If you consider the perfect automobile, what does it appear like? Something fast, expensive, and shiny? Well I’m here to let you know that you just’re improper, the proper automobile is a ’90s Civic that’s been changed into a ute. Please adjust your dreams and aspirations accordingly.
This Civic began life as a sedan, before becoming the platonic ideal of a four-wheeled vehicle. It might haul, it could actually corner, its check engine light has been repurposed as a shift light — what more could you would like? C’mon, you didn’t need that check engine light anyway. It’s a Honda.
The engine is a rebuilt stock D16 with two-step, the brakes are discs on all 4 corners, and the seat is a bench out of an S10. It’s an absurd construct, but it surely seems to have been done with real quality and care. Take a look at the seams, or more accurately the dearth thereof — this isn’t some backyard hack job.
I’ll admit the wheels might be higher, the HIDs might be more color-matched, and the cherry bomb muffler is a highly specific selection, but these are small nits to choose. Nits, I’ll add, that you may fix yourself as this automobile’s next owner. I’m sure you could find a unique set of wheels for an EG Civic.
Really, the one technique to improve upon this automobile can be to present the identical treatment to an EG with Type R bodywork and a turbo K24 under the hood. In fact, this appeals more to my raised-on-Subarus-tuned-within-an-inch-of-their-life brain than to anyone who actually needs a reliable each day, but for those purposes there’s still the EG. Utes are perfect, ‘90s Civics are perfect, and putting them together creates a vehicle that I’d have over any supercar.
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