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Originally posted by Mr 5 0
Read the article and it's very annoying in many respects while true in a few others.

Dubbing a Honda Civic the successor to the Mustang 5.0 is a real insult to American hot-rodders everywhere, which is who this article is aimed at. They spent 10 large on this econocar and ran a high 14, something my '90 LX did off the showroom floor with 225 HP and a 3.08 rear back in 1990.

But I digress. I accept that using Japanese econocars as 'Hot Rods' is becoming common and yes, I know some of them are fast, yada yada yada, but most are all show and no go and even when they dumped ten thousand dollars into this Civic it still looks like crap and runs right up there with a stock, 200,000 mile 1987 5.0 Mustang that needs a ring job.

Sorry, I'm not impressed and just because some dopey magazine calls a Civic the 'successor' to the 5.0 Mustang doesn't make it true in any way. Flames, gee-gaws and a blower are nothing new and sticking them on a Civic doesn't do anything for me. What's next? A Mini Cooper with a blower, flames and decals and will that be the 'successor' to the mighty 14-second Honda Civic? Gimme a break. What these idiots seem to overlook is the fact that all of the 'Hot Rod' cars they mention from the past were all, without exception, American V-8's.

It's a fact that the japanese econocar is now the car of choice for many hot-rodder wannabes and that the American muscle car is being pushed out to some degree but I don't see the Honda Civic being the 'spiritual successor' to the '32 Ford, '40 Ford, '50 Ford, '55-57 Chevy, '69 Camaro or thye Mustang 5.0 in any way and to pretend it is insults all of those fine cars and the people who built them and raced them, then and now.

ROFL Aaahhhh hhaaaaa haaaa. I got a good laugh off that one Mr 5 0. SO TRUE! So very well said! I can't possibly add to that.

I only got a little over 1/4 through the article and had to stop. I can't waste my time reading such filth.