I’ve worked up the bravery to get it into VTEC a few times, and it hasn’t punished me…

…yet.

  • Mutelogic@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Wow a 97 prelude!? That was my middle school dream car…

    I got my 2011 Forester XT to 276k before I had to get rid of it for an oil leak, and mushy brakes that were too difficult to resolve. Loved that car.

    • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      My parents got me a 2000 Prelude for my 17th birthday. It was the four speed. Pics here, here, and here. It was such a fun car to drive. It was having tons of issues I was too broke to fix so my parents urged me to trade it in. It had about 197k, which I hear is pretty good for the autos. I think Honda had a bad run of autos in the mid-00s. So anyway I caved and bought a 2016 HR-V. Which I hated. Partly because I had to give up my Prelude for it, and also because it was so dogshit slow. I think I’d have actually liked that car if it used the 1.5T they put in the ‘16 Civic. It actually handled very nicely and was super practical. We traded that off for an Acadia, which got sold, then replaced with a 10th gen Accord, and now we’re selling the Accord to my sister-in-law because we just bought my parents’ 2nd gen Sequoia.

      For the HR-V, they used the same 1.8 found in the 8th and 9th gen Civic. It’s a great engine, and it’s a pretty perfect match for the Civic, which weighs 400 pounds less. And I’d know, because my other car is a 9th gen Civic LX. That car actually has a little bit of pick up and go. I love my 9th gen.

      Anyway, I’d been telling myself I’d get another one for years and the opportunity finally came up for a cheap, rust free, manual Prelude so I sprang on it. I just didn’t think the opportunity would spring up literally two weeks after posting my old car on here lmao