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Old 03-03-2014, 12:39 PM   #101
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Yet another awesome Type R that the USA will not get. I heard this thing tore it up on the Nur ring...
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Old 03-03-2014, 01:09 PM   #102
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Old 03-03-2014, 01:16 PM   #103
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Old 03-03-2014, 02:03 PM   #104
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Old 03-03-2014, 02:09 PM   #105
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Old 03-03-2014, 02:45 PM   #106
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What's wrong with Honda these days, their old Type Rs were clean looking.

This looks like a riced out body kit Civic of 10 years ago. Hope it at least drive well, the JDM type R drove well, but not the Euro version
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Old 03-03-2014, 03:45 PM   #107
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What's wrong with Honda these days, their old Type Rs were clean looking.

This looks like a riced out body kit Civic of 10 years ago. Hope it at least drive well, the JDM type R drove well, but not the Euro version
Performance is so extreme. The expectation of these things being race cars forces each generation to be faster and better than the last. Combine with racing regards and homologation requirements you're getting these crazy looking Cara. Also car culture has changed, people who love big wings and stuff of the past decade now have money for these new cars.

I like it, but its a far cry from the original type r. Well never see it anyways.

I remember Honda/acura of america begged Honda Japan for the integra type r in the late 90s saying it was vastly important for the brand image. Why Honda doesn't see it again with this car is beyond me. Honda really needs a change in management I'd they want to stay relevant to people under 35.
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Old 03-03-2014, 03:47 PM   #108
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Old 03-03-2014, 04:24 PM   #109
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I remember Honda/acura of america begged Honda Japan for the integra type r in the late 90s saying it was vastly important for the brand image. Why Honda doesn't see it again with this car is beyond me. Honda really needs a change in management I'd they want to stay relevant to people under 35.
Honda is perfectly fine with the middle age demographic that put Toyota at the top and you can't argue with the results as that accounts for the massive sales of Accords and Camrys over very low volume cars like a Civic Type R. Young enthusiasts no longer get excited about the brand but young people are more interested in smart phones than cars nowadays so why cater to a dying segment?
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Old 03-03-2014, 08:06 PM   #110
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Performance is so extreme. The expectation of these things being race cars forces each generation to be faster and better than the last. Combine with racing regards and homologation requirements you're getting these crazy looking Cara. Also car culture has changed, people who love big wings and stuff of the past decade now have money for these new cars.

I like it, but its a far cry from the original type r. Well never see it anyways.

I remember Honda/acura of america begged Honda Japan for the integra type r in the late 90s saying it was vastly important for the brand image. Why Honda doesn't see it again with this car is beyond me. Honda really needs a change in management I'd they want to stay relevant to people under 35.
A decade ago back in my early twenties I liked the big wing and outrageous body kit (the green eclipse in Fast and furious was my dream), but now in my 30s with money, I don't want one, or would think anyone else that went through that time frame would want one these days too.

I don't think this car is a homologation special like back in the good ole Group A and B days, which introduced awesome cars like our beloved WRX/STI , EVO, Escort Cosworth, Celica GT-FOUR, M3, Skyline GTR, 190 EVO, Sierra Cosworth, Delta Integrale, 959, RS200, Pulsar GTI-R, Volvo 240 Turbo, Civic SIR, and many more...

Civic SiR and Type R looked like any other Civic. I'm no Honda enthusiast, but I remember the true Civic tuners hated those body kits "posers" put on there cars, now this has it factory

