more than the minimum daily requirement of both.

Although cars like this have to cover basic automotive missions like comfortable

commuting and errand-running, their primary function is to get their owners' adrenal

glands pumping.

The Prelude Si and VTEC are particularly good at this.

It's true that the Prelude has a tiny back seat, but that's true to some degree of all

cars in this class and we constantly marvel at folks who buy a Prelude, Probe, Eclipse

or the like and later start griping about the back seat space.

The Prelude is designed to provide mechanical sophistication and high-quality assembly

in a stimulating personal transportation package. And that's precisely what it does.

True, it can't carry a little league team or two weeks' worth of groceries, and high

ground clearance and 4-wheel drive just aren't part of its game.

But no sport-utility vehicle on earth can deliver this kind of handling and

excitement. Come to think of it, neither can most other cars.