EP3 Civic Type R - why not?

[C.A.R.]

I can agree with most of that to be honest. I thought out of the box it did handle a bit better than my GTi6 (runs and hides) but the brakes and gearbox were the main problems. The engine was fine, but like you say, keeping it on the boil is the hard part and it can be a bit too much to deal with down a bumpy b-road having to keep looking down at the revs. As a road car though it was so refined, everything worked, climate control was one of the best I've used and it was super comfy. I guess it was a bit of a missed opportunity, but it's certainly more comfortable than a DC2 for the daily grind IMO (only having been in a couple of DC2s...)

In Japan you could get an LSD as an option but very few were specced with it.

Main reason I threw the idea out there though is the price. The cost of the Celica vs. the DC2 / EP3 is about the same as the annual insurance policy on the latter two...