No more Type-R in Europe

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Yay for emissions laws!

That's a few jobs down the pan too surely. Well thought out regulations I'm sure, seeing as they're still going to make them and ship them outside the EU anyway.

Shame Honda don't have a sister/daughter company making 3 pot diesel tree planters like ther other players. Even though this Type-R isn't the best one, it's another sad sign of things to come with their S2000 and NSX also out of production.
 
huh

how the hell does Euro V work.

If the civic type R wont pass, how the heck does the lamborghini gallardo with its 5.0 V10 remain on sale ?

*edit* found this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_emission_standards

looks as though the biggest difference between Euro IV and Euro V is the introduction of a particulate matter limit and a Non-methane hydrocarbons limit.
 
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great.....just great.


I thought something was up when I went for my service a day or 2 ago. Normally honda have a few CTR's outside, yet they had none. All replaced with the CR-Z.
 
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Great for existing owners I guess. They'll hold their value well.
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At first thought maybe, but I doubt it massively.

The car has already been on sale for what 3 years so has depreciated normally over that time, plus it's going out of production right as they change to a new model Civic, so in realitity they simply are not going to make a Type R of the new Civic for UK markets.

They've sold 17k cars in the p[ast 3 years, one could assume with the £2.5k discount, finance offers and special stuff they are doing they may hit 19k-20k before production ends - hardly a limited run of cars.

There is not going to be anything special about the last batch as far as I can see, so who would want to spend say an extra £5k just so say they bought a Civic Type R made within 3 months of production ending, when earlier examples depreciated normally.
 
That's why old cars are the cars of the future for anyone who likes cars.

I love driving past Prius's and diesel misery wagons in my 5 litre Z28, undoing all their eco do goodyness.
 
What a shame. Echo the sentiments than the FN2 R aint the hottest, but it's still a rather unique drive because of the engine.
 
You'd think honda being one of the leaders in developing these new "Eco" cars, that the Euro Nazi's would give them a little space to manuever.
 
What is even more annoying is in the US/Canada they just don't care...just seems Europe/UK is the place where they are trying to kill off the car :(
 
Shame the last model (FN2) ended up being worse than the one that came before it (EP3).

(EK9 owners will probably say they got progressively worse :))
 
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