You know, I never thought of it like that but you're right! All of my friend's cars I've been in that were either Hondas or Acuras have had pretty low quality systems. My friend's '06 Civic has apparently one of the higher end systems that Honda offers and comes with sub and everything.... and it still sounds weaker than the systems we have . I must say, for 10+ year old cars, our systems are actually quite decent.... or well.... I'm satisfied with it at least . I'm kinda interested in hearing what the SC-901 with the 400W(?) amp sounds like though....... it looks like a monster next the 4x50W and 4x40W ones! (also... LOL at the pics of the speakers ... that looks rather lame... and cheap!)