2001 Acura EL Premium
A 1998 Acura EL was the second new car that I have bought in my life, replacing a 1994 Acura Integra that was my first new car. My Integra was a really nice red coupe version with a manual transmission and it was great fun to scream up the highway on-ramps in it. I was very reluctant to part with it, but since buying it I managed to get married and my first child had just been born. Sadly a little 2 door sports car just wouldn't cut it as family transport. At that point, we still weren't resigned to the idea of buying a minivan (yet), but we did want something that would allow us to easily stow our little critter into his car seat in the back. We were still quite smitten with Acuras (and Hondas in general) so when we saw that Acura was introducing a new 4 door sub-compact car, we decided to give it a look. The 1998 Acura EL that we ended up buying was an emerald green sport trim level version that had the same 5-speed manual transmission and VTEC engine as my old I...