snubnose
07-27-2002, 04:30 PM
One thing I have been unable to put in words until now is that the Si has soul.
Some cars have soul because of, not in spite of their idiosyncrasies.
One cannot look at the spartan interior of the Si, the controls, stick, and wheel, without instantly feeling at home.
No, it does not have a 12 disc CD changer, auto climate control, or red, green and blue plastic lighted buttons littered all over the dash.
But it has everything I need- no more and no less. Everything I need on a long trip across the desolate dead of night highway.
I feel the Si is the best of Germany, Britain and Japan.
Germany because of its Euro styling, its similarity to the VW and the Porsche, and its intention for the Autobahn.
Britian because it was assembled in England.
Japan because it is designed by the legendary Honda engineers.
A car has soul the way a beautiful woman does: you mate with the machine and learn its special ways- how to make it happy, how to maintain it, how to make it howl with pleasure.
Driving the Si is an intimate experience, as intimate and complex as making love to a beautiful and complicated woman.
Anyone who has shifted the leather wrapped, dash mounted shifter from 2nd to 3rd knows what I mean.
I am sure that if anyone else ever tries to drive my Si, it will instantly drive itself off a bridge and commit suicide.
That's how close we are.
Some cars have soul because of, not in spite of their idiosyncrasies.
One cannot look at the spartan interior of the Si, the controls, stick, and wheel, without instantly feeling at home.
No, it does not have a 12 disc CD changer, auto climate control, or red, green and blue plastic lighted buttons littered all over the dash.
But it has everything I need- no more and no less. Everything I need on a long trip across the desolate dead of night highway.
I feel the Si is the best of Germany, Britain and Japan.
Germany because of its Euro styling, its similarity to the VW and the Porsche, and its intention for the Autobahn.
Britian because it was assembled in England.
Japan because it is designed by the legendary Honda engineers.
A car has soul the way a beautiful woman does: you mate with the machine and learn its special ways- how to make it happy, how to maintain it, how to make it howl with pleasure.
Driving the Si is an intimate experience, as intimate and complex as making love to a beautiful and complicated woman.
Anyone who has shifted the leather wrapped, dash mounted shifter from 2nd to 3rd knows what I mean.
I am sure that if anyone else ever tries to drive my Si, it will instantly drive itself off a bridge and commit suicide.
That's how close we are.