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I dont know if many of you follow motor trend very closely. I read it pretty closely, sometimes I just run through the pages...but I was on the web site, and look here...

http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/...vic/index.html

ahh yes. The civic type R. motor trend says it will be here and I very rarely see motor trend wrong. Sometimes they are off on there dates, but hardly ever wrong. The day these come to the states, I will own one. All hands down.
I also have a hard on for the Integra type R.

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I have an analogy for ya

motor trend = trendy

trendy = H-T

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trendy my ass. motor trend tells you like it is, hardly ever wrong, and gives you, the consumer a straight forward anwser to every auto on the market.
how is that trendy.

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I dont care either way as long as we get that god damn car over here. ------- Honda.

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no ---- right. I want one so bad...
I want alot of ---- though. I put these 3 cars on the top of my list.
1.mitsu evo
2.ITR
3.CTR

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hey I got a CTR clone if you want to buy? lol I am only across the border haha...

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it's all trendy man.. who the hell is going to buy a new car and throw a HMT kit on it?

It's a good ------- thing I don't plan on ever purchasing any cars that are under 20 years of age.. well maybe a nice 4g accord.

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just take the nice lower compresion of the bastardized K engine and boost it, it will be happy then and it will say thank you
9.5 compared to 11.0 for those who dont know

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its not ever coming because they would have to sell it for the same price as a RSX to keep people from buy a SI over an RSX. just doesnt make business sense. i wouldnt be surpised if they phased out the S2K and it would make a reapprearance as a Acura model, just a thought?

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Those things are still ------- butt ass ugly, I dont care how many lips/spoilers and side skirts honda puts on them, even with the fancey R badge, they simply look like ----. I'd roll a old 98 ITR anyday over that thing.

But, I'd love to get my hands on a K-series https://www.homemadeturbo.com/forum/...es/thumbup.gif

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u can get a bastardized k for like $2k, yeah i dont realy like the new civics either, they finally fixed those ford focus looking head lights, now they need to fix the tail end of the civic

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if you need you some JDM go to http://www.asca-int.com/

---- i just learned something from their site. the nsx is sold under the honda brand in japan not the acura brand.

JDM Yo
http://www.miyazaki-catv.ne.jp/~enju/car/photo/bro1.jpg
http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=ek...om/1091LF1.jpg

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I don't think they have the brand acura in the JDM market.. I've seen ITRs as "honda ITR" - but what do I know about JDM?

either way.. rice out of the box if you ask me. JUst somebody give me a nice '70 (thru 74) plymouth duster or something to wash the rice away. :P

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still gotta love the 1.6L B16B that puts out 185HP, more HP per Liter than the B18C5-R

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There is only Honda in Japan... I mean JDM, y0!

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theres no such thing as Acura in Japan, post people in Japan will probably tell you, your crazy if you ever mention Acura.

Acura is an American Brand, they basicaly took the Sporty looking Hondas and called them Acuras they tot the name honda wasent sporty enofgh ::)

Acura only exsist in United States and Canada, it's basicaly more luxurious and sporty hondas named acuras.

Honda is supose to be the economical cheep cars over here.

If it wasent for Americans we would have the Civic Type R's here long time ago, the old once and the new once... 8)

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where the hell did the S2K come into play for Honda then.

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It was for Honda's anniversary, supposed to be the heir to the throne of the S1200 or S1600 or something. Some old roadster from back in the day. They were supposed to only produce it for one model year... ::)

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I wish the s2000 got discountinued after one year.. ------- overpriced miata is all it is.

----, the plymouth prowler didn't last that long.. why couldn't the s2000 suffer the same fate?

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naw i think the miata handles better than the S2K

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the prowler looks like a POS and i would take the s2k over a miata any day.

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quite an ugly car.

prowlers arent the most beautiful cars, but they arent really a car they're roadsters, and a true roadster looking car. id never buy one unless they made one with a hemi or something. they arent too close stock

in the mid 14s range

2800lbs
253hp
255ft-lbs

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I got to check out a prowler about a year ago at a chrysler dealership. I crawled up underneath it and everything.

It has the 300m motor for starters, but the automatic transmission is in the back, not mated to the motor.. has a trans axle or some ---- connecting it. Just an interesting setup. Oh yeah, none of them come in 5 speed (what the salesman told me).

I always liked to see them towing around that gay colour matched trailer for people on roadtrips in their uncomfortable ass prowlers. I heard that all the rap stars were buying them for some fucked up reason.. like master P and ----.

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---- I wish they had the old 96-99 Civic Type R's here, damn americans, they were surprised that the little ------- car can rev to 9000 rpm and blow some of there hot rod cars away!... ;D

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The Intergras that comes from Japan does not wear the Acura badge only. They are labeled as "Honda Acura." Both names are listed on the trunk lids.

In the article they stated they would start selling the TypeR in the fall of 2003 as a 2004 model. It is now summer 2004...where is the car? ???

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my 94 would get the turbo. they type R would be my daily driver. I want one.

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damn thats an old article

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Wy spend 20K on that when you could have two HMT bad ass CRX or Civics for that? I could build a hell of a fast Honda for $10,000.

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yeah, how are you just gonna go to the bank and say hey, I wanna build a fast car, can I have 10K. you better have some awsome collateral and perfect credit. Both I dont have.
again...I want a civic type R.
I have been thinkin about getting a JDM civic, like an 88-91 or even a CRX from japan and puttin everything in a US car. then put a nice little snail on it...

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you do realize that "hemi" is a sales technique, and that almost every engine made since 1970 is technically a hemi. Chrysler puts a "hemi" badge on its cars to sell them because old stupid people think that hemi is something cool. it was something cool back when they designed hemi heads because everybody else's cars had shitty wedge heads.

a "hemi" is nothing special but a badge. all hondas are "hemi" as are most every single car on the road.

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whats hemi stand for?

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Hemispherical ;D

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Not quite. True Hemi engines were not manufactured after 1971 until Dodge re-introduced them into it's Durango and Ram in 2003. A Hemi has a hemispherical combustion chamber--like if you cut a golf ball in half.
http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/hemi-diagram.gif
Compared to that, Hondas and other engines have a much flatter design.

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hemititus a, b and c

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thus will is right...the hemi was in the combustion chamer. exactly as the diagram shows.

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its cool that there getting a civic R over hear. but the thing still looks like the new civic so it sucks :-X

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I think the car is sexy. I like it.....

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I'M AWARE OF THIS DOUCHE BAG.

its a HEMI, because it was produced in the 60s with a hemi combustion chamber and its a HEMI because its a hemi combustion chamber with OHV. its also a hemi because of what Will said. they aren't quite the same, but the same concept. JAPS DIDNT INVENT IT!

almost all OHC engiens have hemi combustion chambers. but they aren't a hemi!

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ill race that ctr with a 1970 hemi cuda, anyone wanna take bets? :-D