I just want to make sure that if I commit to a 9 it'll be 100% what I want.
I'm about 70% there for the 9, it's a beautiful car with fantastic features however I know that living with a 9 isn't the easiest of things. By this I mean maintenance, it's a car of a certain age so I need to be more in depth with anything I do and it's of course an EK9, so there is a certain respect for the car that I need to build. I've never had the chance of being in a legit EK9 so I don't know what to expect.
I know what you mean about feeling the speed, most of my journey to work is 60mph down country roads (I'm quite lucky in that respect) being a 1.4 civic, I need to work to hit any sort of speed north of 50 (normally drop to 3rd and work it out that way. Mainly for overtaking coffin dodgers lol).
I've never been a fan of top end though, I love throwing the EJ into a corner and going through it, but it feels boaty on the stock springs which doesn't inspire confidence, along with me knowing little about my own capabilities (or lack of) I don't wanna wrap it around a tree.
Sounds silly but makes sense to me
EK9 is a car that needs respect I think. Just how much, I have to find out.