One of the last true analog cars. That’s what makes these so valuable now. no driver assist and all of the extra weight is not there. Honda truly made amazing cars at this time.
Thanks for the comment & feedback! Totally agree on all points! We should have some more old school analog cars on the channel, so hope you subbed to come back for more!
Thank you for the comment & feedback! Challenge accepted! Will plan to shoot S2000 videos in the next few weeks! Hope you subbed to come back for more!
LOL! Thanks for the comment! Too funny, and I completely agree! Driving this car was so pure and it felt like it just came off the dealer lot! Anyway, hope you subbed to come back for more!
You had me giggling and smiling along with as you were giving it the beans 😂👍. I was lucky enough to growing up in Chicago to see these cars on the road. Especially at this one dealership in Schaumburg, Illinois
Thanks for the comment! Give us the specs on your car! What year, trim, color is your Integra? Yeah Type R was truly something special! Hope you subbed to come back for more!
@ My ‘95 Milano Red RS I’ve owned for 8 years now. Was one of my dream cars back in the day. The car is just lowered with A/M coil overs & volk ce28 wheels + SiR-G front lip. I’ve been subscribed since I noticed you made the account! I’ve known you from a video of the new Integra Type-S on Jay Lenos page.
I still remember the time I had 4 people in my 94 GSR in college, coming back from a road trip. Me and 3 girls. I thought I was hot stuff lmao! 😂😂 still have the car today with almost 400k miles all original drivetrain. It’s no Type R of course, but man that VTEC still sounds badass on those highway on-ramps.
Thanks for the comment & feedback! What color was your GS-R? What nice memories! If you haven’t watched already, we also have a review of a GS-R here on the channel! Hope you subbed to come back for more! 👍🏾
Thanks for the comment! Yeah, dream car for sure, but you’re right… examples like this are six figures now! 🤦🏾♂️ Congrats on the FK8 LE, what serial # did you get? Gonna try to get one on the channel soon! Hope you subbed to come back for more! 👍🏾
I have owned every generation Integra, this Type R generation is by far my favorite especially in yellow. Going from this to a owning the RSX Type S and now the 2024 Integra Type S. These are special cars. This new 2024 Type S has a beautiful sound. Hopefully the HRC that’s coming is a sign of a Type R in the near future. Great Video! 👍
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Got the performance red pearl w/ the carbon fiber spoiler and the blacked out badges with the illuminated front emblem. Absolutely love this car but got my eye on that yellow HRC with that massive wing!
Love it. i bought a 1990 acura integra 21 years ago. I put a integra type r engine in it and made it as close to a integra type r as I could. I loved the car and still do even though I don't have it anymore
Im the proud owner of exactly this car in Australia. Is a shame the Acura integra didn't come with the Recaro seats, Momo steering wheel and anthracite wheels as well as a couple of other things. Still a stunning car nonetheless
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I remember test driving a 98 Integra Type-R and comparing it against a 99 MX-5 Miata. I went with the Miata and never looked back. Way more immersive experience, albeit with some concessions on practicality. Clearly the Type-R would have been the better investment now looking back.
Thanks for the comment & feedback! Yeah the Miata is a great car, which offers a totally different driving experience. Just depends on what you wanted, but yes… the Type Rs have held their value well when they’re low mileage and not modified! Hope you subbed to come back for more!
I got one for you. This one was my favorite when I was in College in the 80’s: It’s the BMW 320is. Yep if you can find that 😱. It came in 3 colors; black, red, and white. Came stock with BBS wheels and OEM STOCK RECARO’s👌. Offered in manual only . It was a head turner👀
Thanks for the comment! That may be a tough one to find, but as the channel continues to grow, we’ll look to get cool enthusiast cars like that on the channel!
