2017 Civic Type R Reviews Compilation

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Your screen name looks very familiar, by any chance did you take an EVO auto-x class a long while ago at Fedex field?
LONG while ago, yeah. Here's the vid that I made my avatar from (some forums correctly display it as an animated gif, too):


And one of the other guys late in the day:
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LONG while ago, yeah. Here's the vid that I made my avatar from (some forums correctly display it as an animated gif, too):


And one of the other guys late in the day:
Haha that other guy was me, my old screen name on ClubRSX was Y2A and that's my old car:wave: A couple of old pics I found, the pre-Gopro era ghetto camcorder rig and group car pic:

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Haha that other guy was me, my old screen name on ClubRSX was Y2A and that's my old car:wave: A couple of old pics I found, the pre-Gopro era ghetto camcorder rig and group car pic:

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Cool! I figured "ILovePho" was a clue; I remembered that the RSX driver was an Asian dude. My camera setup was exactly the same (but a little Canon Elph point-n-shoot, not a camcorder).

That day was some of the best money I've ever spent on the car. I wish I had the time and money to dedicate to autocrossing -- mainly time, as most of my summer weekends were spent traveling for my job. I'm gonna get my wife on-course one of these days.
 

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Cool! I figured "ILovePho" was a clue; I remembered that the RSX driver was an Asian dude. My camera setup was exactly the same (but a little Canon Elph point-n-shoot, not a camcorder).

That day was some of the best money I've ever spent on the car. I wish I had the time and money to dedicate to autocrossing -- mainly time, as most of my summer weekends were spent traveling for my job. I'm gonna get my wife on-course one of these days.
Yes it was, I want to do it again, probably have to retake the course since its been forever since I last autocrossed lol. I'm with you on the time part, I moved up here to NY to finish school and start my career---main reason I sold the RSX. Things settled down a bit and we're in a bigger place, but needed a car again, so I convinced my wife to let me buy the CTR:D. But weekends are family time for me as well, so barely any time to do car related stuff.
 

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Yes it was, I want to do it again, probably have to retake the course since its been forever since I last autocrossed lol. I'm with you on the time part, I moved up here to NY to finish school and start my career---main reason I sold the RSX. Things settled down a bit and we're in a bigger place, but needed a car again, so I convinced my wife to let me buy the CTR:D. But weekends are family time for me as well, so barely any time to do car related stuff.
I may have missed my window of opportunity for a CTR. When we moved from DC to MD, both of our cars failed the inspection needed to change their tags (totally legit failures, tbh), and my wife used it as an excuse for a new pair of cars. She upgraded from her Camry to a CR-V, and I got my Sport Touring -- because it was available, unlike how the CTR was still rare as unicorn poop back in Spring '17.

I'm starting a new, better-paying job this week, too, but she's still thumbs-down on swapping the easy-driving S/T for a manual-shift CTR. And I have to admit, I'd have a hard time giving up the high-tech bits like adaptive cruise control.

Plus, if I go racing again, I'd need to buy a new helmet as the SA rating on mine has expired (I think). But that's fine, because I got it signed by Richard Petty a few years ago.

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https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a28115797/2019-honda-civic-type-r-reliability-maintenance/

C&D got their new long-term 2019 Type R....

This is not cool though:
On the way to the Milwaukee mecca, we took the Lake Express ferry across Lake Michigan—impressively, its cruising speed approaches 40 mph—to shortcut Chicago traffic. We should have done the same when headed home because, unfortunately, on the 340-mile drive back, we found the limits of the Type R's extraordinarily narrow sidewalls. Its 245/30R-20 Continentals imply a nominal 2.9 inches of sidewall, which was not enough to survive a wincing pothole impact.

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Pulling off at the next exit to survey the damage, we still weren't certain that it was flat. That's because in our first month with the car, we had experienced numerous false alerts from the tire-pressure-warning system, and it had even activated earlier in the drive. We were surprised in equal measure by how squared off the wheel was and that the tire was still holding 8 psi of pressure. In these no-spare-tire times that we live in, we were stranded overnight, but to our great fortune, the exit that we limped to in western Michigan happened to have a Honda dealership immediately adjacent to a hotel. With a new $1307 wheel, a $296 tire, plus mounting/balancing and a four-wheel alignment, we were back on the road two days later for—ouch—$1831. We sure hope this isn't the start of a trend.
 

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AutoBild - so the video is in German, but you can turn on Google auto-translate into English.

Current 'ring 'FWD record' Megane RS Trophy vs. FK8.

tl;dw: same track: FK8 1:38.39; Megane 1:38.56 MSRP's: FK8 39157Euro; Megane RS Trophy 39190Euro

 


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Based on tach should have gone 184 (@7000 rpm), if they hadn't run out of gas!
Suspect 18" tires or smaller.
 

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And only $10,000/second to go that much faster (7:40 vs 7:43)!
Oh, and you can't get it in the USA.
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