OT.. Major 914 haters seem common Options

[buhs914]

Am i the only one who noticed this phenomena? I always see people on forums bashing the 914 with insults like: "it's a slow crappy car" or "it's hideous" or even "my Honda Civic is faster than a 914". Comments like those make me want to bash some skulls (IMG:style_emoticons/default/chair.gif) or at least show up the Civic dude in a race haha. i think that it's just plain ignorance on their part, but it still aggravates me..

[MBowman325]

I can see where that conversation was going.

You may not appreciate what some people do with their cars, but for an owner who honestly spends blood sweat and tears (and money) deserves a little respect. Usually.

Just because a car has a killer sound system in it doesn't mean that it can't be respectable on the street / track.

The stock speedo on my Monte ran out of numbers at 80. On loong stretches of flat high visibility roads I'd get it over to L2. The Speedo I have now pegs out at 85 but I know that it's faster than that.

I like the older Preludes and some Civics. True, it seems that a lot of their owners (a vocal minority I'm quite sure) live vicariously through movies and posturing about drifting and LEDs on the washer nozzels with lit up exhaust pipes that whistle. {shrugs}

Foreign vehicles I think have done a tremendous amount of work to increase their performance. Just because someone hasn't done something doesn't mean they won't / can't. Just because someone has done something doesn't mean they're gonna keep it up. Examples of that all over the place.

Show me a Civic with a perl paint job, dragon vinyl graphics, LEDs at all conceivable points and I'll say 'meh'. Meet a guy who seems competent, talk about cars and he tells me he has an 11-12 second civic that he can produce reasonable AX numbers with, then leads me out to above car and I'll be more impressed with knowledge that it's possible that it's a well balanced vehicle.