philipand
RMS Regular
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- Civic Type R
After a short two year hiatus from Honda's and petrol cars, I decided now was a great time to get back to what I know and love!
I purchased the car in September having gone from driving almost 30k miles a year to well hardly any, working from home perks and all that...
The car is the full GT Spec finished in Milano red, all the usual bits and pieces as expected with the Type R
This is a 2017 model and registered as number 7833, Honda only produced a total of 8007 of these cars and only to the European market, not America like the current FK8 so this is one of the very last to be made and the second last one to be register in N.I. The car is low miles, full Honda History and Extended Honda Warranty, very clean and a credit to its previous owner.
A total of 21 of these where sold in Northern Ireland and I believe there is only 19 left here with two being sold over to England in the last few months.
Having driven both the FK2 and FK8 I always found the FK2 to be the more aggressive and somewhat more of a driver focused car, the FK8 has a lot more refinement but this always made it feel soft to me, but I do still like it. The car is very much a complete package, just shy of 310bhp, strong brakes, Plate Limited Slip Diff, Manual Gear box, bucket seats..the list goes on
There are no real plans as such this will be more of a picture/story thread for the car, enjoying it and keeping it clean
Collection day back in September, I was properly over the moon with it!
And now on my own registration
Will update with more photos soon but thought now is a good time to get the thread started!
I purchased the car in September having gone from driving almost 30k miles a year to well hardly any, working from home perks and all that...
The car is the full GT Spec finished in Milano red, all the usual bits and pieces as expected with the Type R
This is a 2017 model and registered as number 7833, Honda only produced a total of 8007 of these cars and only to the European market, not America like the current FK8 so this is one of the very last to be made and the second last one to be register in N.I. The car is low miles, full Honda History and Extended Honda Warranty, very clean and a credit to its previous owner.
A total of 21 of these where sold in Northern Ireland and I believe there is only 19 left here with two being sold over to England in the last few months.
Having driven both the FK2 and FK8 I always found the FK2 to be the more aggressive and somewhat more of a driver focused car, the FK8 has a lot more refinement but this always made it feel soft to me, but I do still like it. The car is very much a complete package, just shy of 310bhp, strong brakes, Plate Limited Slip Diff, Manual Gear box, bucket seats..the list goes on
There are no real plans as such this will be more of a picture/story thread for the car, enjoying it and keeping it clean
Collection day back in September, I was properly over the moon with it!
And now on my own registration
Will update with more photos soon but thought now is a good time to get the thread started!
