Shortly after, Civics and CRXs received the same B16A engine. But all of this began much earlier—sometime during the early 1980s, in fact—and none of it had anything to do with automobile engines.

Screaming VTEC at 9000RPM! This 1998 Honda Civic with a B16 VTEC engine proves that raw, high-revving JDM fun never goes out of style. Watch it fly down the no-limit Autobahn in full POV mode — ...