MS3 & Civic Si Photoshoot

DaleNixon

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2001 Miata, 2011 Mazda 2
We washed the cars today and I snapped a few pictures:

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The Si in stock form is an awesome car for its own reasons. Honda can produce a lot of power, but they like to do it very high in the rev range. You have to work to get the power out of the engine, but the reward is a really awesome sound and really nice power.

Yea, the torque and HP numbers can't compete with the Speed3, but the 0-60 is still very respectable and a lot of fun can be extracted from this car (plus it gets ridiculous gas mileage).

Since we've gotten the car, I've run into quite a bit of Honda hate from Nissan Z enthusiasts in real life and internet message boards. Visiting some of the Civic forums, I can understand the e-hate. A lot of the owners are just kids who can barely form a sentence or use punctuation. And they tend to buy the cheapest ebay "jdm" mods they can find and slap them on.

I think the Civic hate stems from a lot of the young-punk types who own them. It can put a bit of a stigma on the car, but it's still an incredible feat of engineering when viewed from a vacuum. My friend with a 700whp Z06 gave us the thumbs up when we bought the Si, so those Z guys can go to hell.

And really, my wife is very happy with the car and loves to rev it and is glad to be back in a manual. A happy wife is a good thing! She's getting very interested in race driving. She even wants me to take us to Skip Barber racing school and purchase the Logitech G25 and playseat setup so we can practice our cornering and power shifting without wasting gas and putting people in danger on public roads! (2thumbs)
 
Nawz and a 2SOONJR license plate.

haha this guyz a hoot. Honda power man.

I personally like the honda digital gauge cluster, I really think that is a neeto effect. Much easier to read the digital number than the needle, but the whole civic console is surprising nice looking.

Now if WE could have the sexy tach like the S2000 with the digital lines that would rock in the speed3
 
Indeed! I would at least like the tach to take center stage on the 3 like it does in the Si. Oh well... probably should be paying more attention to speed anyway.
 
my .2 cents i think the new model is nice I love it in the blue. They do sound great. R&T gave it the best all around drivability some time ago when the MS3 came out.

p.s. D-Nixon every damn post you put up here someone comments on the sig... I remember the thread where we got you to switch from the shoe laces HAHAHA still cracks me up.
 
Haha yea that was legendary. I forgot the name of the poster who made me the sig (sorry bro), but I could probably dig it up in the old thread.

Last night I helped a friend install HID's in an 06 Civic EX. They were ebay specials (ultra bright and obnoxious)!
 
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