Honda Bashing?

[Captain-Obvious™]

again...who really cares anyway?

[Twan0690]

Well my opinion is that because they can be bought for pretty cheap, alot of people buy them and destroy their appeal. Half a** spoilers, hideous body kits, and other random craziness like the chrome colored windshield wipers at auto zone. Things like that creates a negative stigma towards civics and some times tuners for that matter.

[01CDMLUDER]

I don't know why ppl always bash on honda's but it doesn't bother me at all... I drive a Prelude

[Sammich]

What parts? Compared to what models/cars?

agreed, coilover setup for a civic/integra is about the same price as a coilover setup for my maxima. alot of things are the same price. civics/integras are easier to fix than most other cars

[Greddypacked]

Well my opinion is that because they can be bought for pretty cheap, alot of people buy them and destroy their appeal. Half a** spoilers, hideous body kits, and other random craziness like the chrome colored windshield wipers at auto zone. Things like that creates a negative stigma towards civics and some times tuners for that matter.

Yep... Honda is a great car BUT... its what people do to some of them that gives them a bad rap. Putting the right kind of mods on a car in packages and peices usually helps. Like some people (not just certain Honda owners but several people) will put a wing on a stock car, neon lights, heavy chrome wheels, stickers that mean squat, and a muffler tip that sounds like a beee. This is the reason some people bash Honda's, cuz some people put cheap stuff on there ride. I have seen some bad ass Honda's though, and i mean there fresh.

[bigdare23]

Shut up, everyone throws the Type R in my face when I say the Civic/Integra series was never meant to be a sports car. First of all, I was talking about the 90% of this entire site driving a honda motor Co. car, 70%of which aren't driving the top end Si, Type R, S2000, or other "sporty Hondas". Secondly, the CIVIC ACCORD AND INTREGRA weren't ever designed from the bare chassis to be a sports car, the manufacturer just pours oodles of their high dollar research and development into their everyday econoboxes to come up with the Type R projects. They didn't build the Civic from scratch thinking "This chassis needs to be perfectly balanced with as little weight as possible and the highest technology braking and suspension we can afford to put in." No they're thinking "How can we make this as cheap as possible without feeling so cheap that o one likes it?" Then LATER as an AFTERTHOUGHT, Honda goes "Ya know, if we sell a few of them with engines that we develop with our F1 technology, beef up the suspension a little, and move some shit around to try and balance the car out a bit better, I bet we can impress the sports crowd a bit." As apposed to the Rx-7, Supra, Corvette, etc. which where they are designed from the very beginning on a drawing board to production to appeal to enthusiasts. This is the reason these cars have "soul" something you'll often hear about on top Gear when Jeremy drives a Ferrari.

Why can't everyone just be ok with the fact I hate Hondas? They always have to throw around the S2000 and NSX and The Type R cars. Of course there are always exceptions, but not everyone on this site is rocking a Type R.

P.S. If it weren't for the Mazda Rx-7, the Type R project wouldn't have even started. Honda Built the NSX in 1991 and raced it against the Evo, the GTR, the current Supra, and the FC chassis Rx-7 in determination that their new $90,000 car would be the fastest amungst all the current Japanese sports cars. It won, in 93when the FD came out, Honda did it again, the NSX came second only to the FD. Honda was pisssed because the FD cost 1/3 as much, so they decided to build the first Type R ever, the NSX Type R, JUST to beat the Rx-7s lap time, which they barely did by .2 seconds. Go look itup in the Type R history video.

I'm not going to touch on the Del Sol challenge because one car is irrelevant. Also that Del Sol wouldn't have ever existed if ti weren't for the success of the Mazda Miata that Honda wanted in on, only the Miata is the best selling 2 seater car of all time, the del Sol, is out of production.

So basically we can thank Mazda for everything good about Honda...

