It's just after midnight on an extremely cold night (-23 Celsius) and the wife and me are heading downtown to pick-up some Chinese food from Rol San. The roads are glossed over with the black and dangerous stuff, with a thin layer of snow floating above the icy menace. The streets are almost empty, all the sane people are safely at home waiting for better weather. I'm not scared, I'm totally confident with my car's handling prowess and I'm quite cable of taking the car to it's limit and beyond. I've got an amazingly well balance, light weight, front drive, that's packing one of the best snow tires on the market (Nokia Hakkapolita 1) and a sporty suspension system that sits low to the ground. It's my 98 Honda Civic Hatchback which has seen 7 winters while accumulating 215,000km. I'm going south on Bayview and about to enter a stretch of road that will involve taking 5 connecting ramps, crossing two bridges, going down and up one ravine and over another. Basically, a tantalizing 5km stretch of road that will take me to my deep fried squid and Chinese broccoli in garlic sauce. Just before the fun began, a gleaming white RSX Type-S takes the right lane from an inside street. I think nothing of it, since the RSX has a primitive Mc Pherson strut, I figure I'll easily lose him and the guy in the RSX would be nuts to try and keep up with me. What actually happened, was I was pushing myself and my car to the limits and couldn't catch him!!! We're about the same on the sharper turns, I had an edge on sweeping turns, but on the straight away, he'd take off as if I was standing still (which is crazy considering the road condition). I was able to catch him on the DVP because of some traffic. On the DVP to Gardner ramp, I was able to gain a bit, but when the Gardner straightened out, he basically disappeared on me and my hunger reminded me that the Spadina exit to Rol San was coming up. (It's a good thing the wife is used to my driving and she was there to give my car a bit of extra balance for the turns) I'm a believer, If I could afford a second car, it'd be the 05 RSX-S. Pars