looks good, stylish but not too over the top. the only thing i would change about it would be to push the two vertical peices from near center to about 4 inches from the ends and make them thicker like the ones on the end of the wing, if you catch my drift.
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February-17th-2005, 07:49 PM
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It's not a bad aesthetic. Super-aggressive TSX-derived headlights look good on a typical Honda like concept sheetmetal. Too tall for my tastes. Like the RSX, it's a great car, but the visibilty is crap with the thick pillars and you sit freaking way too high.
What is it with the trend of cars getting taller with more chair-like seating positions? I think it's stupid becuase it's sending the opposite message performane wise. The car's gotta be low to be sporty, and you got to sit low for you to to be fully convinced of it being a sports car. Think 240sx for example: you sit on the floor of an already low to the ground car.
Oh, and that car better be really light. That's what Honda made it's money on with the 90s-era Si's. Because you need torque to move a load of weight, and hi-po Honda engines never make torque. I'll turbo my car before I'd buy one of those things.
What is it with the trend of cars getting taller with more chair-like seating positions? I think it's stupid becuase it's sending the opposite message performane wise. The car's gotta be low to be sporty, and you got to sit low for you to to be fully convinced of it being a sports car. Think 240sx for example: you sit on the floor of an already low to the ground car.
Oh, and that car better be really light. That's what Honda made it's money on with the 90s-era Si's. Because you need torque to move a load of weight, and hi-po Honda engines never make torque. I'll turbo my car before I'd buy one of those things.
February-18th-2005, 03:52 PM
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The outside isn't too bad, but I agree that your outside vision would probably suck. I wonder how the interior looks. When we got my girlfriend's '99 from the Honda dealer we won it from (I love eBay!), I sat in one of the '05 Si hatches. The shifter was sticking out of the dash, like a Toyota Matrix. It did fall readily to hand, but I can only imagine the linkage to require to put it there.
February-18th-2005, 03:59 PM
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Originally Posted by chiefmg
The outside isn't too bad, but I agree that your outside vision would probably suck. I wonder how the interior looks. When we got my girlfriend's '99 from the Honda dealer we won it from (I love eBay!), I sat in one of the '05 Si hatches. The shifter was sticking out of the dash, like a Toyota Matrix. It did fall readily to hand, but I can only imagine the linkage to require to put it there.
I wonder if there is a short shifter for that and if so how the hell would you put it in?
February-19th-2005, 08:43 PM
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I really appreciate Honda engineering (I have three of their bikes), but looking at their recent efforts I sometimes think that Soichiro Honda is probably turning over in his grave. No worries though, someone will figure out how to fab up a short shifter. Pity the poor unmechanically inclined owners who try to install them!
February-22nd-2005, 09:56 AM
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i think theyre answering the general opinion that the current Si looks too much like a bread wagon. honda def wants to appease their main Si demographic: teens-20somethings and it looks like they are bringing back the Si coupe that was rumored. by the pictures alone, it looks like theyve taken the rsx and made it more of a sedan (or maybe took the sedan and made it more like the rsx). japanese imports are almost adopting the american domestic market point of view: once you find something that works, stick with it.
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