Honda Civic Type R

Redglare

word on the street is that is was running slicks and modded to hell, but who knows.

I hope honda comes back up and pumps out some enthutiast cars, the days of oddysey mini vans are numbered.

ZCanadian

Agree with the second half, but the fist sentence is BS.

From Top Gear magazine:

“The development car that achieved the lap time was technically representative of production specification,” says Honda. “A full floating roll cage was installed for safety reasons, but its presence did not provide any additional rigidity to the body frame.

“The extra weight of the cage was compensated for by the temporary removal of the infotainment system and rear seats. The car was using road legal track-focused tyres.”

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/hot...urgring-record

Redglare

not sure which article I read it in, but apparently the tires it ran on won't come stock from the factory, if that is, in fact, true it is a big deal, it would be tantamount to Nissan slapping slicks on the 370 and saying it runs 0-60 in 4 sec flat, then sell it with some summer tires that run 5 sec.

I do hope the type r succeeds and crushes everything out there from the factory, this would be a nice kick in the *** to all the manufacturers, another capable competitor enters the arena.