[Mr.Ek9]

Shut up, everyone throws the Type R in my face when I say the Civic/Integra series was never meant to be a sports car. First of all, I was talking about the 90% of this entire site driving a honda motor Co. car, 70%of which aren't driving the top end Si, Type R, S2000, or other "sporty Hondas". Secondly, the CIVIC ACCORD AND INTREGRA weren't ever designed from the bare chassis to be a sports car, the manufacturer just pours oodles of their high dollar research and development into their everyday econoboxes to come up with the Type R projects. They didn't build the Civic from scratch thinking "This chassis needs to be perfectly balanced with as little weight as possible and the highest technology braking and suspension we can afford to put in." No they're thinking "How can we make this as cheap as possible without feeling so cheap that o one likes it?" Then LATER as an AFTERTHOUGHT, Honda goes "Ya know, if we sell a few of them with engines that we develop with our F1 technology, beef up the suspension a little, and move some shit around to try and balance the car out a bit better, I bet we can impress the sports crowd a bit." As apposed to the Rx-7, Supra, Corvette, etc. which where they are designed from the very beginning on a drawing board to production to appeal to enthusiasts. This is the reason these cars have "soul" something you'll often hear about on top Gear when Jeremy drives a Ferrari.

Why can't everyone just be ok with the fact I hate Hondas? They always have to throw around the S2000 and NSX and The Type R cars. Of course there are always exceptions, but not everyone on this site is rocking a Type R.

P.S. If it weren't for the Mazda Rx-7, the Type R project wouldn't have even started. Honda Built the NSX in 1991 and raced it against the Evo, the GTR, the current Supra, and the FC chassis Rx-7 in determination that their new $90,000 car would be the fastest amungst all the current Japanese sports cars. It won, in 93when the FD came out, Honda did it again, the NSX came second only to the FD. Honda was pisssed because the FD cost 1/3 as much, so they decided to build the first Type R ever, the NSX Type R, JUST to beat the Rx-7s lap time, which they barely did by .2 seconds. Go look itup in the Type R history video.

I'm not going to touch on the Del Sol challenge because one car is irrelevant. Also that Del Sol wouldn't have ever existed if ti weren't for the success of the Mazda Miata that Honda wanted in on, only the Miata is the best selling 2 seater car of all time, the del Sol, is out of production.

And yet you continue to throw the RX-7 and Miata at us? What about all of the other Mazda travesties: Millenia, 626, 323, 929, tribute, mx-3......
Just because a car company may have made a couple of good cars, there is always
plenty more they made that suck balls just as hard as any other manufacturer.

LOL at the hypocrisy.

[EP3sAreFun]

agreed, coilover setup for a civic/integra is about the same price as a coilover setup for my maxima. alot of things are the same price. civics/integras are easier to fix than most other cars

Honda-
http://www.prostreetonline.com/x/omn...ilover-kit.asp - $650
along with lots of different companies and options

Starion
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/MK1-F...ehicleQ5fParts
- $1500.00

Mookeeh is the only company that makes them for us and they are superb quality from what i hear but thats it, Unless you wanna buy some for a different car and make them work.

Honda strut bar 30 bucks or less, Starion? 130.

Hondas and pretty much any other mainstream car is cheap to modify. Compare them against some random car like a Starion or some bizarre old euro sports cars and you'll see a price difference though.

[Sammich]

i believe the same tein set up for my max and a civic is maybe about 2-300 difference...

[afwfjustin]

Some of us like building unique cars, others like to look like everybody else. You can say the same for how you dress as well.

And there is nothing you can do to a civic that hasnt been done a million times before. I only bash guys that think that their civic is more than an econobox because they put turbos and whatnot onto it. And I laugh even more at the guys that try to make their Civics look even more high dollar with fancy leather interiors, puddle lights, HIDs, etc.

your wrx isn't an econobox?

People that can afford leather interior and turbos can afford to have more expensive cars. They drive them because they like them. If you laugh at them for that, you're laughing for the wrong reasons.

