...when I tell them I drive a Civic. Anyone else?

 

yep, i blame it on ricers. they keep pushin the stereotype

 

i'm thinking about getting a civic soon. as long as im happy and can whoop the shiet outta people that laugh at me its all good.

 

its ok.

since 90% of camaro/mustang V6 owners that will talk **** are cocky enough to race you.

i drive a honda civic. HAHAHA YOUR CAR IS SLOW.

wanna run for $$? yeah my car is slow as BALLS.

free $$.
simple as that

 

i like being the underdog. driving a sedan makes it better.


nobody expects a fast civic sedan (when im done with it h: )

 

are u sure theyre not just laughing at YOU?

yea.... ppl call my car a rice rocket :gives: about what they think tho

 

I get it a lot. Especailly when I talked about putting an exhaust on my car. Things like "oh man that thing will sound like a weed wacker all all those other crappy hondas." I put my exhaust on, Magnaflow, and it's deep......no buzzing at all. It blows peoples minds that a Civic can produce that nice a sound with a little 1.5L engine.

 

Most (90%) of the Civics that I see around me are so ugly and ricey, I can understand why people feel the way they do about them.

 

No one has ever laughed at me at the track, but we all laugh at the 16-18 second dip****s that go out to the track. It's no different than the jack asses in their new stangs that think they are going to tear some **** with their 15 second wonders. If you don't run faster than 14's you don't belong on a drag strip. the reason civics get no respect is because the civic has a reputation as a economy car, and not a sports car. It's hard to get over that stereotype. We know civics have potential and any true car guy knows any car can be fast no matter what it is. Hell, look at mustangs, if you say," I have a mustang GT", the average dip**** will say, "Do you race?" or , "yeah, they are fast" or some **** like that. When in reality they are truely overated pieces of ****. My brother in law just bought a brand new black GT and the very night he got it, he comes over starts talking smack about how now he has a real car. to make a long story short, we went to the track and I ran a 13.8 in my civic and he ran a consistant low to mid 15's all night long and he has an intake and exhaust. A couple of weeks later he starts in with the, "well if I had a turbo, blah, blah, blah" So we head out to the industrial area in town and I hand him a two car length beat down in my SE. Three times in a row we ran and I spanked his ass each time. Now, he just *****es about how he can't wait until he gets his supercharger. The general car public just has this notion that mustangs and Trans Ams and such are fast. Now don't get me wrong, they all have plenty of potential and are far easier to get power out of, but in OEM form they definately don't live up to the hype. I mean if a muscle car with bolt-ons can be whooped by a four door sedan with bolt-ons then there is a problem. To top it all off my brother in law was whooped by two of his cousins. One whooped him in his RSX and the other one in his 1994 Trans Am Auto with 140k on it. Our cosuin with the TA runs a 14.4 with an intake and he is handicapped with only one leg and he is missing four fingers. I'm going off topic bu my point is that in stock form or even with bolt-ons, civics are SLOW as ****. So if you want to earn respect for civics you have to go all out. ten years from now maybe civics will get the same respect as say the Z cars or the Turbo diamondstar crew.

 

Heh.. before they saw it, they laughed that I have a Civic... they laughed more when they found out it was 'modified'.... then they saw it in person...the laughter got quiter...then I gave them a ride... the laughter stopped :fawk:

Now, I just laugh at myself when my credit card bills come and see how much I've spent on my car