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Honda Civic Type R
Basically, the Type R makes a lot of noise and revs to the stars ?? but it just doesn??t go hard. The Honda claimed 0-100 km/h time is 6.6 seconds. We??d suggest that in the sort of getaway you might perform at a set of traffic lights, the real time is closer to 8 seconds. In fact, launch gently with the air on before mashing your foot to the floor and it??s not hard to stretch that even further. Basically, that means the local cooking sedans that leap from the line with torque ?? Aurion, Falcon, Commodore, 380 - will easily wipe you to the urban limit if you??re so foolhardy as to line them up.
And the embarrassment isn??t confined to just traffic light drags. Up a steep, windy and bumpy country road, a Mitsubishi 380 that we??ve driven was able to set faster times than the Type R screaming at 7000 ?? 8000 rpm. And if you think it??s unfair to compare the Type R to local sedans, try comparing it with its direct competition ?? Golf GTi, Mazda 3 MPS, Focus XR5 and so on. There the Honda looks simply ridiculous in the paucity of its performance. At 1345kg it??s in the same weight ballpark as its opposition but has far less power. For example, the Mazda 3 has a flywheel figure of 190kW, well in excess of the Honda??s 148kW. But the vital point to realise is that the peak torque of the Mazda is 97 per cent greater . That??s right, there??s almost twice the torque ?? and it occurs at 3000 rpm, not the Honda??s 5600 rpm. To put this another way, at 80 km/h in fourth gear in the Honda you have 62kW available at the wheels. In the Mazda you??ve got 115kW available! (See the dyno graph at the end of this story for more.) And so hell, it??s no surprise that the Mazda 3 goes like a cut snake and the Honda Type R leisurely winds its way to stratospheric revs... Source: [url=http://autospeed.drive.com.au/cms/A_109041/article.html]AutoSpeed[/url] |
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