Best car I've owned. It's 16 years old with over 140k miles on it and I have no major complaints about it. I've had for about a year now, the starter is just going bad, and I had problem with the radiator hoses, which was most likely caused by gravel that was kicked up into the engine. Also; the AC compressor seized up a few months ago, causing the belt to snap. So no AC. Other than that, it's great. Awesome performance, and good low-end power. It's also a good-looking car. It doesn't really look like everything else on the road. Gas milage is amazing, even with high prices, I didn't feel much pain at the pump. Average driving gets me about 30 mpg. It's a really fun car to drive, the 5-speed makes it even more so. It's really easy to spin the tires shifting into 2nd, and sometimes into 3rd if you really try. Mine has no performance mods save for a high-flow exaust and cold-air intake.

performance - pretty quick for an automatic, handles like a champ build quality - everything on the car done by me appearance - body work in progress, engine bay tuck almost done cost of ownership - great gas mileage, maintenace here and there like any other car, slowly buying new stuff fun factor - would be even more awesome with a 5 speed swap :)

I have installed an aftermarket intake and removed the muffler, this helped the performance and it sounds quite nice. the engine was ruined when I bought the car (unbenownst to me!) so I thew 2000usd into fixing the engine and it runs like a champ... a slow champ. the 0-60 is around 8 or 9 seconds which isn't all that bad considering its age. it can keep up for the most part with my fiends Civic SI hatch. The milage is AMAZING! I go for around 300+ miles on a tank and I drive it like a teenager, because I am. The canyon is where it really shines as I got the suspension tuned to a quicker recoil and a harder compression I can take the corners confortably at upwards of 100mph. It's a blast and very aftermarket friendly.

you can beat the crap out of this car and still depend on it to get from point A-B

This car accelerates pretty hard in low gears gives an amazing shift kick when racing but the front end is a bit high so the kick causes loss of traction at the beginning of each gear for a short amount of time it handles just as well as my 96 downhills but leans abit too much too be truly competitive on flat ground, there are some sounds that old cars just seem to make that come up in cold weather but the car seams well put together and the engine is in excellent condition, great millage, and is a very fun car to drive its forgiving enough when you push it that it scares you but lets you fix your mistake but hard enough to drive and fast enough to challange you in certain conditions i like to say this is a car not that you learn to drive but teaches you to drive properly.