A Modern Integra Type R designed by Jordan Rubinstein-Towler is literally what I would buy... If Honda knows how much love , nostalgia and demand there is for the DC type R, then, Why won't Honda make a Modern Type R like this; small Civic hatchback/ Integra Coupe hatchback with double wishbone suspension and high revving NA engine? I remember when even the Base Civics, 1988-2000, had Double wishbone suspension. Today all the Civics have lame Mcpherson Struts. 🤦♀️🤦♂️🤦
Thanks for the comment & feedback! Not sure who that designer is, so I’ll have to look him up. Double wishbone suspension is a great tool, but it’s not the only way to make a car handle amazing. The current gen of Civic & Integra, especially their performance variants don’t have it, but handle like they’re on rails!
So nice👍. Looks like you’ve outdone yourself. To me it’s CLEARLY the JDM culture is immersed in your veins having lived/ worked and speaks Japanese . I am in Awe 👀
This is a very good video, as owner of a DC2, and making a video on it a couple of years ago, the information you bring forth due to it being Acura Type R, with the 4 round headlights, that came on the USDM and EDM/european market, but now that I own a Integra JDM front, I am blown away by how great the car is. But yellow is an amazing one. Its also so special to see the car NOT have the Recaro seats that was standard EVERYWHERE but the US, do you have any good info on WHY this is?
Wow! Thanks a lot for the nice comment & detailed feedback! That’s so awesome that you actually own a DC2, how many miles does yours have? And what color is it? I can only speculate on why the US market cars didn’t get the Recaros and it prolly came down to cost and the fact that they were too narrow for the “American body type”!?
@@Drive_Culture Mine is Nighthawk black sir, and its done 230.000 kilometers now. I daily this car because I cant stand how people stop driving these machines to keep a higher value. The value is in the experience, maintain it well, baby it and do it justice and the value should keep on. And I have an American body type, I still fit very easily into the Recaro SR3s :)
@@Drive_Culture +1 on the good vid. Subbed. :) The seats are an odd one alright. I suspect costs that might have put it above a certain pricepoint that US buyers might have said no to? The first year in the US didn't get the titanium shifter either and none of the USDM's came with Momo steering wheels like other markets. It might have been US specific regs and Recaros might have needed extra type approval, so they went with retrimmed GSR seats? It could be simpler again; the USDM only centre console. I run a JDM 98 Spec DC2 R(in silver) and when such things were easy to find and cheap I put a few other market's bits and bobs into it. Things like Euro rear lights(clear indicators) and a USDM centre console. Turns out it fits, but makes it a pain to adjust the back of the Recaros. What's kinda crazy about this model and unheard with today's "World cars" is how different markets could have so many different parts for no clear reasons. The headlights an obvious one between JDM vs rest of world, but there were four different rear lights too. Only Japan got HID lights from 98 on. Acura branding only for the US another. Floor mats were different between JDM USDM, UKDM, EUDM. The USDM engine was slightly detuned for lower octane petrol. The catalytic converter was different(shorter) in the JDM models. For some reason the US and Canada got the JDM only EK9 Civic Type R 15 inch wheels and never got JDM/Euro 15's or the JDM only 16's. Only USDM cars got that external hatch switch and the switch on the door handles. US and Euro cars didn't get red stitching on the shift boot. And the US are only ones with steel square section beams behind the bumpers(and extra cross bracing behind the dash). In Canada and only there you could get them with the rear seats trimmed in red. The USDM rear seat with the plastic divider tray was only in that market. Rear seats get even weirder when you find out the EUDM rear backs don't _quite_ fit a JDM car and vice versa. Euro cars got a rear foglight and height adjustment on the front lights. There was a tiny 100 car run just for the Swiss market that came in yellow with the US/EUDM front, with Yellow Recaros and yellow stitching and branded Type R 2000. The US, Australia, Japan and Switzerland got yellow as an option. Europe didn't. Silver was only ever a JDM thing. The JDM got far more option deletes and Honda Access options and never had rear wipers. Hell in Australia they got different coloured brake calipers. Cos reasons. :) No wonder Honda lost money on these cars. Their accountants must have needed valium. :)
I just don’t understand why didn’t you guys bring back the Type R badge on the new integra. Yes I get the civic is there but even tho I do like the integra Type S, the Type R badge would’ve been a home run.
