Honda Civic Type R (EP3)

[kerryt5r]

Hi

Just thought I would share a few pics of the Type R that my girlfriend and I picked up on Friday :















Really pleased with it and have enjoyed driving it so far, can't think of a better car for the money. Handling / vtec are a lot of fun and the gearbox is fantastic!

Kerry

[joshG]

Nice car mate. Honda type Rs are great cars and those ep3's are a bargain. I'm tempted to have one as a daily driver through winter.

[kerryt5r]

joshG said:

Nice car mate. Honda type Rs are great cars and those ep3's are a bargain. I'm tempted to have one as a daily driver through winter.

Cheers, certainly a lot of car for your money!

[zedx19]

How much did this slice of VTEC cost, if you don't mind me asking?

[Gdgd]

Very Nice Picked up a Milano EP3 a couple of months back now and loving every minute. How many miles on it?

[C.A.R.]

Nice, looks much less 'flashy' in plain silver, almost Q-car like.

[Mastodon2]

Lovely car, just needs a loud pipe on there now to unleash the vtec sound / drive your girlfriend nuts!

[Defcon5]

I can never make my mind up as to wether I like the styling of these or not. From some angles they look really good, yet really awkward from others.

Bet they are excellent to drive though

[GTdave91]

looks good. any mods or anything planned for it? i would love a EP3 i have a EP2 myself.
get yourself onto www.epcivic.com

[Xpander]

Pre-facelift in silver. Good combo.

[Baryonyx]

Very smart indeed. IMO the pick of the hot hatches of that era!

[kerryt5r]

Cheers for all the compliments, really pleased with it - planning to hold on to it for a good few years!

Gdgd said:

Very Nice Picked up a Milano EP3 a couple of months back now and loving every minute. How many miles on it?

Sounds nice, I do like them in red. Mine has done 100K on the nose, full honda s/h up to 09 and then 3 at a subaru main dealers. A few miles don't particularly worry me on one of these.

Mastodon2 said:

Lovely car, just needs a loud pipe on there now to unleash the vtec sound / drive your girlfriend nuts!

Cheers, If I was the only one driving it I would probably do filter and exhaust, but think I am going to keep it completely standard.

Defcon5 said:

I can never make my mind up as to wether I like the styling of these or not. From some angles they look really good, yet really awkward from others.

Bet they are excellent to drive though

I was much the same since they came out, but after looking at so many before we got this one I am used to the look and don't notice anymore. Yeah, they do drive great - very impressive for a standard £20K car!

GTdave91 said:

looks good. any mods or anything planned for it? i would love a EP3 i have a EP2 myself.
get yourself onto www.epcivic.com

Thanks, I am planning to keep it completely standard - my other car has seen of the majoriy of my wages over the last few years!.. Will take a look over there

[vixen1700]

Really like silver EP3s myself.

[DanielSan]

vixen1700 said:

Really like silver EP3s myself.

Fastest colour.

And type r owners is your best bet for useful advice and stuff.

[Martin_Hx]

DanielSan said:

Fastest colour.

And type r owners is your best bet for useful advice and stuff.

Pfft, no thats Cosmic Grey your thinking of ! :-)

They arent brilliant in snow as you would expect but ive had mine over 5 years and I still love taking it out on a nice day and taking it past 8k :-D

[kerryt5r]

Martin_Hx said:

Pfft, no thats Cosmic Grey your thinking of ! :-)

They arent brilliant in snow as you would expect but ive had mine over 5 years and I still love taking it out on a nice day and taking it past 8k :-D

That's good to know, I will only be driving it for pleasure at evenings and weekends and am planning on keeping it a good few years

[otolith]

Looks just like mine did - cost me a bit over 17k back in 2002, base price was 16k plus a grand for air con and a few hundred for silver paint. That was a great car.

[kerryt5r]

otolith said:

Looks just like mine did - cost me a bit over 17k back in 2002, base price was 16k plus a grand for air con and a few hundred for silver paint. That was a great car.

Was a lot of car for the money from new as well then! Didnt realise the base price was that low - sounds almost the same spec as mine, mine has fogs in addition but no other extras as far as I know. Did you keep yours long? What did you replace it with?

[otolith]

Kept mine for three and a half years, put fifty-odd thousand miles on it. Changed it because the missus had bought an MX-5 and largely as a result I had fallen out of love with hot hatches. Wanted something rear drive and a bit "different". Bought an RX-8, which I also loved.

[Baryonyx]

Martin_Hx said:

They arent brilliant in snow as you would expect

So I have heard, though I would have expected them to be pretty good in the snow. FWD, relatively skinny tyres, maunal gearbox with little torque beneath the VTEC zone which should have made it very easy to coax about in the snow.