‘It is insanely powerful. I felt like the Hulk bursting out of his shirt’In my day,a Honda Civic looked like the car you would drive if you were going on an IT training course in Milton Keynes and wanted to fit in: dependable, characterless, or neither large nor small,rapidly nor slow. At some point in the intervening decade, the designers or maybe the entire Honda brand enjoy had a midlife crisis.
If I utter the phrase “black with red detailing”, and you’ll mediate you know what I mean; you do not. The body looks like a Batmobile. The wheels ogle as though they were intentionally conceived as fresh wounds – a kind of Bruce Willis-esque aesthetic statement: “I’m so hard I haven’t even noticed I’m bleeding.” There is a spoiler at the back so substantial and proud that it would only really make sense if this vehicle could skim.
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Source: theguardian.com