yeah, as an above poster said, not even close. I bought an Eclipse GT for my girlfriend.. Manual. V-6. We have raced a couple of times and every time my car will crush hers. And its not a driver thing, she will get in my car and I will get in hers, and she will crush me in the S2000. I can take her pretty good in first, but after that, she just cruises by me in the s2k pretty easily...