Video Honda ✅ Back in 2017 The Honda Civic Type R took the automotive world by storm with its sharp handling and agressive styling. With a 2.0L turbocharged 4 cylinder from factory the Civic Type R was all the rage for the JDM and Honda community. Even though the car was front wheel drive it didn’t deter it from being an amazing racing platform. However that was back in 2017… in 2022 the automotive space is much different. With competitors on the horizon is the 2023 Honda Civic Type R better enough than its rivals? For this review – let’s go for a drive and find out! ✅ The 2023 Honda Civic Type R Has One BIG Problem…
⏩ Video content: The 2023 Honda Civic Type R Has One BIG Problem…
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all right look the brand new Civic Type
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R is finally here back in 2017 the Civic
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Type R Came Out Swinging tons of power
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going straight to the front wheels great
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handling red seats you name it it
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checked all the type R boxes it handled
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great and was a ton of fun to drive side
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note my voice is just a hair raspy
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because I just got married two days ago
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so bear with me in this intro but don’t
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worry the rest of the video I sound just
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fine but the only problem with the brand
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new Type R isn’t really the car itself
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in my opinion is is it different enough
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to conquer the big fat two-letter
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elephant in the room and that is what
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we’re gonna talk about today so is the
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new Civic Type R enough of an update to
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rock your socks off let’s go for a drive
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and find out
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foreign
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good morning ladies and gentlemen
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and welcome to the brand new Civic Type
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R the type R brand has been around 30
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years now which is pretty hard to
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believe so getting straight into it what
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is different about this one to the
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previous generation because the previous
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generation was
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pretty good it’s really good actually
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have a lot to see time in it I really
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enjoyed it and even when you did
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bolt-ons on it it was really great
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okay that’s really rad there’s like an
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F1 style shift light up at the top with
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physical lights like it’s not like a
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thing in the digital dash so that’s
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really neat and it’s perfect in your
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peripheral vision seeing it come up and
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back especially when you have wheel spin
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in a front wheel drive car that’s this
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fast so this has 315 horsepower at 6 500
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RPM it’s a 2-liter turbocharged
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four-cylinder that is very similar to
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the last engine in the last car but just
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kind of upgraded in a few ways it has
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improved engine cooling it has a new
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turbocharger it is nine eight to one
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compression ratio the engine cooling has
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been improved one thing I’m like kind of
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struggling to get my head around is
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they’re advertising this as the most
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powerful Honda ever sold in the United
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States which is true
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but
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car guys know that Acura and Honda are
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kind of the same thing so I’m like but
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what about the NSX oh right it’s
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inaccurate here but it’s a Honda
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everywhere else in the world so that’s
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just kind of a funny thing to think
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about
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I used to drag your back in high school
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are you gasoline in Gears
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yep are you gears in petrol
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wow from the outside it doesn’t sound
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amazing not gonna lie
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you mean your foot
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what do you think of the car from the
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outside been like appearance wise I love
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it yeah I love it it’s fat
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one thing you’ll notice is that the
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headlight sits almost behind the grill
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it’s really interesting so you have this
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Grill kind of stick out here and this
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kind of scoop into the front bumper we
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do have mostly functional vents on the
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car but there are some that are
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unfunctional also the side skirt
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actually directs air past air which is
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pretty neat and one of the biggest
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debates about the type R the last
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generation was the engine cooling some
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people seem to have engine cooling on
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track and some people did it it was kind
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of a divisive subject that nobody seemed
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to get a clear answer on in my opinion
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no matter what race track I went to it
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was like oh yeah my mine overheats or
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mine doesn’t overheat or it’s dry for
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error it was kind of a hard thing to
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figure out if it was a real thing or not
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this one right off the bat sounds
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different and the first one one of my
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biggest complaints was that
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didn’t sound like a Honda
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like it just didn’t really have that
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crazy V-Tech sound right is it as loud
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and aggressive as that nationally
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aspirated one no but it still has a
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little bit more personality with this
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new exhaust system we still have the
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triple trumpet looking exhaust on the
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back and of course the middle one is
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bigger than the sides the biggest
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competitor to this car arguably is the
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Corolla gr which also has three exhausts
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on it or three exhaust tips on it still
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has a six-speed transmission and a
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lighter flywheel I could not imagine the
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Pacific Type R in the other way like
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this car without the manual transmission
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would be just bizarre it just wouldn’t
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feel right and to get that horsepower
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the turbocharger throws out 25 pounds of
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Boost from the factory so let’s talk
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about the elephant in the room and that
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is the brand new Lux to the Type R
