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I hate to say it, but Honda is doing the right thing if you think from a marketing standpoint. Honda needs to keep pumping out econoboxes and grocery getters that are great on gas to be the company that they are. If their quality falters, they're done. If they alienate the MASS segment, then they're toast, and they can't put out anything else. They're an enthusiast company with certain models. Every car they make is streetable, but if it were all about performance, the automatic would no longer be an option....and soon after, neither would the manual because they'd be out of business. Ferarri is all about performance, and thats a good thing. They can charge a mint for their vehicles and we can't afford to have one. We can afford to have a Honda, because they sell so many of the darn things. If they were a "performance" minded company, we couldn't afford to own one.