The issue is probably more that you can't effectively put the power than engine makes down in a RWD platform.  Hondas, Kias, etc. are FWD or AWD and don't make a lot of torque.  Plus a lot of cars now, even lower end ones, have traction control systems.  If the driver stomps on it they go without wheelspin.  If you do that its a smoke show.

I am now learning the way my car is running with the T-5 and a 3.0 in it. So far I like it. 1st gear seems a little low but the rest seem OK.

MS wrote:

No, TKO, I am talking about those rice burners taking off with a little old lady behind the wheel normally taking off from a light. Seems like when I shift to second, they are long gone.

Little Old Lady from Pasadena perhaps?

Its crazy though, I was watching Motor Week on TV this morning and a freaking Honda Passport now has 280HP, runs 0-60 in 6.5 and the 1/4 in 15 flat.  Here's the trick: 9 speed auto trans.  Its always in the powerband.  My buddy's '95 Lightning ran a 15 flat and we thought that was fast as hell for a truck.  Its crazy how fast everything has gotten. 
 

My 2019 F150 with 5.0 Coyote has a ten speed, looks way too big to fit.

TKOPerformance wrote:

Its crazy how fast everything has gotten.  

You mean it's kind of depressing... Who would have thought the day would come where you got smoked at a set of lights by a little old lady in a rice burner. I don't even think the Beach Boys saw this one coming.

Your bottles have "Motor Oil" printed on them because they contain oil formulated to go inside your motor.

Its in no way shape or form depressing.  If 50 year old cars were faster than new ones it would mean that not only did we make no progress in 50 years; we backslid.  That would be at best embarrassing, but at worst its really an indictment of the entire human race and to me would indicate that we were unfit to survive and would probably become extinct in short order.  Technology advances.  If it didn't we would still be living in caves and hunting with rocks.

"Quick" and "fast", "motor" and "engine"; its all just semantics.  New words and new definitions are added to the dictionary all the time, because, again, evolution.  At some point a word in common usage becomes its meaning by subsuming its historical definition.  As an example, when I say someone is "gay" today we all know I don't mean "happy".  That's a change in understanding that is fairly recent.  The 1890's were referred to as the "Gay '90s", and the lyrics to the Flinstones theme song from only a couple decades ago ended with "...we'll have a gay old time".  Yet today that initial reference would indicate a persons orientation. 
 

TKOPerformance wrote:

Its in no way shape or form depressing.  If 50 year old cars were faster than new ones it would mean that not only did we make no progress in 50 years; we backslid.  That would be at best embarrassing, but at worst its really an indictment of the entire human race and to me would indicate that we were unfit to survive and would probably become extinct in short order.  Technology advances.  If it didn't we would still be living in caves and hunting with rocks.

"Quick" and "fast", "motor" and "engine"; its all just semantics.  New words and new definitions are added to the dictionary all the time, because, again, evolution.  At some point a word in common usage becomes its meaning by subsuming its historical definition.  As an example, when I say someone is "gay" today we all know I don't mean "happy".  That's a change in understanding that is fairly recent.  The 1890's were referred to as the "Gay '90s", and the lyrics to the Flinstones theme song from only a couple decades ago ended with "...we'll have a gay old time".  Yet today that initial reference would indicate a persons orientation. 
 

 
Constant misuse of a word does not change the meaning. The social segment trying to appropriate the word gay is trying to direct attention away from the actual term for their orientation. It is unfortunate that the males were too lazy to come up with as good an alternative term as the females.

If motor is good enough for the Ford Motor Company, it's good enough for me.