I still a lot of us are guilty of not being able to look at the question of coolness through any but our own lens.

Perceptions of "sportiness" or "enthusiast following" are colored by looking back at pics of 2-liter TransAm cars. Unless the suggestion is that some "pro" series publicity is necessary (a la Rabbit Bilstein Cup or TA) to establish a bona fide road racing following..? And then club-level racing comes later? There's absolutely no question that the Rabbit and 510 were better than most of the other oil embargo grocery getters, but that's is PRECISELY what VW and Datsun designed them to be.

On a related note, the '92-95 era Civic DX that's currently in A (essentially identical to the later 106-hp model posted here earlier) - what keeps it out of B?

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