I love this sort of comment, usually comes from someone that either has never driven the car or hasn't spent any real time behind the wheel. It has plenty of torque compared to 85% of cars on the road with you at any given time. No you can't spend a WHOLE lot of time in Vtec if you want to minimize tickets, the end of 2nd gear will have you pulling past 60mph.

As far as it being a daily driver, it's a fine daily driver! People generally either can't handle this car for what it is AND is not or love it for all of those qualities. Would you believe that the trunk is big enough to hold a bag with all my wife's necessary items for a whole 3 day weekend + my abbreviated cleaning kit (for cleaning the car after we got there, can't have her dirty ALL weekend ) + my portable DVD player + I have my tool kit still in it's stock spot, and still had room to keep the boot with us so I could use it on the highway and stow it when the top was up!

Travis