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man a lot of people can’t really make up
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their mind on this one because the last
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one was very boy racer had a lot of
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crazy aerodynamics on it and was just
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like a spaceship like it was it was a
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wild looking car and some people said it
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was over stylized so then they dialed
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the style back and then the internet
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goes crazy and says oh now it’s not
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styled enough and I think the biggest
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thing with that is the wing the wing
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seems to be the big thing a lot of
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people look at and go that just doesn’t
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seem right or quote unquote it seemed
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like an afterthought and you can kind of
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see that because the one in the previous
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generation was color matched and you
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know it felt more attached to the car
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this is a two post Wing like a
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functional two-post Wing that you would
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buy to put on your race car it has much
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more of an aftermarket looking feeling
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to it and you can argue that that’s good
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or bad it’s up to you when you face the
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card directly from the rear it doesn’t
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look too out of place but if you see
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that that side profile you kind of see
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what people are saying about it like why
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their opinion is that way think about
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the type bar that made it so great in
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the last generation was how good it was
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at
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Canyon carving
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you get that Honda limiter man
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and the limited slip does a really good
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job of keeping you
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um
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foreign
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I love that the arrow in this car is
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functional it doesn’t just look like
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it’s there the rev matching system has
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been improved even more and it was
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really good in the last car good thing
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is you can turn it on on and off if you
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want
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ah the brakes dude I did have one
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instance earlier where I hit a patch of
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uh some gravel or something and it
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understood really really bad but it’s
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because I had a patch of gravel so that
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was kind of scary the extra torque is
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extremely helpful as well so let’s talk
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about the interior the interior of this
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car is very similar to the last one but
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also of course similar to the 11th gen
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Civic SI the steering wheel is a
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fantastic steering wheel feels really
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good in your hands you have a 10.2 inch
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infotainment screen a full Digital dash
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and what’s cool is in each mode it
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changes everything that’s going on on
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the dash now like I said before I love
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that the shift light is actually
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physical and not built in to the digital
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dash I think it’s a really nice touch
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you want to hear the least intimidating
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horn in the world
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another thing about the type R is that
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they actually have a good selection of
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colors to really bring out the body
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lines of this thing this car in white
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looks fantastic it looks the part with
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the red carpet the Red Sea it’s all that
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speaking of the Interior the seats are
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very similar to the last one but they’re
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not exactly the same they’re a little
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bit more of a bucket they’re a little
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more slanted on the bottom turning
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radius is not good it’s 265 Square all
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the way around at the same time the car
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for some reason I feel as though it
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needs to be just this much lower just
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has a little bit much of a wheel gap for
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my taste but that’s one you know
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coilover away or whatever this car is 42
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000 like 800 something bucks basically
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forty three thousand dollars and if you
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look at it there’s a big fat Corolla
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elephant in the room and the gr Corolla
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in this although they’re probably the
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closest competitors with one another
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they drive very very differently the gr
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with its multiple differential setups
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with all-wheel drive feels very
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different than this car it does have
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lower power but at least on the street I
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feel a little bit more confident in that
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car today’s road conditions are great
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there’s a lot of gravel and stuff on the
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road so take all this what I’m saying
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with a grain of salt this car feels very
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similar to the last car and that there’s
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nothing wrong with that it’s just faster
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it’s a little bit bigger a little bit
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wider in the front as well the track
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width is a little bit more but also just
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like the last car you have plenty of
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seating in the back seat is a big giant
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hatch in the back with a ton of storage
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space this car just makes you want to
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downshift all the time it just stay in
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the high RPM all the time in the true
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Honda fashion at the end of the day the
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brand new Civic Type R is an update of
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the old Civic Type R I don’t mean that
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in a mean way the last one was a really
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great car and this is a really great car
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it’s fast enough for most people it’s
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really good around corners it feels good
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it’s comfortable overall it’s a Civic
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type bar it’s exactly what the name
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Thursdays and Sundays and I will see you
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guys next time and take it easy have a
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