{"id":45635,"date":"2018-01-24T15:36:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T19:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45635"},"modified":"2020-08-05T15:36:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T19:36:37","slug":"growing-up-type-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45635","title":{"rendered":"Growing Up Type-R"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I know I touched on this subject before<\/a> in the past at some point, but seeing as how the car has been green lit<\/a> very similarly to the initial concepts, it doesn\u2019t hurt to revisit this.\u00a0 Sure, cars rarely change dramatically from their concept stages, and I wasn\u2019t expecting the Civic Type-Riceboy<\/a> to go from Gran Turismo Edit B pocket rocket to a sleek sophisticated sleeper<\/a>, but we all can wish, right?<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, upon seeing the updated photos of the release model, the first thought that popped into my head was the immediate comparison to the Homer Simpson car that tanked his half-brother\u2019s original fortune, that\u2019s how clown-y it looked, with its giant spoiler<\/a> that I\u2019m sure will be described as \u201caggressive\u201d and face that looks like a smashed down Stormtrooper helmet.<\/span><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s just the superficial details that aren\u2019t to the standard that I once held the vaunted Civic Type-R when I was still 19.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mechanically, it\u2019s definitely the strongest Civic, and one of the strongest Hondas in general off the factory line in history, but there too, it seems to have lost all the cool shit that made Hondas back in the late 90s.\u00a0 An alleged 306 horsepower is advertised, but it\u2019s coming from a turbocharged 2.0 liter with a redline of \u201cjust\u201d 6,500 rpm.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What I always thought was cool and admirable in the past was that Honda was a maker that didn\u2019t use turbos, and scratched and clawed for every single horsie out of their lightweight and smaller motors using superior engineering and technological advances.\u00a0 The old Integra Type-R managed to squeeze an alleged 210 horses out of a 1.8 liter inline four at the redline of 8,500 rpm, and then there were the old S2000s that somehow managed to churn out 240 horsepower out of a 2.0 liter I4 at 9,000 rpm.\u00a0 VTEC wasn\u2019t so much of a meme back then as much as it was a pretty amazing advance in engineering that stretched the imaginations of power into reality.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sure, times changes and technology advances.\u00a0 And I\u2019d wager that this Civic Type-R would be as long lasting and reliable as every cheapskate uncle\u2019s 1998 Civic EX that is still on the road to this day, but way, way faster.\u00a0 But I can\u2019t help but feel like Honda has kind of left what methodologies and engineering that put them on the map and brought them to the dance.\u00a0 By slapping on a turbo and spinning motors to 6,500 rpm, the Civic Type-R is now sparsely different than a turbocharged Mazdaspeed, or a Focus RS, but without the AWD, or the competitive price tag.<\/span><\/p>\n

And as much as the aforementioned article touts the Civic Type-R to be a \u201cmiddle finger to Ferraris, Lamborghinis and other unobtainable exotics,\u201d at an estimated $34,000 for a<\/em> Honda Civic<\/em>, they\u2019re also positioning themselves as a middle finger to those who will be priced out of the car that was ironically once the standard in affordable, reliable and decent looking.<\/span><\/p>\n

I guess this is yet another one of those \u201cwelp, must be growing up\u201d things, that I\u2019m not salivating at the sight of this car.\u00a0 Sure, I think it\u2019s cool that a Civic Type-R has finally made it stateside, but it\u2019s also like 20 years too late for me to really care.\u00a0 Not to mention the fact that today\u2019s idea of aesthetics have made it look like a Homer Simpson car.\u00a0 Easy pass on this, as a viable option for a future car.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know I touched on this subject before in the past at some point, but seeing as how the car has been green lit very similarly to the initial concepts, it doesn\u2019t hurt to revisit this.\u00a0 Sure, cars rarely change dramatically from their concept stages, and I wasn\u2019t expecting the Civic Type-Riceboy to go from … Continue reading Growing Up Type-R<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,153,133,25,49],"class_list":["post-45635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cars","tag-memes","tag-old-man","tag-technology","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45638,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45635\/revisions\/45638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}