[Five0]

If technology is the only replacement for displacement then why don't you ever see anyone doing a engine swap from a 5.0L to a 1.6L VTEC or some peice of **** motor like that.
I think the reason that everyone likes the rice burners is for the same reason that my brother-in-law likes them because his parents would not let him have a muscle car so he gets a honda prelude and puts all his money into it to make it as fast as a stock mustang.
If you drive rice and you don't have a assload of money to put in it to make it fast then you only make the phrase "A fool and his money are soon parted" all the more true.

I love it when I talk to a ricer at the track and he tells me how much money he has in his motor and thinks he is the fastest thing at the track and then go and shut him down with a third of the money spent on mine.
I got beat at the track one time by a civic with around as much money in his car as I have in mine but he blew his motor a week later.
Tell me what good is all the power if the parts you have can't take it and it is not streetable. If you could get 40 mpg and run 11's in the 1/4 mile but you were replaceing your motor every week then what good is it.
Nothing gets my blood pumping like a v8 engine with a healthy cam and loud exhaust; sorry rice just does not do anything for me; and lets not even go into how they look with the big coffee can exhaust and wings.
I guess I will never understand; I am from a different generation.