Type r running costs

[Mike Horne]

Excuse my ignorance but I'm not really farmiliar with the honda scene but my son is currently looking for a 2002 ish ep3?Civic type r...as he's only 19 and this is his second car..the first being a 1.2 3 pot polo I think firstly that it'll be too fast for him however I did tell him I'd post a thread asking for feedback on running costs (70 mile commute).

Any input appreciated.

[Mike Horne]

To be fair he is a really sensible lad however I think the whole new world of overtaking other cars would worry me! He's had a quote for insurance and he can get it for a quite surprising £1100 tpf&t.

We're all petrol heads in our house I've got a TVR cerbera red rose at 450 bhp and love going sideways so I'm probably not the best of role models however as most of you would agree I worked my way up to this and I think that's really important.

I recommended a fabia vrs as my wife has an octavia vrs and they really are cracking oil burners!

[Mike Horne]

I'd never considered an ST myself they're tidy little cars but you know what it's like at 19...type R does have a nice sound to it when you're in the pub!

[Mike Horne]

I've never driven one what are the running costs/pitfalls of the ST?

[Mike Horne]

I've heard the vtec will stop working unless you use it...is this true? If it is I'd obviously have to make sure this didn't happen and use it for him!