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Break-in oil doesn't exist and Honda engineers hold their own debates regarding changing the oil at 1,000 miles or at 7,000+ miles. Doing either results in negligible differences in engine wear...

I'm curious about why you went back to the stock shifter?

New house, new dog. Keep your car 100% empty of everything and keep the glove box open. If a thief sees nothing in the car, no point in breaking in.

Bro, at this point you are overthinking this (coming from a guy who does DCF analysis on cars). Do you want a Type R or a Camry Hybrid? They are totally different driving experiences. Stay with the performance Type R and pay the cost to be the boss or take a relative bath to get a ultra-frugal...

lol I know all about presenting stats in favorable ways, but I'm going to be using my own capital here to make an acquisition, so no need principal-agent issues here! Which one would you do and why?

I wrote up a financial analysis of purchasing the Civic Si vs. the CTR. Read up on it and please ask if you have any questions. Maybe you'll find it helpful. https://www.civicxi.com/forum/threads/wise-or-unwise-redux-running-the-numbers.54543/ I'm trying to decide if I want to stretch for the...

Hondata / KTuner / TSP / Phearable are the most popular tune providers in the CivicX/XI community and are the names to research. These cars have a large aftermarket following. If you can't find your question here on this forum, go to CivicX.com. 10th gen and 11th gen civics use very similar...

I always park my MR2 Spyder in the Porsche section at car shows. From far away, it looks like a 986 Boxster. It's fun to watch people go from a $100k Boxster GTS' and $250k 911 Turbos to a $5k MR2 Spyder and do a head take.

Thank you, my dude. Finally some clear photos of the 2025 Si.

Very nice! Welcome to the forum. I'm Interested in buying this same car, color and model year. Could you please take some photos of the front dash, infotainment, and a head on shot of the front grilles?

Honda and Toyota have been copying each other since the 80's at least. Same can be said for Ford, GM, Chrysler/Dodge and every other auto maker.

Such is life, with DCF analysis, assumptions make or break the analysis. Gas could fall to $2.00 tomorrow or go to $7.00 for whatever reason. Monte carlo analysis can model that, but I don't have those plug-ins in excel anymore. As for gas and mileage, higher yearly mileage and higher gas...

It's what I do. No deals to get done for the rest of the week.

Yup

Scenario #4 (after-market modifications): Listen, I get it. You got that flashy, new car to be your group’s big swinging dick and to get laid (hopefully). But Joey just got himself a WRX with a COBB tune, so how do you one-up him? The answer involves throwing your money down the drain by...

Scenario #3 (length of ownership): Typical wisdom in car ownership (and /r/personalfinance) says to buy a car and hold it until the next ice age. Let’s test that rule of thumb. Let’s run the numbers for holding a Civic Si for 3 years compared to holding it for 8 years. Well, which one...

Scenario #2 (Josh’s Question): So, Josh, to answer your question, should you buy a CTR? Here are the numbers. First, I estimated your trade-in value as an average between with KBB and Autotempest using a North Carolina zip code. Both agree that your Si should trade in for $20k because of your...

In a recent thread, a man named Josh asked if he should sell his Si and buy a Type R. Looks like everyone already helped talk him out of it, but I noticed that not too many numbers were thrown around. It got me thinking, how much money are we actually losing on our cars? After all, the saying...

You know, this thread has me thinking. I've been considering buying a Type R over an Si recently because the expected depreciation on the Type R over 5 years will most likely be less than the Si's depreciation. So my scenarios are Type R @ $46k + $1k mods (mostly stock except RMM, accessories...

Would you say the 10% narrower shifter gate spacing with the shifter rocker upgrade and the 20% shorter throw with the short throw adapter are accurate? I want to tighten up my shifter somewhat, but I still like to row my gears. I don't really like very short shifters.