man tell him to think for himself..seems a lot of people like to spark this discussion thats masked as a question.. and if he is buying a car for speed look for speed. theres lots of other options then those. i owned an SI and recently got rid of it... it was a good car, but i prefer taking somethin and building it up. so i bought an older gen civic.. itll be fun...so really if u want to know anything specific about the SI ill be happy to answer, but to get into comparison wars is a futile way to buy.