{"id":6242,"date":"2017-09-26T20:12:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T20:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theme.visualmodo.com\/mechanic\/?post_type=portfolio&p=6242"},"modified":"2017-10-26T20:38:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T20:38:06","slug":"honda-civic-type-r","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/theme.visualmodo.com\/mechanic\/portfolio\/honda-civic-type-r\/","title":{"rendered":"Honda Civic Type R"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The hottest Hondas offered to Americans often wore an Acura badge, including the NSX supercar and the oldie-but-goodie Integra Type R. But with Ford\u2019s wild Focus RS joining the Subaru WRX STI and the Volkswagen Golf R in the U.S., the time has come for Honda to finally introduce a machine here that wears its vaunted scarlet H emblem:\u00a0the 2017 Civic Type R<\/a>. While we\u2019ve endured a long 20 years of seeing its predecessors rack up accolades on foreign tarmac, this scaldingly hot hatch was worth the wait.<\/p>\n

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HIGHS<\/strong>
\nGrip for days, excellent composure and civility, heavenly seats and shifter.
\nLOWS<\/strong>
\nLooking at it or being seen in it, irksome infotainment interface, less-than-thrilling engine note.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We knew the 2017 Type R was good from\u00a0our first experience<\/a>\u00a0on the less-than-perfect roads of Quebec, Canada. Here, though, are the headline facts from this instrumented test: Zero to 60 mph in 4.9 seconds, 1.02 g of lateral grip, and the ability to stop from 70 mph in a Porsche-like 142 feet\u2014in a tweaked, front-wheel-drive commuter car with 61.8 percent of its 3111 pounds resting on the front wheels. So, yeah, extremely solid.<\/a><\/p>\n

A Domesticated Heathen<\/b><\/h3>\n

What sets this Honda apart from other sport compacts is how it balances speed, body control, and outright cornering prowess with the day-to-day ride comfort that you would never expect given its rubber-band-like 30-series tires. Indeed, those 245\/30ZR-20 Continental SportContact 6 performance treads offer seemingly no cushion for the spindly 20-inch aluminum wheels, and they\u2019re pricey at $320 a pop. Yet, despite having significantly stiffer springs, dampers, bushings, and anti-roll bars than even\u00a0the new Civic Si<\/a>, the Type R traverses pockmarked pavement better than nearly any other car with this much stick. Even with its driving-mode selector in its full-attack +R setting\u2014which slightly weights up the steering over the lesser Sport and Comfort modes and puts the three-position adaptive dampers in their firmest tune\u2014the ride is fully livable. Combined with a high level of standard amenities and wonderfully comfortable and supportive sport seats (available in red cloth only), there\u2019s little compromise to having a Type R as your sole mode of transport.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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