Mugen type r

[Jon.L]

sounds awesome

http://pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=20410

 

[Curley]

Sounds nice on tick over!

 

[Ian_182]

A good effort i think...

 

[Marky_]

Good vid that is. Presumably the guy was a ctr owner?

 

[ant_r27]

Sounds nice, but I prefer the FD2 Mugen RR if I'm being honest.

 

[GazM]

good vid that, lovin the music

Tick over sounds mint, agree with ant tho, FD2 looks alot better

 

[Merk]

Ooops, I posted a thread on this as I never knew this was the recent footage ha.

Sounds the dogs danglies but that rear spoiler ruins it for me to be honest..

although that back bumper/diffuser looks s**t hot, much better than standard..

 

[Peperami]

On that note, been looking at this. Love it!

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/1180803.htm

 

[Merk]

Want.

 

[Greeny.]

Sounds mental

 

[Englebert]

Good vid that is. Presumably the guy was a ctr owner?

Nope, an NSX owner.

"The trip was incredible. The day after we arrived I drove the Civic Type R Mugen back to back with a Type R saloon at Twin Ring Motegi (although it was just a big concrete test area rather than the circuit). The Mugen felt like more than 2 litres and definitely more refined than the previous car. It was wet so there was more understeer than usual but it was still a great drive. £35k is a lot but they only plan to sell 25 cars - I think it's more a marketing exercise for Mugen. I will probably get shot for this but outside it even sounded as good as my NSX at full throttle. You have to hear it to believe it.

The Honda Collection is at Motegi and is mostly racing and historic cars and bikes (lots and lots of bikes, which aren't in the photos), with explanations and sound clips of the best examples. Surprisingly, they also have other marques like Porsche 356, Bugatti 35, Suzuki bikes on show. You must be pretty confident of your own output to be able to do this. We didn't have long enough here to really savour it; although the photos are the best of the museum, I could have done another hour or two.

Motegi is a bit of a theme park and we saw Asimo in a separate area. He did the same show as at the UK Motor Show last year.

The Mugen factory tour was a real experience. They walked us round design, machine shop, fabrication, dyno testing, and the showroom. We could ask lots of questions and I saw the NSX Super GT car in the workshop. There was also a Civic Type RR with carbon fibre everywhere.

We also stayed in a top hotel and went out every night at Honda's expense. I couldn't have asked for more the whole time and I came away with an even better impression of the company than before.

I would definitely say Motegi and the collection are worth a visit, but they are a bit of a trek to get to. Japan is also unbelievably expensive. Beers in Roppongi were 1,000 Yen, which is about £6.50, and everything seemed to be at least twice the price of over here. I was in Japan in 2004 and don't remember it being this dear. Having said that, I only brought out my wallet once the whole of this trip - for a Mugen cagoule (£65), and a present for the wife"