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Seen in Canada

(Warning: the following may only be interesting to those of you obsessed with cars, as I am.)

I was in British Columbia a few weeks ago on vacation, and I happened to see this outside the hotel:

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An Acura CSX.

If it looks familiar to some of you, it should: it's just a Honda Civic. I was amazed that Honda is able to pull off this bait-and-switch. Honda basically slaps on a couple Acura badges on it's ever-popular Civic, adds a dash of brown plastic wood, changes the tail lights, and voilĂ : a second-rate luxury car is born.

And best of all, Honda probably charges much, much more for the glorified Civic CSX. Interestingly enough, the CSX is only available in Canada.