Today
the Honda Civic is largely a commodity car. The same can be said for
the sportier Si model—it's just mediocre. But that was not the case with
the Civic Si's of the 1980s and 1990s. Like the 1955 Chevy and 1932
Ford before it, the unassuming Honda Civic grew to become the most
popular car for young performance-minded enthusiasts—in the Civic's
case, during the height of the sport compact car movement and The Fast and the Furious generation.
Honda Civics and Si models were modified with incredibly stout engine blocks and turbocharged to within an inch of their lives to create front-wheel-drive machines that could devastate larger, more expensive cars in a drag race. Civics owners modded them for road course work, too, and they could be built to handle better than many of the compact cars at the time.
Our favorite model was the 1999 Civic Si. It was a brilliant-handling coupe thanks to its strut front and multilink rear suspension. And it could rip to 60 mph in 7.2 seconds—not too shabby for the time. The latest Civic Si is much faster, but it doesn't have the soul of the older cars.
Honda Civics and Si models were modified with incredibly stout engine blocks and turbocharged to within an inch of their lives to create front-wheel-drive machines that could devastate larger, more expensive cars in a drag race. Civics owners modded them for road course work, too, and they could be built to handle better than many of the compact cars at the time.
Our favorite model was the 1999 Civic Si. It was a brilliant-handling coupe thanks to its strut front and multilink rear suspension. And it could rip to 60 mph in 7.2 seconds—not too shabby for the time. The latest Civic Si is much faster, but it doesn't have the soul of the older cars.
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