I saw the Civic si run and it was on a stretch of road that was marked off with cones and it had the little wheel thing hooked up on the side of it.
I did not see the celica part.

cool car none the less, who cares how much they spent. With the civic all they were trying to do was create a USDM civic that compared somewhat to the JDM Civic Type R. If you would have listened to the commentary you would have heard that. King Motorsports did all their Mugen($$$) stuff to it and dropped in a JDM Type R motor. A authentic Japanese body kit is dumb expensive...
They could have easily put a turbo on the original motor and went a hell of alot faster but that wasnt the point of the build up.

I have spent enough money on my car over the last few years to have bought something faster, does that mean I SHOULD have?? NO, just means I COULD have.

If its not your money then who gives a crap what they could have done or didnt do....

just my thought
scott