The shifter in the Honda Civic Type R shares more conceptually with the Integra Type R than any other Honda or Acura-badged sports car in the past 26 years. The way it drives and makes the driver feel channels the Integra in unique ways. This article explores the connection between the two models.
It's the shifter. The visual connection is obvious - it's the same shift knob, and not by accident - but it goes deeper, all the way to transmission it actuates. More than any other single part, the shifter inThis generation Civic Type R shares more conceptually with the Integra Type R than any Honda or Acura-badged sports coupe or sedan in the preceding 26 years.
The way it drives, the way it behaves when pushed to its limit, and the way it makes the driver feel all channel the Integra in ways no other car quite has. Enough effusive ink has been poured out in tributes to the Integra Type R over the years you'd be forgiven for thinking this is just another work of Honda fanboy navel-gazing. As you can see from the photos, it's not. We're not looking back at the Integra with rose-colored glasses, we actually drove one. This immaculate 2001 Type Rrepresented everything Honda knew about making a front-drive street car fast and fun to drive. The
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