I remember back in the early 2000s, spider and Bomez body kits in those catalogs, it looks like this
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Old 03-03-2014, 08:42 PM   #111
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This. The other hot hatches in the segment aren't this flamboyantly ricerish. Then again, this is a Euro only model, and they do have the flamboyantly ricerish models over there.
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Old 03-04-2014, 09:56 AM   #112
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Old 03-04-2014, 10:19 AM   #113
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Old 03-05-2014, 09:14 AM   #114
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Old 03-05-2014, 09:34 AM   #115
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I am not going to lie, I think it is outlandish, but the inner ricer in me LOVES the lights on the wing!!!
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Old 03-05-2014, 06:12 PM   #116
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I'm in my 30's and I'd rock one
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Old 03-06-2014, 02:39 AM   #117
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Yep, in my thirties but edgy styling, big ass diffusers, and pipes and **** still make me rock hard. The stacked wing is a little much, but that surely won't make production. Still would.
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Old 03-06-2014, 12:59 PM   #118
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I'm 32. The styling is a bit much for me, but I would still love to see it built.
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Old 03-06-2014, 06:58 PM   #119
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Honda needs to realize that this could be the perfect midlife crisis cars for us Gen Xers. Forget the Vette keeping that title, for us around the 40 mark (or slightly younger), Type-R still rings of the good old days when standing by our modified cars in the parking lot of a Nathans and talking like we all were running 12s with an AEM intake was a good time.

Sign me up. Turbo Type-R Vtec must kick in yo.
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Old 03-07-2014, 01:31 PM   #120
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Old 03-07-2014, 04:19 PM   #121
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Honda needs to realize that this could be the perfect midlife crisis cars for us Gen Xers. Forget the Vette keeping that title, for us around the 40 mark (or slightly younger), Type-R still rings of the good old days when standing by our modified cars in the parking lot of a Nathans and talking like we all were running 12s with an AEM intake was a good time.

Sign me up. Turbo Type-R Vtec must kick in yo.
I'm not quite there (currently in my early 30s), but I have a hard time thinking that a FWD car in production is ever going to anything close to a "perfect midlife crisis car."
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I'm not quite there (currently in my early 30s), but I have a hard time thinking that a FWD car in production is ever going to anything close to a "perfect midlife crisis car."
I always thought a midlife crisis car was something to make you feel young again? Bringing people back to a time when VTEC was cool, certainly brings back good memories for me regardless of what drive this car is. I'm about to put an ERL motor in my Evo, but if this came out, I'd buy it in a minute, just to get something I always wanted when I was younger. Call it nostalgic, call it even silly, but there is an appeal to this beyond how fast it can go.
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Old 03-07-2014, 06:27 PM   #123
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I think midlife crisis is the time in a life that you want to live to the fullest and get the Corvette, 911, SL Mercedes, and what ever expensive sports car one dreamed about when young but didn't have the money, but now do.

I'm sure many of us had Ferrari, Corvette, Porsche, and Lamborghini posters all over the bedroom
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Old 03-07-2014, 06:34 PM   #124
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I interpreted it as something to make you feel young and youthful, yes... but not necessarily to take you back in time 20 years. Just because FWD VTECs were the thing for my age demographic in high school ~15 years ago doesn't mean that that's what it takes for me to feel young again. I view a midlife crises car as something that is fast enough to encourage you to do questionable things in a car (kind of like what you did when you were younger and first got your driver license and a set of keys and had an open road in front of you) while being a lot less practical than what you were driving before, as lot of people in their later years make car purchases that make compromises between wants and needs (3-Series, WRX/STI/Evo, etc.), or even more biased toward the latter (SUV, soccer mom van, etc.), though when in the middle-age range, those sacrifices aren't as necessary, hence the midlife crisis cars generally having two doors and no backseat (or at least a really tiny one), like the Corvette, 911, etc. And at that point in life, they are probably in a better position to get it (more money, less need to have room to haul kids around, etc.).
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Old 03-07-2014, 06:57 PM   #125
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I think midlife crisis is the time in a life that you want to live to the fullest and get the Corvette, 911, SL Mercedes, and what ever expensive sports car one dreamed about when young but didn't have the money, but now do.

I'm sure many of us had Ferrari, Corvette, Porsche, and Lamborghini posters all over the bedroom
That would be nice, but most people's mid-life crises are not quite that well funded. With the exception of an old Corvette they are probably beyond the means of someone looking at a hotted up Civic.
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