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Old 12-13-2016, 01:09 PM
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Default Clarkson review, Civic Type R

http://www.driving.co.uk/car-reviews...-civic-type-r/


nothing really groundbreaking about the article, just bored at work and found it entertaining. For as coyote-ugly as the back end of this thing is, I actually think the profile looks cool and the interior looks nice as well.
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Link didn't work, at least on my cell phone...
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For some reason his link included "nothing" from the next paragraph. The actual link is

The Clarkson Review: 2016 Honda Civic Type R
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Best line from the article:

But then, one day, Honda pulled the plug and decided to make cars exclusively for pensioners and Americans, which are the same thing.
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Originally Posted by vader1
http://www.driving.co.uk/car-reviews/clarkson-review-2016-honda-civic-type-r/


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really groundbreaking about the article, just bored at work and found it entertaining. For as coyote-ugly as the back end of this thing is, I actually think the profile looks cool and the interior looks nice as well.
I'm glad you found an angle you like. For me, I go from thinking "god, that front end looks cartoonish and busy" to "OMG that back end is a joke" to "wow, from the side, it looks like the parts have just been tacked together until the engineers can figure out how to make them fit." The thing reminds me of a Transformer that was a robot a minute ago and is still a couple of seconds away from turning into a car.
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Originally Posted by Legal Bill
I'm glad you found an angle you like. For me, I go from thinking "god, that front end looks cartoonish and busy" to "OMG that back end is a joke" to "wow, from the side, it looks like the parts have just been tacked together until the engineers can figure out how to make them fit." The thing reminds me of a Transformer that was a robot a minute ago and is still a couple of seconds away from turning into a car.
You kind of have to squint a little and view it at a distance through a dense fog.
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Originally Posted by legal bill
the thing reminds me of a transformer that was a robot a minute ago and is still a couple of seconds away from turning into a car.

hahahaha
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Good thing this one's on its last leg, then. The new one is a bit better, but still busy as all get-out.

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Tone it down and put SH-AWD or vtm4 in it. GKN shafts in the rear with torque vectoring = winning.
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Originally Posted by CMK
The new one is a bit better, but still busy as all get-out.




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