RE: Honda CR-X: Spotted
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Such a beautiful car and so much fun, also as others have said so cheap to insure for a young-un. I remember it was less than £300, compared with over £500 for a mk2 Golf GTI 16V and £850 for a BMW E30 325i. I had a 1989 1.6i-16 also in Silver with a broom in the boot to hold the tailgate up!!! Such an awesome car, the engine sounded so good as it screamed towards that bike style red-line. Maybe it was the state of tyres twenty years ago but also gave me my first rude introduction to lift off over steer.
So sad they can't make cars like this these days...
So sad they can't make cars like this these days...
A very expensive CRX but you aren't going to find many in that condition now adays and other vtecs are easily fetching 4k.
They also had a one make series although for the 16v DOHC and non vtec cars:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbalAyYoDa8
They also had a one make series although for the 16v DOHC and non vtec cars:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbalAyYoDa8
Reading the advert, says it was owned by G. Chilcott of Bristol for a few years...Gareth Chilcott? Bath and England RFU player with the totally unadulterated Bristolian accent? There's a few grand right there in celeb provenance (although how he fitted into it is a mystery - bolsters should have been worn out).
Saw one of these languishing on a driveway in the summer (lowered with decals and big alloys) and was tempted to leave a note asking if it was for sale, such is the pull of that na screamer engine and svelte body. Tempting, but not at £9k.
Saw one of these languishing on a driveway in the summer (lowered with decals and big alloys) and was tempted to leave a note asking if it was for sale, such is the pull of that na screamer engine and svelte body. Tempting, but not at £9k.
I've seen dealers advertising similar mint cars with similar mileages for about £4K. They are rare but there are a few around still and 9K is crazy money.
Reminds me of a 9K Porsche Boxster 2.5 with similar mileage I saw advertised locally, that was then half the money a few months later! Maybe some people just advertise and hope?! One day will a Boxster 2.5 may be worth the equivalent of 9K now if it's like new with very low mileage. I don't ever think a Honda CRX will ever be worth that as it's not a Type-R. It's just too ordinary and has no image/history/rarity/specialness.
£4K for that seems about right as it sounds like it's one of the best, or the best, in the UK.. There was an equivlent DC2 Integra Type R advertised for £6K at a dealer this year, and there's no way this will ever be worth more than two thirds of the price of an equivalent DC2 Integra Type R!
Of course I could be wrong!
Reminds me of a 9K Porsche Boxster 2.5 with similar mileage I saw advertised locally, that was then half the money a few months later! Maybe some people just advertise and hope?! One day will a Boxster 2.5 may be worth the equivalent of 9K now if it's like new with very low mileage. I don't ever think a Honda CRX will ever be worth that as it's not a Type-R. It's just too ordinary and has no image/history/rarity/specialness.
£4K for that seems about right as it sounds like it's one of the best, or the best, in the UK.. There was an equivlent DC2 Integra Type R advertised for £6K at a dealer this year, and there's no way this will ever be worth more than two thirds of the price of an equivalent DC2 Integra Type R!
Of course I could be wrong!
I had a '91 Vtec CRX in Celestial Blue. I bought it in 2007 and it took me quite a while to find a good one then (had about 58k on the clock from memory). I paid around 3.5k and sold it for the same roughly 30,000 miles later in 2010.
It was a great car and proved immeasurably more reliable than the Fiat X1/9 that it replaced. The only issues that I had were with a Lambda sensor and ABS sensor. Some of these parts can be very difficult to get hold of - Honda could get an ABS sensor if you were prepared to eat beans for 6 months, but I found the CRX forum extremely helpful for advice and sourcing bits.
I replaced the standard wheels for later VTI 'fat fives' (15" instead of 14") - suited the car far more yet still looked stock. It went like poop off a stick and embarassed a lot of bigger cars. You had to make sure that you weren't caught napping and kept it in 'tec however! I miss it
It was a great car and proved immeasurably more reliable than the Fiat X1/9 that it replaced. The only issues that I had were with a Lambda sensor and ABS sensor. Some of these parts can be very difficult to get hold of - Honda could get an ABS sensor if you were prepared to eat beans for 6 months, but I found the CRX forum extremely helpful for advice and sourcing bits.
I replaced the standard wheels for later VTI 'fat fives' (15" instead of 14") - suited the car far more yet still looked stock. It went like poop off a stick and embarassed a lot of bigger cars. You had to make sure that you weren't caught napping and kept it in 'tec however! I miss it
dme123 said:
I've always liked the sound of these 80s/90s Japanese cars and would like to try some but by god do I struggle to get over how s
t they look.
You think the CRX looks st they look. t? Maybe you weren't around to appreciate just how different they were from the euroboxes about at the time. My one is 25 years old and lots of people remark on its design.CRX to CRZ. I see Honda understandably decided to forego the CRY.
Always loved those CRX embroided seats - rare to see a set in such good condition 22 years on. I agree that £9k is a touch steep though - there is a balance to be struck somewhere between price, condition, scarcity and the fact that it's still a 22 year old Japanese hatchback!
