I think the "sport compact" era is a bygone. That's the "JDM, tuner crowd." I doubt there will be a resurgence.

It was cool when it was novel, when guys were swapping a twin-cammed VTECs in a 2000lb. CRX/Civic able to keep up with a stock Camaro V8 or something, bitd. Or when people turbo'd their motors with custom turbo setups...and Hondas hit 12s or faster. But when it became ubiquitous in the later 90s to mid 2000s....it lost its panache.

We're too spoiled these days anyways, with cars that are already really fast stock. I mean, supercars were doing low 13s/high 12s 10 yrs. ago. Now 12s is what the low 14s were bitd. Car manufacturers are gunning for 10s and 130+ trap speeds and 650+ hp. It's getting crazy...and I'm digressing :icon17:

89 CRX HF. B16A cable tranny. DC 4-1 header. Generic intake. Test pipe. Custom 2.5" muffler with pea-shooter tip. Mugen chipped ECU. Autometer tach. Gutted interior. Low 14s no problem....The good ol' days ;)

I think the car looks great. I'm happy to see that Honda is stepping their game up after all these years. Starting with a turbo platform, I bet the aftermarket for this thing will be nuts

This is why the civic si and Integra gs-r were indoctrinated. So there were no longer a need for engine swaps in the U.S.
Tuning as whole is not as popular anymore. I don't think it's because of a lack of interest or "better stock motors". It's literally because the F&F movie series single-handedly commercialized racing/tuning and murdered the affordability of the sport/artform.
What was a reasonable sport for the working poor is now an expensive pastime for the wealthy. For some reason, the wealthy no longer go into Porsche and higher dealerships to buy sports cars on the same level they used to. They buy sub-premium cars, then take their brand new cars to tuner shops and have a completely modified car 8 weeks after a cars release. It's no longer the slow caring process it once was. And the ones who do are a minority nowadays.
It's not that it's a novelty, commercialization has placed tuning/racing out of the average Joe's monitary reach.

Turbo engines will hopefully give the working poor back some of it's access due to less complex parts and procedures to tune turbo engines. NA engines cost way too much to get serious power out of, unless you intend for your car to only receive breather mods. This Honda definitely gives more access and I expect it to be an aftermarket success

I wonder how it'll sound with 2 Folger's cans under the back end? If this thing ever made it to the US, I'm buying stock in Autozone and Pep Boys.

^In CA, it had a lot more to do with the fact that law enforcement got FAR MORE stricter when they caught people street racing. If you get caught street racing, they can impound your car and destroy it (compact it). The street racing scene has died down a lot if not completely disappeared. Plus, too many idiots killed innocent bystanders or themselves or the idiots who challenged them (lost control of the car), or all of the above. Plus, since CA is the most populated state with cars, the smog laws are very strict. When I had my swapped CRX, although it just had Eibachs and a subtle (non fart can) muffler, cops used to pull me over at least 2, 3 times a year. I got sick of it. Plus, I thought the scene was getting ghetto and immature (especially as I was hitting my later 20s). Cops were making people pop their hoods because stolen DOHC VTECs were becoming common in CA.

If a resurgence of "Type R" happens...it'll be like a 'not so exciting' sequel to a movie. Plus Integra Type-Rs were almost $30,000 new. They're still $25,000 used for clean examples. The import scene here in CA had its best days. It was a fad at best.

As much as I hate to admit it... I absolutely love the new type R. Definitely a game changer

Last I new this car was not coming to the states has that changed?


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Gawd, keep that abortion over sea's please. There are far too many fart cans as it, this will triple the Fast and Furious DB crowd.

Lemme guess...backwards base ball cap, wife beater and pants around groin, amiright? lol

i think they would, if their potential customers weren't so frikken cheap. :ugh:

you even got folks here comparing it to some veloci-shitt and GTI? wtf...

not even close

FWD? Pass.

it's a civic, of course it's FWD..

but could you imagine a rwd CRX.. :ohlawd: I have seent it..

a small block chevy v-8 stuffed into a CRX with matching drive train.. it was sexy