This car got the quick-and-dirty shorty treatment: slice a section out of the middle while leaving the wiring, brake lines, and fuel lines uncut, zap the two halves together, bend all the metal ...

If you wanted more power than that in your Honda two-seater, you had to pony up for the CRX Si. I have owned CRXs with this engine that got close to 50 mpg during patient highway driving ...