What's Veeky Forums's opinion on the Honda Element?

Awesome little car, severely under-rated. AWD and manual available, super functional. Plastic interior can be cleaned easily, seats removed/swung up easily, has absolutely fucking B A S E D suicide doors, and a great little half-tailgate with liftback - the perfect combination.

Would've been great if they weren't so underpowered though, these things are positively S L O W.

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My friend had one, and we took many roadtrips in it. Very comfy car, with a lot of room for everything. While it only seats 4, you can easily, and comfortably fit 6 people. There is enough room between the seats for 2 people to sit on the floor.

Eh mileage. Slow. Un-Hondaesque interior styling, feels cheap, but is durable.

Too bad they stopped making them, and now they are like 10 years old, so its hard to recommend. not many people take care of these cars.

Looking at an '06 with 180k with an asking price of $4500. What do?

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Buy it nigga. I'm in Onterrible and I can't find a decent one for under $10,000.

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>these things are positively S L O W.
K20A2 head swap and K-Pro.

>bye bye whatever shit mileage it got before, hello V8 mileage
If you wanted to get shit mileage with a small displacement engine you could have considered a rotary

>all those mods on a ridgeline

the transmission literally overheats going up a hill.

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Really good example of what you get when you let engineers and designers lead a project instead of accountants and lawyers.
It really did need a bigger engine, though.

I think it's cool but it definitely needs more ground clearance for what they intended the purpose to be.