To the OP, most people trash Honda because it was the main brand to be whored out during the rise of the tuning scene in the mid to late 90s. Most Hondas during that time were very slow and people starting putting on stupid modifications to make the cars look and perform better than they did. The notion has ceased to go away.

Even when I had my turbocharged S2000 - that had 400 whp - people rarely gave me any respect or thumbs up. AND it was rear wheel drive. Now I drive a run of the mill 240sx that just so happens to have an R33 Skyline engine and kids flip out left and right. I get more props and attention than a stripper on the pole.

...and my car has much less power and handling ability than my s2000 did. Nowadays it's all about drifting..

[cactusEG]

Why does anyone bash on them? Mainly civics. Who gives a crap that everybody and their brother seems to have one. People like their civics and it makes sense to have one. They are cheap to buy, fix, mod, etc. They are one of the most reliable cars you can have. And if you do blow up an engine, no big deal, swap it for CHEAP! If you are into modding you can almost build an entire car out of aftermarket parts and the parts are readily available from all over the country. Takes very little, if anything, to make one look good. And with the right parts they are FAST. So why would you bash a car that is good in so many ways?

the Ricers with nasty body kits and wings to the sky, ruined it.

[87 Turbo II]

And yet you continue to throw the RX-7 and Miata at us? What about all of the other Mazda travesties: Millenia, 626, 323, 929, tribute, mx-3......
Just because a car company may have made a couple of good cars, there is always
plenty more they made that suck balls just as hard as any other manufacturer.

LOL at the hypocrisy.

It would be hypocrasy if I said Honda < Mazda. I think as a company Honda is better, but I'd rather drive one of the two good Mazdas over any Honda, just cause I don't like Hondas. But my justification is personal, don't take this as me saying they're bad cars, the biggest problem of all of the ones I mentioned is the common-ness. It's purely personal opinion, cause that may not bother others as much or at all. I don't go around dissing Hondas, but this thread wanted to know my reasoning and I gave it. Again, why should anyone care that I don't like their car? I said why I don't, someone threw out the Type R cars that are few and far between, and I mentioned I wasn't targeting those, it's the kids on the site with a stock D16(or whatever one of the bad engines is, I don't know Honda engine codes) and slammed suspension that piss me off.

So basically we can thank Mazda for everything good about Honda...

And no, but the Type R series was set into motion by the Rx-7, and the Del Sol was created to compete with the Miata. The S2000 is more hardcore than the Miata, so it was good and wasn't inspired by Mazda, and the type R series and Del Sol could have very well been underway regardless, but the cars that have been linked to possibly inspire them did happen to be made by Mazda.

[Black4DrEK]

This thread =

rx7 =

[87 Turbo II]

This thread =

rx7 =

Someone's a little butt hurt I don't like their car.

[EJ25RUN]

This thread =

rx7 =

I think this post clearly shows why Honda owners make themselves easy targets.

[TypeRPersonality]

Why does anyone bash on them? Mainly civics. Who gives a crap that everybody and their brother seems to have one. People like their civics and it makes sense to have one. They are cheap to buy, fix, mod, etc. They are one of the most reliable cars you can have. And if you do blow up an engine, no big deal, swap it for CHEAP! If you are into modding you can almost build an entire car out of aftermarket parts and the parts are readily available from all over the country. Takes very little, if anything, to make one look good. And with the right parts they are FAST. So why would you bash a car that is good in so many ways?

For those reasons. Every make gets bashed. Every make has its fanboys. Yet Honda owners are constantly the people who complain and uses those same reasons to justify their complaints. I guess it trickles down to the fact Honda owners believe they deserve more attention than they actually get.

I'm not saying your complaining, more like questioning. I'm just using you as example to get my point across.

