196,000 miles on a VTEC engine is barely run-in, surely?
Back in the distant past of 2019, when Corona was a Mexican beer and TikTok was the noise a cartoon bomb made, I tried to make the case that a car wearing a Honda badge could also be a Brave Pill., and despite it having covered an impressive 158,000 miles the general consensus was that its Hondaness made it barely more risky than a used approved Volvo. Which is why the bar has been raised a bit further for the second Pill to wear the melted H badge.
While the Civic Type R has become a long-running international franchise that has become faster and more exciting as the years have passed, the Accord Type R was a one-hit wonder – in Europe at least. Although it was the first Type R officially sold in the UK it was a marketing exercise as much as an engineering one, an attempt to lend some much-needed excitement to the CH1 generation Accord. A car that, in its more basic forms, was about as thrilling as watching magnolia paint dry.
Yet the Type R was a much more focussed car than either of those alternatives, or indeed any other front-driven saloon available at the time. The Accord was raw and viscerally exciting, especially given the challenge of keeping the engine above the 5,500rpm point where its cam profiles shift to their more aggressive mode. At which point the VTEC really did kick in, yo.
The Type R also seemed to be the answer to a question that few people were asking, to judge from the fact that fewer than 2,000 were built across four years. In Britain, the R got cheap quickly and - being a Honda - was tough enough to withstand both abuse and cut-price ownership pretty well.birthdays, and they weren’t better at resisting rust than any of the lesser Hondas from the period.
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