I've been driving my wife's car more often lately because of gas prices. While leaving work there was this black civic coupe in front on me with a shitty fart can exhaust on it(typical). It was an EX and a 00-02 model year so it's rated at 127HP and I also believe it was a manual. We get on the highway, I'm behind him. When we start to enter there was four open lanes, very light traffic. I get in the left lane next to him and he stays in the far right lane and I don't think he expected me to gun it. Well he steps on it and so do I and he didn't pull on me at all at first. He started to pull a little bit at the beginning of 3rd, but once I stretched third out more I started to catch him and actually pulled on his ass. By the time I slowed down I was going 85 and had a solid 1 car lead on him. I was very surprised at how well this car accelerated. I just changed the oil and wow did it make a big difference(I change the oil every 3-4k). By the way her car only has a K&N drop in filter and Bosch double platinum plugs. Just thought I'd share my little bit of fun in the corolla.