yea, honda's been trying to do its best to keep up with the other manufacturer's specs and performance without using fi. personally, i think the past year or two honda has not at all been even remotely close to competing with turbo street cars, like the wrx and evo8. they need to use the s2000 motor in a more affordable car...something that's low 20k's.
also....for people wanting to mod a car, starting out with a turbo car is a lot easier and better for high performance. for one, you dont need to touch the internals if you're running about 1 bar, whereas with a honda you'd need to rehaul basically the entire engine.