0-60 : I don’t care. It’s 4.9ish seconds but seriously, it doesn’t matter.
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Guy who did stuff: Yousef Alvi
This red shining example of Japanese engineering perfection is one of the best vehicles on sale today.
I’ll go as far to say it’s one of the best vehicles in the past decade
Further more…one of the best vehicles ever made!
Yes. I have said this before and I’ll say it ad nauseum. The Honda Civic Type R perfectly blends everyday practicality, frugality, eco mindedness WITH straight-to-the-track utter dominance. In the hands of anyone, the Type R can and will make you a better driver.
Intuitive is the best word to describe it.
Carry too much speed into a corner?
Don’t worry about it. The brakes will save you and the brilliant turn in will help you scrub off speed.
Not enough steering angle for this decrease radius turn?
Don’t worry about it. Let off the gas, the nose will scoot back in…the Type R got you.
Completely missed the apex?
Don’t worry about it. Same thing as above but add more steering input. Heck. The idyllic weighted clutch, aforementioned shiftter and brilliant rev matching, makes learning to drive a manual an easy to grasp task.
It’s all due to the way the Type R speaks to you. It does so in ways, short of a Miata, no other modern vehicle speaks to you. Everything control surface is transmitting information to you…easily digestible and understandable information. It’s not overwhelming, it’s exacting. Exacting, so you can quickly react, overcome and succeed in whatever you are trying to do behind the wheel.
You know where the front wheels are pointed. You know how much grip the tires will give you and therefore how much power to give. The steering feeds atomic levels of information through your fingers and all of those factors gives you unwavering confidence.
Case in point.
Those pretty pictures you see? Welp, that taken right after an apolopytic thunderstorm on top of a mountain. Oh it wasn’t planned at all, the weather forecast said ‘bright and sunny’. The second got to the first corner…the sky opened up with a torrential downpour with nearly zero visibility. Which on a twisty mountain road with blind corners…is a less than ideal situation.
BUT, the confidence the Type R imparts to it’s driver, the solidity of the chassis working concert with the mechanical symphony of the drivetrain and all of that transmitted through the gold standard of tires, a set of Michelin Pilot Sport 4S…the only thing I did was shrug my shoulders and drove on without a care in the world.