Honda put most of their R and D into the Acura line and cut cost to the Honda line because they were getting their ass handed to them by Lexus. This is evadent in the complete revamping of every car in the Acura line up. Now that this is complete you will notice the improvements to the accord, tuner friendly 07 civic si and the yet to be released redesign of the S2000 that is rumered to either have a K24 or the 3.0 vteci v6.