Thanks for the comment & feedback! Just to be clear, when you say “you guys”… this channel isn’t sponsored or affiliated with Honda & Acura! With that said, everyone is entitled to their opinion, so thanks for sharing yours!
@@Drive_Culturemy apology but yes I did mention “you guy” because you’re part of there team but my question or comment was really outside of addressing directly the brand but rather a general question being that you know the brand well. Why a Type S integra and not a Type R integra to truly satisfied the consumers who’s been with the brand for among time? That would be my question to you and wanted to know your opinion. I do own a 23 TLX Type S with the Perf. Wheel and tire but if there were a Type R integra, I would’ve gotten that instead
How is it so difficult to keep old body designs and rerelease them in modern day? For example the old 3rd generation Lude with a VTEC engine. Is it because the assembly lines aren’t set up for it?
Thanks for the comment! If you’re asking to keep the actual original vehicle online, yes, that is not good business as those tools are scrapped after production is finished.
Last question wheToyota brought over their Supra Prototype it was a longer chassis than what was released. My confusion is if Lambo’s and Porsche GT3 are being produced how is t not possible to produce that longer Supra on a platform by itself and sell the car starting at $90,000
Thanks for the comment! Yeah I can’t really speak to what Toyota was thinking or doing! Ultimately, there were probably constraints since they had to share the same platform as the BMW Z4!
@@Drive_Culture yes, I agree but could you imagine if they kept that length? I'm referring to the Prototype they brought over to Jay Leno Garage: That design was so fire😍 Instead they collaborated with BMW and produced a STUBBY version😂
Forget about buying the new Integra or Civic. The closest thing you can get to a real type R like the dc2 is the gr86/brz. Present Honda is just garbage.
Thanks for the comment! We all have an opinion, but the gr86/brz are quite different than the DC2-R! Despite the fact that the ITS & CTR are 5-door, they’re easily the closest thing to a modern DC2-R! Drive them both and the ITR back to back and tell me I’m wrong! 🤣
@@Drive_CultureI used to have a dc2r years ago, and I regret selling it, but now I wanted something new that resembles the dc2r. Test drove the new ctr, and while it was fast and handled well, I didn't particularly like it. It didn't have the same soul as the older Type Rs. It has way too many tech drive modes and too many drivers assisting safety tech (thanks to safety regulation). It doesn't even have a mechanical hand brake anymore. It's trying to do everything and please everyone, like a lot of modern cars today. A real Type R formula is supposed to be minimal. A pure driver's car that focuses on performance and driving engagement over comfort and practicality. After test driving the gr86, I was sold it's the closest thing to a dc2r. It's a 2-door coupe like the dc2r (even though the dc2r is classified as a hatchback because the boot opens up with the back windows). You sit down low like a true sports car. It's small, its light weight not as light as the dc2r but light for modern standards, and it doesn't have any driver assistance tech (well, now they do in the 24 models because of regulation I was lucky I got my back in 23). The gr86 doesn't have any driver mode. It's just one mode all the way. You do have a track mode, but it doesn't change anything about the car feel it's just change the tach display and turns off traction control. It's the most raw, pure driver's car that every minimal in today's times. The only difference is that the gr86 is rwd and the dc2r is fwd.
