# Is there a "modern" equivalent for the CRX Si? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [August 2, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/is-there-a-modern-equivalent-for-the-crx-si/66799 "2011-08-02T02:50:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 16
**Author:** ![LFFG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bb73d2/32.png) [@LFFG](https://community.cartalk.com/u/LFFG)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 10:48pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/is-there-a-modern-equivalent-for-the-crx-si/66799/16 "2011-08-02T22:48:53Z")
Okay! So I went and test drove a CRZ this afternoon. I DO like the look and the cockpit wraps around you like the CRX does. The interior feels like the CRX. Then I drove it. First gear had some getty-up and then 2nd and 3rd were just there and by 4th I had lost interest. I tried it in “sports mode” (it has a button for that) and I even turned off the air-conditioner. I will say. If I had never driven a CRX Si I would probably have liked it. I mean you could really sort of feel the ghost of the CRX in the build of the CRZ but it was really just a faint image of it. I told all this to the twenty something salesman who was riding with me and I could see he really wanted to roll his eyes. So I ask him, “Have you ever driven a CRX?” He hadn’t. "The do me a favor and drive mine." We climbed into my Si and he hadn’t got 50feet from the parking lot before he said “Wow”. I laughed. He commented that it really had a lot of power and I pointed out that it had nearly 30HP less then the CRZ we were just in. HE then had a fun test drive. When we got back I ask him if Honda made anything like that and he just said flat out “No”. He did say that the 2012 Civic Si would be worth a try as it had a 100 more HP then the CRZ and only weighed about 200lbs more(about 1000lb more then the CRX) … but he still didn’t think it would the same level of “fun” as the CRX. He also had no idea when they’d be getting those in so I couldn’t test drive one. BTW - I ask about the CRV Mugen and he said that package was mostly body mods and not really performance. We both thought that was a strange departure for Mugen. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.cartalk.com/t/is-there-a-modern-equivalent-for-the-crx-si/66799)._