but technically del sols are in the civic family,...i really wouldnt consider a del sol an updated CRX,...the only similarities are the yboth are 2 seaters,..thats about it

 

you're right. in japan they still called del sols crxs. i wanna say the badging was crx-ii but i could be wrong.

 

I never said del sols arn't civics. But the ARE updated CRXs.

man, I don't even know the badging, nor would I care

I can pop in GT2 and check real quick h:

 

drop a b16 in there and turbo that biatch

 

That's an '86 CRX DX.

And yes, the CRX's and Del Sol's are Civic platform cars, and are nearly identical from the A-pillar forward [edit: compared to their similar generation Civic counterparts]. Aft of the A-pillar they are obviously quite differently designed unibodies.

As for the Del Sol, in Japan they were known as Civic CRX Del Sol's. In Europe they are sometimes called 3rd Gen CRXs. The reason they were never called CRXs in the states is due to the findings of a research panel for Honda that found that the American buying public tended not to buy cars that had long names, so they dropped Civic and CRX off the name and just sold them as Honda Del Sols.

 

Been done, and definately easier said than done... Big hack job.

 

The A-pillar of the del Sol is shorter and at less of an angle compared to the Civic. The fenders of the del Sol are more like the fenders of the Integra. The headlights are totaly different than the Civic. In 93 and 94 the del Sol was called the "Civic del Sol" and had the stickers on the rear to prove it.

 

I do believe the word "nearly" was used .

If you want to get super technical, the fenders and hoods from '84-87 CRXs don't work with Civic parts, and at the very least the '88-91 hoods are different on the CRX. Still doesn't change the fact that the unibody design forward of the A-pillar is nearly exact. Nearly.

As for badging, Honda changes things all the time, woopty-do. Add a word, subtract a word, add a hyphen, take it out, etc.