Any car that is made to look "2 FAST 2 FURIOUS DAWG" and can get raped by my 3hp gocart is rice. There's a guy near me, white civic, black hood, "hood pins" 3M taped to the hood (no really, I watched him pull the lever and open the hood like normal), dual fart cans (WTF...I can understand duals on a V6 because it has 2 headers, but on an I4? my ass puts out more HP per litre), body kit that is primer color, dresses all "gangstah" like then revs at the kids on their bikes. Don't get me wrong, I understand what happens when 20ft-lbs of torque gets thrown through a 4.56 gear ratio on a 50lb car, it'll go fast. But you know what, my V6 sounds a freaking HELL of a lot better and looks a TON better than a civic. The only way you can make a bad ass civic is rip off the body panels, fab up a Mustang onto the frame and drop a V8 with dual magnaflows into it....but that would just be an absolute desecration of the Mustang looks so.
And I run high 15's in an AUTO, in the Houston TX Summer. Look at that wonderfully long mod list...not long at all. I even beat a manual Civic Si bone stock who said he was a decent driver. But I have respect for the guy, he knew what his car ran, he accepted it, he hates rice and what they do to the civic, repsects all cars, and just has fun.
And I run high 15's in an AUTO, in the Houston TX Summer. Look at that wonderfully long mod list...not long at all. I even beat a manual Civic Si bone stock who said he was a decent driver. But I have respect for the guy, he knew what his car ran, he accepted it, he hates rice and what they do to the civic, repsects all cars, and just has fun.