I really like the Honda Civic Sort R. This should not actually be information to anybody who’s ever learn the rest I’ve ever written on the subjecthowever I am a giant fan of Honda’s hottest of hatches. I like them sufficient that I would even contemplate proudly owning one, and it is so hardly ever price proudly owning a automotive in Brooklyn. However one thing retains stopping me from ever placing money down: Used Civic Sort Rs value too rattling a lot.
The present FL5 technology, certain, I perceive these being costly. It hasn’t been round all that lengthy, and many individuals favor its subtler seems to be to the extra aggressive styling of the previous-gen FK8. I, although, completely benefit from the FK8’s driving dynamics at authorized speeds, and I truthfully suppose its seems to be have aged gracefully because the days when it was decried as trying like a Gundam (as if that is by some means unhealthy). I would like to get my palms on the older automotive, however they’re nonetheless powerful to search out underneath $30,000.
I would ask why so many of those are wrecked, however that is probably not a tough query to reply
Each Sort R I see out there’s one among two issues: Over $30,000, or not directly wrecked. So many of those vehicles include salvage or rebuilt titles, with almost each one claiming to be a theft restoration and completely positively not a chassis that was twisted to all hell after a driver tried to float their front-wheel-drive Civic and ended up understeering right into a avenue lamp. Perhaps the sheer variety of wrecked vehicles is artificially boosting costs of the nice ones, constraining their provide, however nonetheless — 30 grand? For a nine-year-old Civic?
As a automotive journalist, I would very very like a Civic Sort R. As a automotive journalist, although, my $65,000 wage is not masking a $30,000 decade-old Civic any time quickly — particularly not whereas New York Metropolis rents are what they’re. My dream of a gracefully-aging FK8 appears ceaselessly out of attain, however perhaps sometime I am going to get to personal one among these unbelievable sizzling hatches. Ideally in yellow.
