Honda 2006 Type R

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puppiemaster

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Friday 9th December 2005
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The new type R will be 3 door but have the same silloette as the 5 door civic, it will come with 2 size engines, a 2.0 and a 2.4.

puppiemaster

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Friday 9th December 2005
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Hope the weather is nice for this time of year.

puppiemaster

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Friday 9th December 2005
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Also the front doors are 8" longer than the 5 door version

puppiemaster

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Saturday 10th December 2005
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Come and work at Honda, you can see a new type R all the time, if you get an engineering degree and get assigned to New Models

puppiemaster

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Saturday 10th December 2005
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2.0 is going to be standard model, 2.4 is in the type R premium

puppiemaster

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Saturday 10th December 2005
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launch is Sept 2006, dont know about first pics, we just build them

puppiemaster

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Sunday 11th December 2005
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beginning to think you might be a VW owner.

I do however actually have a Honda and I like it, the new civic is a move in the right direction for the company and actually makes all the other hatchbacks in the sector look like they were designed 20 years ago, not bad for a company with a very boring image.



puppiemaster

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Sunday 11th December 2005
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Seems to me that a poor workman blames his tools, maybe you should get more training or actually see the new honda in the flesh, seems durable enough to me and actually owning one of the few 2006 Honda Civics that are on the road at the moment I've not got any scratches on the dash, just some dust and a Vanilla aire freshner.

puppiemaster

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Sunday 11th December 2005
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I was always an Astra driver before I worked for Honda, I'm proud to now drive a British built car thats very reliable and gives employment to over 4000 workers in Swindon.

If all you can moan about is the plastic on the dash I think we have dome our job very well

puppiemaster

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Sunday 11th December 2005
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Well the new Honda Civic has Bluetooth, so you just need a good phone, no connection needed, just set your phone to the car and when it rings press the button on the steering wheel.

puppiemaster

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Sunday 11th December 2005
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The new civics sell on value has been set above BMW 1 series, VX golf, ford Focus, Astra and only £12cless than Audi A4, something tells me that quite a few fleet cars will be Honda.


The residual value has been set by the UK's 2 biggest Fleet car suppliers. Who am I to argue with them.

puppiemaster

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Tuesday 13th December 2005
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And yet the fit and finish on Civics is always rated higher than the BMW's on the Top Gear survey. I do believe it was 5* again this year, not bad.

Sorry you had trouble with yours, maybe yours was a Friday afternoon car.

puppiemaster

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Wednesday 14th December 2005
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I dont mean to come across as condesending, if i am a little defensive its because I work for Honda, i'm proud of our car and I'm proud its made in Swindon, I'm also very proud that it is light years ahead of any other car in the segmant.

The Typr R premium does cost more as you would expect and most things on it are options, but it really does shift and with the new suspension we are trying out it really handles well.



puppiemaster

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Wednesday 21st December 2005
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The Type R is being reveiled at the geneva motor show in March.

However its not based on the Honda Coupe, it has the same siloette as the 5 door, just an extra spoiler on the tailgate. This helps keep costs down and allows the same jigs to be used with minor mods in the weld department and also allows quite a few parts to be standard across both ranges, again this helps to lower costs.



>> Edited by puppiemaster on Wednesday 21st December 00:30

puppiemaster

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Friday 23rd December 2005
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nice picture, pity it has NOTHING to do with the Honda Civic Type R or the european Cvic 5 door, I do believe thats the american saloon insight replacement.

puppiemaster

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Wednesday 28th December 2005
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Its to save space and money, can give a flat floor and increase the luggage space, not the best idea in the world, but decision was made in Japan. Type R will be different.




>> Edited by puppiemaster on Wednesday 28th December 11:28

puppiemaster

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Thursday 29th December 2005
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Well until you bother to drive it you will never know,

The 5 door is not underpowered its limited so that the insurance grouping is not to high. the diesel is limited to just over 8 seconds, in trials it did 0 - 62 in 6.4sec and actually holds 19 world records.

All i was trying to do was inform some people about the new type R and some of the features it will have, but as usual people want to just complain about everything and not actually take the information in.

This posting section is now at an end and I will stick to the NSX replacement at work instead.

Could of told you loads about that as well.