Need some help deciding

[highteknology]

Further narrowing down my search for a new car i think i've decided on a honda prelude, if i can find one for a decent price (i'm thinking the highest i can go without financing or loans is about 8 g's). Anyways, i want a prelude no earlier than a 92, and to show my ignorance i dont' know when all the diff. generation ludes start and end. one thing i really like about the late '90's ones are the tip-tronic mode shifters. sadly, i dont' know how to drive stick, and it looks like i will be buying a car out of state, off ebay or through my uncle. so i would prefer an automatic but i could learn a stick. so which would be better, the earlier the 90's or the later 90's. i would like a later 90's but i'm affraid of the price. Any suggestions would help.

[dbebesi]

learn to drive stick. you will enjoy driving emensly more. and i would buy a 94-96 vtec, if i had 8 g's to spend. you'd have plenty left over to make it faster.

[Ziggymidget5]

Definitely agree with dbebesi, Hondas just aren't made to be automatics and it makes driving so much more fun. As for the car, I've heard the 4th gens, 92-96, are lighter and a LITTLE bit faster. Just make sure you get one with a vtec, and try to avoid 96, cause you're gonna want OBD1 if you plan to mod, and I think atleast most 96's are OBD2.

[highteknology]

what is OBD?

[Ziggymidget5]

That is the type of harness it is I think? I know the OBD1 has less restrictive emission standards, where as OBD2 is makes it harder to mod because it is easier to trip CEL codes and just stuff like that. I know it's vague but I don't know much about this in detail. Someone else got a better description?

[rubix777]

On Board Diagnostics

[preludicris96]

hey, i had an automatic 92 Si (dohc non vtec) and i now have a 96 Prelude Vtec and the 96 is way better. First off, the automatic wasnt fun at all and people always say "Oh its automatic". I got so sick of having a show car and have ppl say that. Now i have the 96 and the 5 speed is alot better. Also i havnt noticed much in the way of the Obd2 and Obd 1 computers. The 96 has intake, exhaust, pulleys, msd ignition and had a field sfc-vtec controller and i didnt have any problems with throwing computer codes.

check my old and new lude at

www.cardomain.com/id/thasandman203

[pheurton-skeurto]

"OBD" stands for on board diagnostics (as was said before) and OBD 2 is simply a newer, sometimes cumbersome, sometimes informative system that hondas use to address problems with your car...

4th gen preludes were 92-96
5th gens were 97-01 (then production on the prelude stopped)

i wouldnt let price scare you away from the 5th gens. point being i spent, conincedently, $8000 on my 97 prelude base and im still super satisfied with my purchase...only in my case i am and will continue to pay for the car for another 3 years. like i said im super pumped and without a doubt think that you will also. definately go with a manual and learn to drive it. you really, really wont be sorry and it wont be hard at all especially after youve spent $8000 on the damn thing.

[rubix777]

the manual transmissions on hondas are excellent. don't pass up the opportunity to get one.

[joellthomas]

can you imagine your kid telling a friend "my dad can't drive a stick"!

[dbebesi]

Originally Posted by joellthomas

can you imagine your kid telling a friend "my dad can't drive a stick"!

haha, that's funny shit