federn?

in the course of events last night, we met this guy with a very, very nice '91 Honda CRX. incredibly, incredibly clean.

and also very, very light. i mean, i'd heard of how CRXs are supposed to be incredibly light. but if he's to be believed, this car (with the original engine swapped out and replaced with a VTEC one) is approximately 2200 lbs. with full interior intact. O.O;;

...wow. O.O;;; someone else a few weeks ago commented that for being called a MINI, the new ones sure weigh an awful lot. the New MINI Cooper S weighs in around 2700 lbs. it's 2 feet shorter than a VW Golf, and i bet it's shorter than the CRX by a not-too-dissimilar amount, too. should look into that.

the older Cooper S cars never got much above 1535 lbs stock. quite a bit of weight to put on. granted, the newer ones also have a LOT more power, but they also NEED a lot more power in order to move all that extra weight around!

hrrm. interesting, the going-forward-by-going-backwards aspects...XD