just few words from me. i dont know why others are making such a big issue out of the poster's claim of beating XYZ cars. the thing is that its a natural tendency to talk big about own things, whatever they are, who cares if its true or not. we shall all be happy that the owner is a happy and satisfied customer who is happy in beating/thinking he can beat/wrong in thinking he can beat a Civic 1.8. my this post is not against comments of anyone in particular, or anyone at all. the thing is that this is just a lighter part. we all have econo-boxes under 2.0 and we think of them as a sports car, and also drive them as such, for reasons which i have never understood 
@poster....you have a lovely car MashAllah...i hope and pray u enjoy every second of its drive. drive safe
your life is much more precious than 20 seconds of a useless drag with someone.