How can you not like
this Honda? It's not expensive to build at all. If you want to go fast, it's a really cheap way to do it. Start with a 2,000# car. My '87 Civic wagon weighs 2,084 and with only 76 hp it scoots right along. I don't like fart pipes and that either, but these are good cars. And I've got 345 miles on this tank and 1/8 left.
If you are going to hate something, let it be something that is bad. An American skunk smells worse than a Japanese flower. I'm often floored by the ignorance--it worries me. Some people can't seperate what is good and what is garbage. That's okay, but these people are often the loudest and most insistent. This is why I am a stickler for facts and numbers. If you say something is a piece of crap or that something is good--prove it.
For instance, give me evidence that a Ridgeline is garbage. Most people don't even know what a unit body is. A Ridgeline is not what you identify as a unit body (or unibody). A Ridgeline has a complete frame that is welded to the body. The unibody you are thinking of has no frame--it has short little bits of frame on either end tacked or bolted to the body. A Ridgeline stacks up well against any mid-sized pickup, even if it isn't in anyone's opinion. And it has a better engine and tranny than a Ranger--it's a manual tranny adapted to an automatic--shaft and countershaft, not planetaries. You won't notice that it is primarily FWD. It comes with a selectable rear locking axle and it definately chirps and barks the tires when you use it on dry pavement. Its the best midsized pickup there is, but hiding behind rhetoric will keep you from discovering this.
If you are astute, you will hate the shitheap 70s and 80s American cars and UAW workers that destroyed the industry in this country. These garbage buckets were so damned bad that people were willing to try anything to get a car that got decent mileage and didn't fall apart. My proof is that the Japanese were able to go from being laughed at for making cheap crap out of stamped steel to being the #1 automakers in this country. How did that happen? Asshole un-American bastards wanted quality in return for their money. Nobody let the Japanese in. No crime was commited. A human being has a right to receive goods in kind for his/her labor. Who wants a 3,500# pig with 90hp that the seatbelt spool cover comes up when you go to buckle your belt. The doors sag and you have to lift to close. The door panel must be closed seperately from the door. There's one big speedometer, and a big friggen clock that is simply an electric motor that doesn't have quartz movement and can't tell time because time changes depending on the voltage--and the rest of the dash is idiot lights arranged in a circle with some painted lines. And after 40,000 miles the speedo needle is waving at you like it's saying hello. Those vinyl tops that look like the car has mange after a couple years--and the paint fades off the hood in a year. And, unable to actually think of something new, these guys started in 1967 to destroy their engines with timing retarders, air injection (smog) pumps instead of doing combustion research. The Civic was passing emissions without a catalytic converter in the 70s and 80s.
The American automakers had a LLLOOONNNGGG history of abusing patriotic consumers. Designing things to FAIL. That's criminal in my mind. We bought those cars. Eventually even Detroit learned that you can't fool everyone all of the time. They starting building decent cars in the 90s, but the greedy autoworkers, who thought they were doing something so dam important screing in three bolts everytime a can came by, they refused to let go of the tit. And the guy wanting to buy an American car was going to pay for more than the quality he was getting--he was going to pay all of those criminally obtained benefit and retirement packages. With the Japanese car, all of your money went to what you got. So now, years and years after Detroit finally learned the hard way how to build a good car, they are going down the tubes. I hope they don't. But It's best if they do. No other way to scrape off the old unions.
So all of my worst cars would fall into that period of our shameful history. Those are the piece of shit 140hp 5.8 liter engines I grew up riding in. A 190hp 500cid Cadillac. Whoopee. These are all trash. The ports are designed around the pushrods and bolts and things because they simply didn't give a shit. These are the worst motors in history--all of them.
Some of you guy's worst cars are brilliant designs. I'll admit, some are ugly. But I'll pay for quality ugly over pretty garbage. I'd rather have an Aztek than a '76 Volaire, for instance.
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