People need to realise that vtec engine tend to be small displacment normally aspirated engines with the exeption of the 3.0 and 3.2 in the nsx, so comparing them to a cossie is silly. Compare them as they should be compared and they make sense and can be seen for how good they really are.

crx i-vt to xr2i
integra type-r to mk5 rs2000
civic type-r to st170

There cracking cars for what they are but like i have said above you either love them or hate them and there not to everyones taste, but turbo vtec motors are very very quick and seem to do the business