[HypnoToad]

this thread made me lol

[atlxpat]

Why does anyone bash on them? Mainly civics. Who gives a crap that everybody and their brother seems to have one. People like their civics and it makes sense to have one. They are cheap to buy, fix, mod, etc. They are one of the most reliable cars you can have. And if you do blow up an engine, no big deal, swap it for CHEAP! If you are into modding you can almost build an entire car out of aftermarket parts and the parts are readily available from all over the country. Takes very little, if anything, to make one look good. And with the right parts they are FAST. So why would you bash a car that is good in so many ways?

Because you touch yourself at night.

[amped4life33]

I could go on and on and on all day about this issue.

The biggest problem is that there are WAY to many people that do them WRONG...enough to overshadow the ones that do them right. If Civics are so easy to make look good why are there so many of them that look like shit? If there so cheap to make fast then why are there so many of them that are so damn slow, with owners that THINK they have a fast car? If you're car runs 14's and you think its fast, you are sadly mistaken. And dont say its "fast for what it is" because even if thats true, this isnt a relativity issue.

and most of all...theyre FWD, which means i dont even have to say anything else...

[HypnoToad]

and anyone that says honda parts are cheap...check out some SBC parts,makes honda look like ferrari parts,lol

[Black4DrEK]

Someone's a little butt hurt I don't like their car.

^ O no, im not 'butt hurt' at all!! Dont know you or care what your likes are...

Just how you express YOU dont like HONDAs

I dont like RX7 simple as that...


And no im NOT just a HONDA owner!!







O and for the Other guy to call me a 'easy' target... SHOOT at me all you want...

Im a target because I said this topic/thread about BASHING is Gay and rx7 is gay???

[green91]

I do enjoy listening to Rotary nutswingers. I think the engine is neat in theory, but what company in their right mind would continue to produces engines that are prone to the same problems for what now.. 20+ years?

That being said, yes i do own hondas. They are bland, generic cars. My green one has a decent amount of money invested and handles very well and is pretty quick. IT does not stand out. But it does do what i want it to, and relatively inexpensively at that.

[Captain-Obvious™]

I hate all cars except E36 M3, SRT4, WRX (few SRT4/WRXs found in this price), LS1 fbody, RSX, civic EP3, MB CLK430

[green91]

Amen brother!

[87 Turbo II]

Just how you express YOU dont like HONDAs

Im a target because I said this topic/thread about BASHING is Gay and rx7 is gay???

I am in a thread that's ASKING me to say why I don't like Hondas. Of course I'm going to express myself.

I don't care if you like my Rx-7 or Rx-7s in general or not, I love my car. They're wonderful cars, as the honda Civic might be, but I just don't care for them for reasons I have stated.

To that last comment, yes it makes you an easy target. It does so because calling a car "gay" is childish and a stabbing attack with nothing concrete to back it up. It really gives you a look of not having an open mind. At least my dislike is re-enforced with fact and reason and it shows that I really analyzed my subject before siding with or against it as apposed to just saying it's "gay".

I do enjoy listening to Rotary nutswingers. I think the engine is neat in theory, but what company in their right mind would continue to produces engines that are prone to the same problems for what now.. 20+ years?

I'm no nutswinger, I'm not one of those rotorheads who goes around acting like ym engine is the end-all be-all engine from God like some do, but I d have a vast library of information to backup the Rx-7, and I will say an enine having problems for having only been built for the past 40 years isn't bad. I doubt the reciprocating piston engines in 1940 were as reliable as the modern day Renesis. 40 years of piston engineering across many many makes and models as apposed to 40 years of engineering from ONE company across a handful of models, I'd say the rotary isn't doing so bad.

[NOCLUE]

AFirst of all, the fact that everyone has one makes them uninteresting to see modded, and less individualistic. Even really clean ones bore the shit out of me just cause I see Civics all the time.

BSeconds, The cheap to buy, fix, mod, etc. is another reason it's just not interesting. It's harder to respect someone who basically bought a Lego of a car for nearly nothing and put one of the millions of readily avaliable parts that were easy as hell to track down, afford, and install.

