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> The difference is that Honda doesn't make interesting cars.

You might have missed, for example the Honda Insight hybrid launched in 1999. Cd was 0.25 which was the lowest drag coefficient for a production car for a decade until bettered by a large electric sedan with 0.24...

Then there are the conventionally-powered Integra, S2000 and NSX[0] which are renowned amongst driving enthusiasts.

[0] actually the latest NSX is also a hybrid

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All of those cars are not even close to recent except for the NSX. And even the NSX was dead for over a decade before they brought it back! Honda used to have some interesting, fun, simple sports cars... But those days are pretty far behind them at this point.

One low-volume, $150k+ car does not make it seem like they "make interesting cars". They certainly have in the past, but at the moment they really don't from a sports car perspective.

The Type-R has universal praise.

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