As a Michigander running P-Zero all seasons, that is accurate. Great in the summer, but I'm pretty glad our winters have been mild lately.

No, but see it's not going to have enough, since Honda has never in their history produced a car with more than 96 ft*lbs.

No, you're wrong.

I'm not talking about track times, here. Most civics and GTIs will never see a track in their life, so how fast they can go around one is kinda irrelevant. Having all of your torque come in at 5-6k rpm just isn't ideal for road use.

Frequent and expensive whats? I haven't heard of those. They must be an optional extra the last owner didn't tick.

Yeah,I know, but ragging on Honda is like rules 2-8 of the VW owner's handbook. On a more serious note, I'm sure it will have plenty of torque at peak, but "gobs" might be an overstatement, at least relative to the competition. Historically, Hondas (Type R included) have always made power through unremarkable torque…

Edit: Dammit Kinja. Owen, while I'd like to congratulate you on your sharpest of wits, I'd like to remind you that that sort of headroom is all but useless to civic owners ;)

Being a 6'5" VW fanboy, tell me when it gets some headroom and some torque.

Obviously you weren't going faster than all the traffic around you, since your reckless lane hogging forced him to swerve into the HOV lane to not hot you. You said yourself you were only going half as fast as he was. Either learn your place or stay off the highway, dude.

I see lots of people disagreeing with you and nobody agreeing with you. I don't think you have a leg to stand on here.

You stated you were traveling below the speed of traffic (150 mph) in the left lane to the point that someone had to swerve into the HOV lane to avoid hitting you. Sounds like some pretty shitty driving on your part.

Look, none of this would be an issue if you understood that it's a lane for passing, not a fast lane. Nobody was doing anything wrong/dangerous except for you hogging the left at unreasonably slow speeds. Not sure why this is so hard for you to understand.

That was probably Futurliner #10. They campaign the fuck out of that thing, and rightly so.

Looking at the seating arrangement, I'd guess the bench folds down to sleep about 1.5 people perpendicular to the van.

I wish I had some. I just read it somewhere after seeing the much more faithfully restored Futurliner #10 at the Gilmore Museum (and then I sat in it a week ago so HA)

Interior space only really becomes an issue when weather goes bad, from my experience. This would be a fine way to go camping even with relatively young children, as long as you could kick them out when it gets nasty. That being said, if I had any form of children, I'd rather spend the $70k on a cheap tow vehicle and…

Came here just to post that. About as awesome a camper as you can get.

I see no possible way that could go wrong

I've seen that exact van in person before. The guy who bought it took it to a car show I was at a couple years ago. I really don't have anything else to say on the subject.

One of the Futurliners has been converted to be a motorhome and is being used as such.