Today I'll be posting (not my car), yeah I wish it was my car too. Honda Civic Type R. An old picture last year during my visit on Malaysia Autoshow 2017, held at MAEPS, Serdang.
Notice the 3 exhaust pipes at the rear? The outer two will be used if you're hitting the throttle gently while the middle one will be opened during massive throttle. Defnitely a plus point for this.
This car held a record at Nurburgring circuit, Germany with laptime of 7 minutes 43 seconds. (7:43:80). One of the fastest FF car that time. You can watch it on YouTube here :
The older Type R once broke an old record back then in 2015, not surprised though as cars are getting lighter, eco-friendlier and faster. There are always competitiveness between car manufacturers which is one of the important factor for them to improvise and compete with each other.
Specifications :
Engine : 2.0 Litre VTEC turbo
Drivetrain : Front Wheel Drive
Max Power : 310 PS or 306 bhp at 6500 RPM
Max torque : 400 Nm or 300 lbft at 2500–4500 RPM
0 to 100 kmh : 5.8 seconds
Top Speed : 272 km/h
I really like this improvised model, unfortunately one thing I did not like was the engine sound. Previous model which was N/A (Natural Aspiration) engine have a pure VTEC engine roaring sound (FD2R) model. I guess we have to move on, catching up with newer technologies.