@@Drive_Culture I used to have a dc2r years ago, and I regret selling it, but now I wanted something new that resembles the dc2r. Test drove the new ctr, and while it was fast and handled well, I didn't particularly like it. It didn't have the same soul as the older Type Rs. It has way too many drive modes and too many drivers assisting safety tech (thanks to safety regulation). It doesn't even have a mechanical hand brake anymore. It's trying to do everything and please everyone, like a lot of modern cars today. A real Type R formula is supposed to be minimal. A pure driver's car that focuses on performance and driving engagement over comfort and practicality. After test driving the gr86, I was sold it's the closest thing to a dc2r. It's a 2-door coupe like the dc2r (even though the dc2r is classified as a hatchback because the boot opens up with the back windows). You sit down low like a true sports car. It's small, its light weight is not as light as the dc2r but light for modern standards, and it doesn't have any driver assistance tech (well, now they do in the 24 models because of regulation I was lucky I got my back in 23). The gr86 doesn't have any driver mode. It's just one mode all the way. You do have a track mode, but it doesn't change anything about the car feel it's just changed the tach display and turning off traction control. It's the most raw, pure driver's car that every minimal in today's times. The only difference is that the gr86 is rwd and the dc2r is fwd.
my father has one! bone stock! its a classic car thats aged well and is still fun!
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its a crime to not lower it a bit. Still a great car.
@@Drive_Culture phoenix yellow with about 25k miles!!
@spiff922 let me know if he ever decides to sale it
One of the last true analog cars. That’s what makes these so valuable now. no driver assist and all of the extra weight is not there. Honda truly made amazing cars at this time.
Thanks for the comment & feedback! Totally agree on all points! We should have some more old school analog cars on the channel, so hope you subbed to come back for more!
Much respect for giving sporty Honda cars so much love on your channel. Please do AP1, AP2, and Club Racer S2000 videos!
Thank you for the comment & feedback! Challenge accepted! Will plan to shoot S2000 videos in the next few weeks! Hope you subbed to come back for more!
@ yup! Already a subscriber. Look forward to the S2000 videos. Thanks!
Beautiful DC2-R!! Heads across Perth Amby, NJ and Allentown, Pa just exploded!!! LOL! But seriously, finding ANY unmolested DC2 is nearly impossible.
LOL! Thanks for the comment! Too funny, and I completely agree! Driving this car was so pure and it felt like it just came off the dealer lot! Anyway, hope you subbed to come back for more!
The car sounds like a real race car … love love love
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I lusted after this when it was on the showroom floors, still do. Definitely a collectible.
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You had me giggling and smiling along with as you were giving it the beans 😂👍. I was lucky enough to growing up in Chicago to see these cars on the road. Especially at this one dealership in Schaumburg, Illinois
LOL! Yeah it was hard not to contain my laughter and joy in driving this classic!! I know Schaumburg, almost took a job there… great suburb!
I like the round headlights better 👍
Agree! 👍🏾
USDM is better. The JDM looks like the Accord front end.
I wish my Integra is a Type-R!
Thanks for the comment! Give us the specs on your car! What year, trim, color is your Integra? Yeah Type R was truly something special! Hope you subbed to come back for more!
@ My ‘95 Milano Red RS I’ve owned for 8 years now. Was one of my dream cars back in the day. The car is just lowered with A/M coil overs & volk ce28 wheels + SiR-G front lip. I’ve been subscribed since I noticed you made the account! I’ve known you from a video of the new Integra Type-S on Jay Lenos page.
I still remember the time I had 4 people in my 94 GSR in college, coming back from a road trip. Me and 3 girls. I thought I was hot stuff lmao! 😂😂 still have the car today with almost 400k miles all original drivetrain. It’s no Type R of course, but man that VTEC still sounds badass on those highway on-ramps.
