Loved my DC2 and Id have another one any day - however evertime I consider one, other things come along that tempt me away.

My biggest problem is I just dont do enough driving to justify any fun or decent car.

 

Arse-about-face there, ADP!

You can justify having loads of silly cars, if you don't use them!

It's the poor schmucks who have to grovel about on our public byways 24/7 in a premanent road-rage traffic jam who have the issue.

 

The DC5 looks brilliant except for the ridiculous " shopping trolley spoiler" - got chav all over it I'm afraid. Can you get them without the spoiler?

 

If it's aerodynamically effective, then fine.

It's all those old-men subtle spoilers that are usually tat, & therefore chav!

There was a cooking 'Teg, but it's probably not worth the bother.

 

The facelift DC5 (late 2004 onwards) was available with a small lip boot spoiler as a no cost option.





Chris.

 

Big chav spoiler? That's a tradition with proper Types Rs



(ATR was also available without spoiler, but it looks all wrong)

Is that your DC5 Chris? I think it looks odd without the proper wing.

 

Cobblers it's entirely in the eye of the beholder if I like my picnic table then that's my affair. I'm no more a chav than Wineboar and he's about as posh as they come (according to crazy people in dumfries-shire ).

As Neil says, the spoiler is part of the Type-R genetics and would be kinda missing the point without it, it's that Japanese slightly loony styling that makes them special. What makes them Chav is the people that drive em and fortunately for us the DC2, the DC5 and the FD2 are all far too expensive to come into that category because you can buy more bhp for the money.

The reason they don't sell them in the UK is that the enthusiast market is far too small relative the the family hatchback market. They just couldn't sell a car like that and make any real dosh - also they know as well as anyone else that the enthusiasts will import, it's quite easy and relatively speaking for your money it's not more expensive than buying in the UK, just a little more hassle. They win both ways.

 

or there is the Mugen RR Civic.. Not sure the CF with the red works IYAM..

 

Nick, that's the Mugen RR Experimental Spec. not the "regular" RR.

Mugen RR Experimetal Spec.

Chris.

 

Noooo, that's not mine Neil, mines got the chav spoiler

A Type R is not a Type R without it (IMO).

Chris.