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Man parking & letting it cool for 10 minutes, that's going to shoot your lap times all to heck.

 

'Major European Tire Manufacturer'. Race tires. You can hear how they sound in the downhill left-right complex 2km after Gantry: them ain't no street tires. Also, you can tell that the car has a limited slip or torque-biasing diff. Watch how he exits the reducing radius, off camber right hander under the first overpass: the car just rips through the corner.

Stretching the tire spec is one thing to get ring times: but that car better have a diff in it, or else they're cheaters, dammit. Cheaters!:biggrin5:

 

Nothing wrong with Honda -yes they are popular with the tastless mod crowd, but that is one fast Civic. Can't say I'd say no to it if it were to come stateside. But Honda hasn't brought a true hardcore sport compact across the pond since the Integra Type R.


http://www.carthrottle.com/post/10-rwd-supercars-that-are-slower-around-the-nurburgring-than-the-new-civic-type-r/

 

That rumor was recently shot down....It's not coming from what I've read and checked into. I was considering holding out for it and replacing the MINI, but it looks like it's a no-go. Too expensive to develop for the U.S. market.

Looked at that and the Alfa 4C. But it's 18 months + to get a non-launch edition Spyder, and from seeing all the overheated tranny issues they're having, I'm glad I backed out. It is a drop dead gorgeous car in the flesh, pictures don't do it justice. But when the solution to the tranny overheating is "park it and let it cool for 10 minutes", that just doesn't work for me...

 

Fastest lap time on the ring for a stock front wheel drive car. That gets me on board...

This car is a beast. The looks may not appeal to everyone, but neither do STi's. This car will have a substantial waiting list IMHO, especially when you consider it's the first on in the U.S, and there was a write in campaign to get it here.

This was the one last car I was waiting on, and I didn't think it was coming here. I might of waited if I knew for sure it was, although it won't be here anytime soon. Too late now, I've gone mental on the MINI, which when it's all said and done what I probably would've done anyway.

 

Fast little Civic R. Rumor has it it's coming across the pond.

 

No, it's an Alfa.

What's the point in hijacking a thread if you're only going to divert it back on topic?

 

My '86 CRX Si was why I bought my MINI. It was one of my favorite cars and I wanted something like it. Small, light, and nimble. It that time there were only 3 Honda tuners. Mugan, Jackson, and Light Speed. I had parts from all 3. Plus I got the brakes from a wrecked Integra and transplanted them. Now that car could stop.

 

The 1st generation CRX was nice, but the second gen's where the best thing short of an NSX that Honda sent to the USA... Little known fact: the guy who designed the suspension for the NSX, also designed the suspension on the CRX.

Those cars are the reason I wanted a MINI too.

 

That's why it needs a third pedal!

 

Couldn't agree with this more!

 

But in the end it's still a Honda.

 

Last I read is the engine may come over and be plopped on our coupe.

 

According to this Jalopnik article it has a mechanical LSD

http://jalopnik.com/the-new-civic-type-r-is-a-throwback-to-when-hondas-revv-1689126773

 

I'm sure it will be a great car to carve a twisty road in. As far as the looks well it will be a great car to carve a twisty road in. Remember beauty is only skin deep.

 

I've had 5 Hondas. The last one early 90s Civic Si was a real disappointment. The quality was not even close to the others.

 

Loved my 92 Civic Si Hatch. A fun nimble car. Don't remember about the quality, back then quality was different than what we have today.

 

I had a Civic we bought new in 94, great car....

I'll never forget the test drive, some young kid salesman in the back seat as me and my wife are driving it, going on and on about how the car comes standard with a rear "defrogger"....

Which was a good thing, as there was a nasty problem with frog attacks--mainly through the rear windshield-- causing many avoidable deaths in Iowa at the time...

 

Before I bought my first MINI I came close to buying a 2005 SI that was

when it looked like a Golf. And the only reason I was interested in it was

it had the shifter coming out of the dash like the WRC cars did back then.

That was one of the best shifting cars I had ever driven. Still glad I did

not buy it!