Thanks for the comment & feedback! What color was your GS-R? What nice memories! If you haven’t watched already, we also have a review of a GS-R here on the channel! Hope you subbed to come back for more! 👍🏾
@@Drive_Culture the BEST GSR color, Paradise Blue Pearl BG-33P! haha
Dream car. Way too much money to afford now. I settled with the Type R Fk8 limited edition that will do for me 😊
Thanks for the comment! Yeah, dream car for sure, but you’re right… examples like this are six figures now! 🤦🏾♂️ Congrats on the FK8 LE, what serial # did you get? Gonna try to get one on the channel soon! Hope you subbed to come back for more! 👍🏾
I have owned every generation Integra, this Type R generation is by far my favorite especially in yellow. Going from this to a owning the RSX Type S and now the 2024 Integra Type S. These are special cars. This new 2024 Type S has a beautiful sound. Hopefully the HRC that’s coming is a sign of a Type R in the near future. Great Video! 👍
Wow! Thanks for the nice comment & what an awesome ownership experience you’ve had! How are you liking your ITS? What color did you get? I (obviously) love mine! If you haven’t already, hope you sub to come back for more! 👍🏾
Got the performance red pearl w/ the carbon fiber spoiler and the blacked out badges with the illuminated front emblem. Absolutely love this car but got my eye on that yellow HRC with that massive wing!
Love it. i bought a 1990 acura integra 21 years ago. I put a integra type r engine in it and made it as close to a integra type r as I could. I loved the car and still do even though I don't have it anymore
Amazing ride!
Thanks a lot for the comment! You of all people would know! 😉
Im the proud owner of exactly this car in Australia. Is a shame the Acura integra didn't come with the Recaro seats, Momo steering wheel and anthracite wheels as well as a couple of other things. Still a stunning car nonetheless
Wow! Thanks for watching & commenting from Australia! You’re super lucky to own this car, especially with the full JDM treatment! Unfortunately, the US market cars missed out on those features! Feel free to spread the word about this channel there & hope you subscribe to come back for more!
@Drive_Culture liked and subscribed, the JDM car culture here is massive
I remember test driving a 98 Integra Type-R and comparing it against a 99 MX-5 Miata. I went with the Miata and never looked back. Way more immersive experience, albeit with some concessions on practicality. Clearly the Type-R would have been the better investment now looking back.
Thanks for the comment & feedback! Yeah the Miata is a great car, which offers a totally different driving experience. Just depends on what you wanted, but yes… the Type Rs have held their value well when they’re low mileage and not modified! Hope you subbed to come back for more!
i think the 94-97 front headlights looked a little cleaner in design
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94-97 gang!
I got one for you. This one was my favorite when I was in College in the 80’s: It’s the BMW 320is. Yep if you can find that 😱. It came in 3 colors; black, red, and white. Came stock with BBS wheels and OEM STOCK RECARO’s👌. Offered in manual only . It was a head turner👀
Thanks for the comment! That may be a tough one to find, but as the channel continues to grow, we’ll look to get cool enthusiast cars like that on the channel!
@@Drive_Culture Appreciate your channel taking us back memory lane. Not to mention showcasing history; from what use to be to the present 👌👊
The answer is yes
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A Modern Integra Type R designed by Jordan Rubinstein-Towler is literally what I would buy...
If Honda knows how much love , nostalgia and demand there is for the DC type R, then, Why won't Honda make a Modern Type R like this; small Civic hatchback/ Integra Coupe hatchback with double wishbone suspension and high revving NA engine?
I remember when even the Base Civics, 1988-2000, had Double wishbone suspension. Today all the Civics have lame Mcpherson Struts. 🤦♀️🤦♂️🤦
Thanks for the comment & feedback! Not sure who that designer is, so I’ll have to look him up. Double wishbone suspension is a great tool, but it’s not the only way to make a car handle amazing. The current gen of Civic & Integra, especially their performance variants don’t have it, but handle like they’re on rails!
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So nice👍. Looks like you’ve outdone yourself. To me it’s CLEARLY the JDM culture is immersed in your veins having lived/ worked and speaks Japanese . I am in Awe 👀
Wow! Thanks for the nice comment & feedback! Yeah the 🇯🇵 culture and language are ingrained for sure! 👍🏾
s2000 waiting room🤩🤩
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Uh no……
Indeed!!
