No more Type-R in Europe
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Holy overreactions batman!
The thread title makes it sound like the whole type-r brand is dying forever in europe. Lets get some perspective by actually reading the article - the Civic Type-R is being axed because they dont want to spend the money modifying the engine on a model thats due to be replaced soon. Seems perfectly sensible to me, why bother spending £x million developing and testing to only sell 5 more cars?
The article says nothing about the future of the type r and whether the new model range will feature one
The thread title makes it sound like the whole type-r brand is dying forever in europe. Lets get some perspective by actually reading the article - the Civic Type-R is being axed because they dont want to spend the money modifying the engine on a model thats due to be replaced soon. Seems perfectly sensible to me, why bother spending £x million developing and testing to only sell 5 more cars?
The article says nothing about the future of the type r and whether the new model range will feature one
TAKE YOUR RATIONAL ANALYSIS ELSEWHERE
EXACTLY, I'M ONLY GOING TO READ THE TITLE AND CALL EVERYONE NAZIS.
Congratulations, you are now my idol
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
Isn't it worse there? They banned the manual Toyota Supra twin turbo in 1996, and it was never sold at all in 5 states
It depends on the state...I know CA has very strict rules but TX doesn't...it still amazes me how many of them still drive huge V6 and V8 cars though. I remember reading the average American family has 3 children and 4 cars...
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Feel like going and buying a DC2 now!
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Yeah its also taken out the RX8.
EU6 is the big one with diesels and most requiring Adblue (Urea injection)
Let me guess: Euro 7 involves a bus pass, or walking?
And Euro 8 involves walking whilst only taking a breath of air every 100 meters
And Euro 8 involves walking whilst only taking a breath of air every 100 meters
Well that's me finished then as I have mild asthma.
Oh! 1 child and five cars here
Also notice there's a new Civic out in 2011 so I suspect there will be a Type R of some sort. They could also do what Subaru do with Prodrive, the standard car complies with the rules but you buy an after-market kit from Prodrive to tweak it, all covered by Subaru warranty.
Andi.
True, but with the Type-R already being a cost cutting exercise that's been watered down to a more sedate hot hatch, the K20 was the only remaining gem in the package along with the gearbox.
I do have high hopes for something interesting in the Type-R brand next but it's always going to be a compromise. If they can keep the high revving hooligan Type-R engine and find some economy too I'm all for it but the K20a will be missed!
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Damn, every forum i've logged into this morning has been banging on about this, it doesnt say anything other than the K20 is dead, so what! Its a ten year old engine with poor fuel consumption compared to the competition, it was due to be replaced in 2008 by A-VTEC but that never went ahead so something else will be in the pipe line lets just hope its a high revving engine still and they dont give up on it all together and bring out an army of dissapointing performers ala the CRZ