Always loved those CRX embroided seats - rare to see a set in such good condition 22 years on. I agree that £9k is a touch steep though - there is a balance to be struck somewhere between price, condition, scarcity and the fact that it's still a 22 year old Japanese hatchback!
dme123 said:
I've always liked the sound of these 80s/90s Japanese cars and would like to try some but by god do I struggle to get over how st they look.
Legislation aside, take a footprint that small, give it almost 360 visibility, add a rear bench that suited children up to the age of 5-6 or an adult for 30 seconds, sit yourself very low to the ground with all controls falling easily to hand, a massive sense of space for driver and passenger, now try and style that to look quite as sleek as this, short overhangs, low bonnet line. Restrained surfaces, neat details, near-iconic rear glass treatment.t they look. And that is just styling and packaging
Add to that bullet proof ground breaking engineering, with decent economy and the only failing I see, if you can call it that is FWD understeer and a peaky rev based power delivery...which sonme would say isn't a failing when it sounded that good.
each to their own I get that... but this generation of CRX in particular is an easy modern classic, almost timeless beauty IMO.
steve2864169 said:
I used to have a red Civic 3 door, pretty similar to this inside and out but with a hatch-back. Great little 1.4 with twin carburettors, far more interesting in my eyes that the cooking spec Saxos and Fiestas my mates were driving at the time.
Me too. Loved that car and did 120k in it over 6 years. It was deceptively fast and (with a bit of commitment) had just enough go to dice with some of the late 80s hot hatches. The relatively sophisticated double wishbone suspension meant it cornered virtually flat compared to its peers. The fun bit was that 99.9% of them were driven by pensioners so there were plenty of shocked faces. Unsurprisingly, the CRX was the dream car. At £5-6k I would be extremely tempted. Would love one of these, small, light, nimble, revvy and a bit different from a GTI of the same era.
Petrolicious crx fanboy: http://youtu.be/5Q4CXkHZCeQ
Petrolicious crx fanboy: http://youtu.be/5Q4CXkHZCeQ
Edited by danp on Thursday 2nd October 10:19
SaqibCTR said:
So who's driven both the CRX and the 205 GTI? If so, which would you rather have?
From memory of owning a CRX non-vtec I'd say the CRX would slightly struggle to match the 205 GTi, having driven a friends 1.6 GTi. However, the reverse would be the case with the CRX Vtec. You can hang on to those gears for soooo long, screaming it's nuts off.I took mine to Aldon Automotive in Brierley Hill and they dyno'd it at 166bhp, compleately standard. Not bad then for N/A!
Anh one poster saying it looks s
te?! PAH!!
Edited by Fastchas on Thursday 2nd October 10:36
Fastchas said:
Did anyone's CRX 'moan' as it sat on the drive??
Every so often mine would let out a noise, maybe some pressure relief valve from expanding petrol fumes in the tank or something like that?
Still does! Every so often mine would let out a noise, maybe some pressure relief valve from expanding petrol fumes in the tank or something like that?
. IIRC its a vent on the tank equalizing the pressure.I've got mine at home at the moment, I'll take some pictures later, though the purists won't like what I've done to it, bear in mind I paid £200 for it and saved it from the scrapheap after an MOT fail.
With these feet said:
Fastchas said:
Did anyone's CRX 'moan' as it sat on the drive??
Every so often mine would let out a noise, maybe some pressure relief valve from expanding petrol fumes in the tank or something like that?
Still does! Every so often mine would let out a noise, maybe some pressure relief valve from expanding petrol fumes in the tank or something like that?
. IIRC its a vent on the tank equalizing the pressure.I've got mine at home at the moment, I'll take some pictures later, though the purists won't like what I've done to it, bear in mind I paid £200 for it and saved it from the scrapheap after an MOT fail.
I had a silver 1.6-16 and a VTEC. I replaced it with a Celestial Blue V-TEC, 3 years old in 1994 for £8500 with 19k miles running it to 80k.
Full Scorpion de-cat, 15" alloys and 368CRX private plate on it. All I had to do apart from service items were a pair of rear calipers & a door check strap.
Re the post above about adults in the back for 30secs, a Fireman mate did Donington & back for the bike GP in 1 day = 600 miles, he did have to unfold himself a bit. Another time the girlfriend and 2 of her friends were taken home in the back, the sight in the rear view mirror was something else - that car has quite a few happy memories!!
J190MCV - I did see it advertised on here a few years ago, wonder if it belonged to any of the posters on this thread.
Full Scorpion de-cat, 15" alloys and 368CRX private plate on it. All I had to do apart from service items were a pair of rear calipers & a door check strap.
Re the post above about adults in the back for 30secs, a Fireman mate did Donington & back for the bike GP in 1 day = 600 miles, he did have to unfold himself a bit. Another time the girlfriend and 2 of her friends were taken home in the back, the sight in the rear view mirror was something else - that car has quite a few happy memories!!
J190MCV - I did see it advertised on here a few years ago, wonder if it belonged to any of the posters on this thread.
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