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This is a very good video, as owner of a DC2, and making a video on it a couple of years ago, the information you bring forth due to it being Acura Type R, with the 4 round headlights, that came on the USDM and EDM/european market, but now that I own a Integra JDM front, I am blown away by how great the car is. But yellow is an amazing one. Its also so special to see the car NOT have the Recaro seats that was standard EVERYWHERE but the US, do you have any good info on WHY this is?
Wow! Thanks a lot for the nice comment & detailed feedback! That’s so awesome that you actually own a DC2, how many miles does yours have? And what color is it? I can only speculate on why the US market cars didn’t get the Recaros and it prolly came down to cost and the fact that they were too narrow for the “American body type”!?
@@Drive_Culture Mine is Nighthawk black sir, and its done 230.000 kilometers now. I daily this car because I cant stand how people stop driving these machines to keep a higher value. The value is in the experience, maintain it well, baby it and do it justice and the value should keep on. And I have an American body type, I still fit very easily into the Recaro SR3s :)
@@Drive_Culture +1 on the good vid. Subbed. :) The seats are an odd one alright. I suspect costs that might have put it above a certain pricepoint that US buyers might have said no to? The first year in the US didn't get the titanium shifter either and none of the USDM's came with Momo steering wheels like other markets. It might have been US specific regs and Recaros might have needed extra type approval, so they went with retrimmed GSR seats? It could be simpler again; the USDM only centre console. I run a JDM 98 Spec DC2 R(in silver) and when such things were easy to find and cheap I put a few other market's bits and bobs into it. Things like Euro rear lights(clear indicators) and a USDM centre console. Turns out it fits, but makes it a pain to adjust the back of the Recaros.
What's kinda crazy about this model and unheard with today's "World cars" is how different markets could have so many different parts for no clear reasons. The headlights an obvious one between JDM vs rest of world, but there were four different rear lights too. Only Japan got HID lights from 98 on. Acura branding only for the US another. Floor mats were different between JDM USDM, UKDM, EUDM. The USDM engine was slightly detuned for lower octane petrol. The catalytic converter was different(shorter) in the JDM models. For some reason the US and Canada got the JDM only EK9 Civic Type R 15 inch wheels and never got JDM/Euro 15's or the JDM only 16's. Only USDM cars got that external hatch switch and the switch on the door handles. US and Euro cars didn't get red stitching on the shift boot. And the US are only ones with steel square section beams behind the bumpers(and extra cross bracing behind the dash). In Canada and only there you could get them with the rear seats trimmed in red. The USDM rear seat with the plastic divider tray was only in that market. Rear seats get even weirder when you find out the EUDM rear backs don't _quite_ fit a JDM car and vice versa. Euro cars got a rear foglight and height adjustment on the front lights. There was a tiny 100 car run just for the Swiss market that came in yellow with the US/EUDM front, with Yellow Recaros and yellow stitching and branded Type R 2000. The US, Australia, Japan and Switzerland got yellow as an option. Europe didn't. Silver was only ever a JDM thing. The JDM got far more option deletes and Honda Access options and never had rear wipers. Hell in Australia they got different coloured brake calipers. Cos reasons. :) No wonder Honda lost money on these cars. Their accountants must have needed valium. :)
Thanks!
Wow! Thanks always for the amazing support! 🙌🏾
Look like he film this at CSULB parking garage
Thanks for the comment! It’s nice to shoot in an open parking lot with no distractions!
I just don’t understand why didn’t you guys bring back the Type R badge on the new integra. Yes I get the civic is there but even tho I do like the integra Type S, the Type R badge would’ve been a home run.
Thanks for the comment & feedback! Just to be clear, when you say “you guys”… this channel isn’t sponsored or affiliated with Honda & Acura! With that said, everyone is entitled to their opinion, so thanks for sharing yours!
