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Who should the credit go to?
When a car is heavily modified through aftermarket parts, is this really an example of the original suppliers car's performance? For the sake of argument, I'll use a Civic. Honda builds a small, economical car with no known intentions of it being used as a race vehicle. Let's just say you tear out the interior, engine, suspension, tires, wheels, etc., thus completely stripping the vehicle. You put in a forged 8 cylinder engine, twin turbo to replace the original one. You put in a pedders suspension setup, and put Mickey Thompson drag radials on it. You replace the seats with lightweight racing seats, as well as leave nothing in the car that can be as expendable weight. Admittedly this is a fast ride, however is this an achievement of Honda's engineering, or the aftermarket companies?
(Disclaimer, I really don't know that much about modifying Hondas so I might have gottten some aftermarket suppliers wrong lol, but names are not the point; the point is replacing the parts with something unrelated to Honda.)
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