The Honda Civic Type R
If you have between £3,000 and £6,000 to spend on a used car then you can’t go wrong with the Honda Civic Type R!
With a budget of just £6,000 you’ll easily find luxury cars, sports cars and family cars that are all well wiithin your reach. However, if you’re looking for something a little different then we recommend a hot hatch – not just any hot hatch but one with a “Type R” badge on it. We think the Honda Civic Type R easily ranks alongside the Volkswagen GTi and the Peugeot 205 Gti as one of the greatest hot hatches ever built.
This 200bhp hot hatch is extremely cheap in today’s used car market but if you told someone back in 2001 that you’d be able to buy a car with this much power from a regular engine they would have laughed at you. However, the last thing you can call its engine is regular! On the contrary, it’s packed full of ground-breaking technology that lead Honda engines to five consecutive Formula One titles. OK this was a long time ago but even still it’s quite an achievement. Pack all this technology into a hatchback and what you get is a very very quick car!
The key to its engine performance is the revs – lots and lots of it. In fact you need about 6000rpm on the dial before the engine decides to wake up. However, you need another 1500rpm beyond that for the VTech computers to do its best work. Even when you drive one today it’s an extremely addictive driving experience and a wonderfully crafted piece of engineering.
The stats:
Name: Honda Civic Type R
Years on sale: 2001 2006
Price on DesperateSeller.co.uk: £2,000 - £6,000
Owner rating: 4.5 out of 5
You could argue that the bucket-seats, the unadorned MOMO steering wheel and the slender aluminium gear lever gives the Honda Civic Type R the purity of any 911 GT3 or Lotus Elise racer.
The measure of any hot hatchback is the size of the smile that it puts on the face of the driver when tackling their favourite B-road and on that score the Type R scores top marks. Find a used Honda Civic Type R today with DesperateSeller.co.uk.