-CTakes very little, if anything, to look good- yeah, once again, no respect, you did less work, so how should I LIKE your car for that, secondly, looks are an pinion, I think most FWD cars look like shit because of their offsets and fender sizes, and wheel sizes (in proportion to car).

DThe fast thing goes with the respect, it was too easy to make it fast, so I don't really care.

Just to add to the list of bad things:

EFWD, never really a sports car nor ever intended to be. It's a grocery getter with good MPG and it's trying to hard to live outside it's own status bracket. People just starting MAKING them something fast, and with enough support that could happen to anything.[/QUOTE]

A i see civics all the time 2, but not clean 1z, individualistic, i mean im not going 2 go buy an rx7 2 be diffrent i wanted a civic before i could drive

B not every 1 has the same income a 100$ part 2 you might be cheap but not 2 everyone just like a 2000$ civic might be cheap 4 you but not every1 (easy as hell to track down) i love that im not looking for a adventure

C what it takes to look good agin has to do with the person, so what you say very little might be alot for someone else. .
I think your car is ugly ass hell (looks are an pinion) not all rx7 just yours
just dont see nothing about it, if you like it which you do then do what you do i aint hateing its just not 4 me

D this has to do with the person, not the car

E i loveFWD, i get my grocerys fast and good MPG seemz like a win win 2 me

[Benefit]

burp

[01CDMLUDER]

wow.. alot of nutswingers on here.

It doesn't really matter to me because the title should be CIVIC bashing not honda bashing. Parts are not as easly avalible for my car than lets say a 240, srt-4, or eclipse and I never get bashed by any intelligent ppl. And if ppl hate hondas because some ppl put neons and big wings on there than u should hate dodge and ford and alot of other cheap car that usually hispanics put on advance auto parts. and yes everyones probably seen about everything u can do to a civic but u can pretty much say that about most cars on here. If u don't like honda's because of the drivers than u prob dont like 240s either or any cars that younger ppl can afford.

[tdurr]

so parts for my honda arnt cheap. Look for aftermarket parts for a 88 accord \

but this thread made me

[quickdodge®]

so parts for my honda arnt cheap. Look for aftermarket parts for a 88 accord \

I'm pretty sure the OP is mainly referring to the everyday Honda.

When are you getting yours fixed? Later, QD.

[Z0_o6]

the only people i can't stand are the ones who hate hondas strictly to be nonconformists. they go against the trend, because its a trend. i have a honda, i LOVE hondas. do i drive one every day anymore? nope, because i think the honda awd system sucks from a performance standpoint. there are pros and cons to every single car manufacturer out there, people will dislike what you build no matter what it is because of at least one of a few different reasons:

a. they don't like the brand
b. they think its ugly
c. they think its too slow
d. it's fwd/rwd/awd and they don't like that
e. jealousy. pure and simple.
f. because everyone else likes it so they just HAVE to be different.

[NOCLUE]

the only people i can't stand are the ones who hate hondas strictly to be nonconformists. they go against the trend, because its a trend. i have a honda, i LOVE hondas. do i drive one every day anymore? nope, because i think the honda awd system sucks from a performance standpoint. there are pros and cons to every single car manufacturer out there, people will dislike what you build no matter what it is because of at least one of a few different reasons:

a. they don't like the brand
b. they think its ugly
c. they think its too slow
d. it's fwd/rwd/awd and they don't like that
e. jealousy. pure and simple.
f. because everyone else likes it so they just HAVE to be different.

WELL PUT

[tdurr]

I'm pretty sure the OP is mainly referring to the everyday Honda.

When are you getting yours fixed? Later, QD.

cleaning the block surface now. bout to blow everything off(no homo) and get it back together. Hope to have it running before night fall.

[bluuuurr]

the same effect is happening to the s13 240sx imo lol.. too many people doing one type of car bad overshadows the few nice ones you see..