I thought a Stratos swapped ends pretty quickly if you were pushing on... however, it might have been an old Top Gear/Clarkson video that I picked that up from, sooo I could be wrong.

Personally, as a bog standard car... a DC2 Integra Type R is hard to beat. Far better than anything else I've driven or owned, standard for standard.

The power and chassis are so well matched; it makes use of its ~190bhp perfectly, got great balance, acceptable performance, reliability (not strictly important), great seats, etc.

Down my favorite local back road, I'd take a mint DC2 over an Impreza or Evo becase I could drive at 10/10ths and have an absolute hoot rather than dialling it down to 8/10ths and keeping one eye on the speedo and having to hammer the brakes to make sure I wasn't thumping right into three figures..


Cheers,
Grant