ive never owned a yugo, that doesnt mean i cant say its a bad car. 1. the front ends arent that different. and even if they are, they are now making frame locks for the 5th gens as well as others. my spot weld comment stands.
2. product reviews of any product always vary. no matter what. from intakes, exhausts, to turbos, etc, people have differing opinions on them. i have not read one review of these from a "tester" that doesnt say anything different from the other. they also all are perfectly punctuated and grammar- something neither you, nor i, nor almost anyone else on the net does regularly. looking at your last 50 posts (including this one) you didnt use correct grammar, spelling, or punctuation. yet your review is perfect. and so is absolutely every other one. hmmm...
3. with all the beta testers that these were given to, along with the magazines, not a single person who races anything, from scca autocross to a more specialized type of racing, has these. nor did the magazine, which instrument tests almost all of the products it reviews, have anything to say but subjective reviews. they skidpad, slalom, and even track test nearly every other product they review.. except for these. you would think if they made so much of a difference, they would try to get racers to use and review these. instead they choose people who have no hpde or racing experience.
4. i never claimed my strut bars made a world of difference- quite the contrary, i know they dont make very much difference. however the company, and the "reviewers" make these sound like the holy grail of suspension tuning, and if your going to claim that, you damn well better have something more than "they feel good" to back it up with.
my negativity is based on my own knoweldge of these cars and what goes into making them fast. your positive reviews are based on your own biased opinion and some company propaganda- and nothing else. go look at any scca it civic. it has strut bars. it doesnt have frame locks. it has anti sway bars. no frame locks. it has poly bushings.. and still no frame locks. why? because those products are proven to work. if and when someone can prove to me these work, by getting some real numbers, and some reviews by some people who actually know what the hell they are talking about, ill change my tune. until then, i stand by everything ive said.