Originally Posted by Däs Schmoo

You can't compare a turbo engine to an N/A engine. The turbo on those cars is smaller than my nutsack, so of course they are going to be fully spooled and well within their effective range at lower rpms, thus creating a better low end torque number than a naturally aspirated Honda motor, even if the Honda motor is .4L bigger (which isn't much to make up for the turbo on the 1.8L).