SAC 441 wrote:

> I was told that ONE of the factors in insurance industry pricing ratings
> was the fact that Honda Civics with their VTEC engines are the most
> widely modified vehicles used in the legal and ILLEGAL street racing
> circuits.A lot of 18-35 year olds like to disassemble and reassemble
> them into quarter mile racing machines.And they are the most
> inexpensive(especially used) for this purpose.And a lot of accidents
> happen in illegal street racing.

OTOH, a stock LX model with the non-VTEC engine is cheap to insure
as nobody touches them for such purposes.