{"id":51139,"date":"2026-03-20T21:01:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T02:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51139"},"modified":"2026-03-22T21:01:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:01:51","slug":"if-not-to-tease-with-then-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51139","title":{"rendered":"If not to tease with, then why??"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Autopian<\/a>: there exists a single Honda Odyssey Type-R minivan, and it has 550 horsepower, turbo charged, and a six-speed manual transmission<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve said it before, I have no qualms with minivans.\u00a0 They\u2019re spacious, versatile, provide tremendous utility and purpose, and I couldn\u2019t give two shits less about the reputation that comes with being a parent driving around in one.\u00a0 The only reasons why I don\u2019t have one today is that the industry clearly knows the value of their utility, and when I was car shopping, none of them seemed remotely available south of $60,000, and the fact that mythical wife absolutely abhors them, and feels tremendously stronger about reputation than I could.<\/span><\/p>\n

Needless to say, when I saw the words \u201cHonda Odyssey Type-R<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d it did elicit a jaw drop of the smallest sense, because it was the amalgamation of two things that pique my interest; the adult parent appeal of minivans, clashing with my boyhood fandom to Honda\u2019s Type-R performance division, to create this wholly unnecessary, nobody-asked-for-this soccer rocket of a ride, that has garnered enough intrigue to where it\u2019s becoming a brog post.<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything about it is just so laughable, from the aggressive Type-R styling hints, from the grill, red H emblem, accents, to the more obvious things, like the quad pipe exhaust, aggressive as hell rims, and the hood air intake.\u00a0 As much as I want to lament about how unnecessary this is, the fact of the matter is that this is the only one in existence, a one-of-one, the chic IT phrase of today to denote its exclusivity and rarity, and I think most everyone can agree that in spite of its existence, the chances of this, or anything closer to this seeing the light of day commercial remains pretty slim.<\/span><\/p>\n

The go-parts of it are especially entertaining, considering most of minivans are hauling so much weight, there\u2019s almost little logic to running anything other than a V6 motor of some sort, but in true Honda and true Type-R logic, they\u2019ve smashed in a turbo-charged inline-four, from the Civic Type-R into this minivan, and are alleging a horsepower of 550 hp.\u00a0 And paired to it, is a six-speed manual transmission, and the best part is that it\u2019s coming out of the dash like the random Civic Si from the mid-2000s<\/a> that most car heads agreed was kind of a flop; but it kind of makes sense in the context of a minivan.<\/span><\/p>\n

So yeah, six-speed manual Honda Odyssey pushing 500hp+.\u00a0 I\u2019m surprised the Type-R badge on the back of it isn\u2019t bigger, and frankly isn\u2019t just the entire sides of the ride, like a Fast & Furious<\/em> Team Toretto graphic<\/a>, because if something is going to remain a 1-of-1, it needs to shout it from the rooftops a little better.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s like whomever designed this, they like the idea of being a sleeper car, unsuspecting and inconspicuous, but while they were putting it together, whether Honda superiors or their own arrogance started to intervene, and hints of obvious aggression and performance began to permeate the overall package of it.\u00a0 It\u2019s white and ordinary looking from the onset, but then there\u2019s the rims, and when you see the back of the ride, window covered with more stickers<\/a> than a Takahashi brother from Initial D<\/em>, huge exhaust pipes that look more suited for an insurrectionist\u2019s Dodge pickup<\/a>, by the time you notice the tiny-ass Type-R emblem on the back, the jig is already up that this is no ordinary children hauler.<\/span><\/p>\n

And not to go unnoticed was that the driver\u2019s side was on the left, which is to say that this was clearly designed with teasing Americans in mind.\u00a0 Minivans don\u2019t really have the purpose in the world than they do in America, other than kidnapping in Taken<\/em>-like films, and this would be too conspicuous for crime.\u00a0 But it seems obvious that this was meant to tease and tantalize the American market, and I would have to acquiesce that it\u2019s working, because I would probably trade in my car and our third car to get my hands on one of these, without even considering the consequence of being short one car for my household of three drivers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Which leads me to wonder what the point of this thing coming to fruition even is, because like in the linked article above, minivans now are already costly expenses as they currently are, but then adding the cost of what a Type-R designation does to it, I can\u2019t imagine that there are a lot of families out there willing to drop what I\u2019d guess would be between $80-90k for a fucking minivan, even if that Type-R badge tickles the tits of all sorts of boyhood dreams of once-boys-now-dads out there.<\/span><\/p>\n

All the same, consider me thoroughly entertained by the creation of a Honda Odyssey Type-R, even if there\u2019s only going to ever be the one in existence.\u00a0 My 18-year old self can get together with my 40+ year old self in my brain and lament on how great it would be to finally own anything with a Type-R badge on it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Autopian: there exists a single Honda Odyssey Type-R minivan, and it has 550 horsepower, turbo charged, and a six-speed manual transmission I\u2019ve said it before, I have no qualms with minivans.\u00a0 They\u2019re spacious, versatile, provide tremendous utility and purpose, and I couldn\u2019t give two shits less about the reputation that comes with being a … Continue reading If not to tease with, then why??<\/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":[176,51,100,29,157,87,129,83],"class_list":["post-51139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-murica","tag-cars","tag-comparison","tag-fantasy","tag-fast-furious","tag-initial-d","tag-nostalgia","tag-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51139","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=51139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51141,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51139\/revisions\/51141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}