The Money Pit
$27K is no biggie once you get behind the wheel
By Jonathan Thompson, Photos by Rodrez

People love to collect things. At one point, everyone collected pogs. They all knew which kid had the most pogs or the coolest slammers in the schoolyard. Those were the days, but as people age they often begin to collect more expensive things. Raul Ramirez also collects things. Raul likes to collect Civic hatchbacks, however, he’s gone through too many right-hand-drive and left-hand-drive Hondas for us to list. Eventually though, Raul settled on one hatch in particular to be his ultimate slammer.
No doubt Raul, a native of Oakland, Calif., knows how to get hyphy like Keak da Sneak in the “Super Hyphy” music video. But what’s better than humming “dumb ditty dumb” with a thizz face at a sideshow? Owning a K-powered, Porsche Carrera GT3 white hatch and driving it daily that’s what. “I love driving the car daily; I love the loud exhaust,” Raul says. “I also live in Nevada where we don’t have smog, so 3-inch piping is cool. I know you’re jealous,” he says referring to those of us who reside in just about the strictest emissions state west of his pad… Pick up a copy of the September, 2008 issue of Honda Tuning for more.