Stock Civic.
Stock Supra.
Purpose of Civic.
Purpose of Supra.
The Civic is one of the most popular, affordable cars. It is NOT a performance car, and was never meant to be one. Sure, some models are "sporty", but not "sports cars".
Honda builds reliable cars, their engines are pretty robust, and the cars are lightweight - this makes a great platform for taking modifications. There are so many Civics on the road that if you were a tuner, parts fabricator or seller and you wanted to make money, you would be crazy not to know anything about the car. I guarantee you make more money with basic turbo/piping/ECU/Chip installs on Civics in a year than you will doing big turbo upgrades to Supras - by FAR. Civics have been made fast by circumstance, supply, and demand.
It's not that the majority of Civics are slow - it's that they were ALL MEANT to be slow. The sporty models [Si] are merely meant to LOOK fast and perform better than the lower models. If you want a Supra that is meant to "only LOOK fast", you pay LESS for it [NA models] instead of MORE, like the Civic. Supras, on the other hand, not only give you a functional, sporty look - they also do it comfortably, and luxuriously.
This is coming from the owner of a daily driven '98 Civic LX automatic 4-door, and previous owner of a '91 Supra Turbo 5-speed.
