The Honda owners are just car owners, basically, they just want the average car to go back and forth with. Honda makea mistakes, probably just as many as any other car manufacturer, if not slightly more. The only Honda I ever owned was a 1983 Honda Accord. The car started running rough, turns out that hte camshaft lobes were improperly haredened, and wore out in 14.000 miles. Then, during the winter, I turned on the rear window defroster (as is pretty much required in Canada in the winter), and the rear glass shattered. I sold the car the following summer, and haven't bought an imported car since.
The "ricer" Honda guys are just out and out ridiculous; basket handle wings on 80 HP Civics, carbon fiber hoods, all sorts of money spent to get some semblance of performance, just to have an essentially unreliable, impossible to maintain monstrosity in the end, all the while having spent twice the money that it would take to by a Challenger SRT. The Challenger will not only kick their asses all day long, it will do it for less money, get almost the same gas mileage, and do it reliably year after year, and can be serviced easily at any dealer. Try to get those ricer monstrosities serviced anywhere.
For those who have the ability to read lines that I have never written, please let me know where I have ever written anything disrespecting Chrysler, or recommending a Honda to anybody in any way shape or form. The original post said "your RACE car is a Honda", and by that I took it to mean a "RACE" car, as in Indy Car, Formula 1 car, etc. and only pointed out that Honda's RACE car success has been pretty extensive, and is not only in RACE cars, but in motorcycles as well. Didn't say. or even imply that Honda made sense as a drag race car, or in Nascar. Those aren't areas where Honda competes, and for good reason, they would get their asses handed to them. However, there are a bunch of Indy Car and Formula 1 champions that would see the original statement as nothing but sheer ignorance.
Kostas
