I read yesterday in ROAD & TRACK (page 24, upper left) that BOTH the CTR and ITR/RSX-R will be coming to our (USA) shores within a(next?) year. thats crazyness I wanna get both

EDIT - hopefully it isn't a publishing error , it didn't look like it


[Modified by 2000-4DRGSR, 8:30 AM 1/31/2002]

 

Hopefully its true

mattj

 

Hopefully, but they said that a few years ago that EK9 would come.

 

That's good and all, but I think Honda may have missed the boat. By the time those carpoo poo US shores, our friends at Mitsubishi will have the Evo and Subaru will have (so I've heard) the WRX Sti here already.

I love my Rs and I will never get rid of them, but why spend 25-30 K for an additional 20 or 30 horsepower in the RSX-R, when you could pay a little more for a 4WD Evo or Sti that have 270ish hp at the flywheel?

Unless Subaru changes the front end and the Sti gets here sooner, it looks like I am buyin the Evo.

Just my .02 and some of my points are unconfirmed.

 

Hopefully when it comes, it's not the de-tuned, stripped down version like how our DC2-R's were.

 

Honda is now de-tuning them. Preparing them for the US market....

 

Why do we have to get the De-Tuned version?

 

because we're just not as good.......

 

You can't get good gas in the US (unless you eat at Fat Burger's)

 

91

 

we got 94 over here on east coast - so

 

Japan has to save something for them selves....

 

That doesn't make any sense (at least the CTR).

The new Si has THE EXACT suspension of the CTR .... and the main difference is that fact that the CTR has the Type S K20 in it instead of the base one that is in the Si. So bringing it here should be a no brainer. They don't even have to detune it since the K20 from the Type S is already smogged ......

Now for the RSXR, it is a different story .....

 

I've always wondered if it had something to do with a couple bombs 50 years ago

 

Ouch ......

 

Let's see ...... FTO, EVO, STi 22B, GTR V Spec, NSX R, Tommy Kaira stuff, Supra, Cosmo, RX-7 .......

 

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Let's see ...... FTO, EVO, STi 22B, GTR V Spec, NSX R, Tommy Kaira stuff, Supra, Cosmo, RX-7 .......[/QUOTE]

There Selfish What Can I Say.... No C-5 vettes for them this year....

 

i want one of each!

 

the new SI is still 4 lug and the CTR is 5 lug... so they aren't the same suspension

 

Nope
Nope.

 

I talked to some Acura guys when I was at the Detroit Auto Show. He said that there will be a RSX-R in about 2-3 years, when ever Type-S sales start to slow. He did not know any details on the car. He also said that they had no plans on bringing the ctr over to our shores.

 

if this is true...it'll be phat

 

good point, that and the fact that we only paid them back their reparations a few years ago

 

4 lug and 5 lug have nothing to do with suspension .......

I'll have to find it, but in NUMEROUS publications, they say that the new Si's suspension is the same as the CTR (since they are both made in the English plant).

And unless somethng has changed, the CTR engine was supposed to be the Type S engine ........ guess I need to do some searching when I get into work tomorrow (dial up here at home blows).

 

.....you're not the only one. my jdm 1/2 hates my usdm 1/2...