The RSX



Being a good car geek, you have to keep in mind at all times your potential car purchases for a given situation.

For example, if I won a sizable but not extreme amount of money, which car would I buy? (Ferrari 360 probably, for the sheer practicality of it as the best car in the world. A used V8 Esprit too, because of its beauty.) How about if I were in a well paid but not filthy rich job and needed a year round car in minnesota? (An Audi S4) And how about a practical just-out-of-college car? This is of course the most difficult of all.

WRX? Mini? GTI? Evo VII? Tiburon? Celica? Used TT?

I think I've now landed on the Acura RSX. Cheaper than a properly optioned Hyundai tiburon, it's everyone's favorite car in the segment. It's a honda, plus it'd be serviced by the nice folks at white bear. And it'd beat dad to 60mph.

Of course, it's not very attractive ... but neither am I. And nothing in the segment is as beautiful as the SVX. None of them are penned by Italians. (Though one could argue about the tiburon, but that's more like stolen from italians, with a healthy dose of crazy-korean-anime added in) Don't anybody get worried though... I still love the SVX.

Just some thoughts. You always have to have this stuff in mind. At least, real car geeks do.

Posted: Wed - January 7, 2004 at 01:23 AM          

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