@@Drive_Culturemy apology but yes I did mention “you guy” because you’re part of there team but my question or comment was really outside of addressing directly the brand but rather a general question being that you know the brand well. Why a Type S integra and not a Type R integra to truly satisfied the consumers who’s been with the brand for among time? That would be my question to you and wanted to know your opinion. I do own a 23 TLX Type S with the Perf. Wheel and tire but if there were a Type R integra, I would’ve gotten that instead
How is it so difficult to keep old body designs and rerelease them in modern day? For example the old 3rd generation Lude with a VTEC engine. Is it because the assembly lines aren’t set up for it?
Thanks for the comment! If you’re asking to keep the actual original vehicle online, yes, that is not good business as those tools are scrapped after production is finished.
Safety regulations.
Last question wheToyota brought over their Supra Prototype it was a longer chassis than what was released. My confusion is if Lambo’s and Porsche GT3 are being produced how is t not possible to produce that longer Supra on a platform by itself and sell the car starting at $90,000
Thanks for the comment! Yeah I can’t really speak to what Toyota was thinking or doing! Ultimately, there were probably constraints since they had to share the same platform as the BMW Z4!
@@Drive_Culture yes, I agree but could you imagine if they kept that length? I'm referring to the Prototype they brought over to Jay Leno Garage: That design was so fire😍 Instead they collaborated with BMW and produced a STUBBY version😂
😍😍😍😍😍
Thanks for the comment! I couldn’t have said it better myself! 👍🏾😂
Forget about buying the new Integra or Civic. The closest thing you can get to a real type R like the dc2 is the gr86/brz. Present Honda is just garbage.
Thanks for the comment! We all have an opinion, but the gr86/brz are quite different than the DC2-R! Despite the fact that the ITS & CTR are 5-door, they’re easily the closest thing to a modern DC2-R! Drive them both and the ITR back to back and tell me I’m wrong! 🤣
@@Drive_CultureI used to have a dc2r years ago, and I regret selling it, but now I wanted something new that resembles the dc2r. Test drove the new ctr, and while it was fast and handled well, I didn't particularly like it. It didn't have the same soul as the older Type Rs. It has way too many tech drive modes and too many drivers assisting safety tech (thanks to safety regulation). It doesn't even have a mechanical hand brake anymore. It's trying to do everything and please everyone, like a lot of modern cars today. A real Type R formula is supposed to be minimal. A pure driver's car that focuses on performance and driving engagement over comfort and practicality. After test driving the gr86, I was sold it's the closest thing to a dc2r. It's a 2-door coupe like the dc2r (even though the dc2r is classified as a hatchback because the boot opens up with the back windows). You sit down low like a true sports car. It's small, its light weight not as light as the dc2r but light for modern standards, and it doesn't have any driver assistance tech (well, now they do in the 24 models because of regulation I was lucky I got my back in 23). The gr86 doesn't have any driver mode. It's just one mode all the way. You do have a track mode, but it doesn't change anything about the car feel it's just change the tach display and turns off traction control. It's the most raw, pure driver's car that every minimal in today's times. The only difference is that the gr86 is rwd and the dc2r is fwd.
@@Drive_Culture I used to have a dc2r years ago, and I regret selling it, but now I wanted something new that resembles the dc2r. Test drove the new ctr, and while it was fast and handled well, I didn't particularly like it. It didn't have the same soul as the older Type Rs. It has way too many drive modes and too many drivers assisting safety tech (thanks to safety regulation). It doesn't even have a mechanical hand brake anymore. It's trying to do everything and please everyone, like a lot of modern cars today. A real Type R formula is supposed to be minimal. A pure driver's car that focuses on performance and driving engagement over comfort and practicality. After test driving the gr86, I was sold it's the closest thing to a dc2r. It's a 2-door coupe like the dc2r (even though the dc2r is classified as a hatchback because the boot opens up with the back windows). You sit down low like a true sports car. It's small, its light weight is not as light as the dc2r but light for modern standards, and it doesn't have any driver assistance tech (well, now they do in the 24 models because of regulation I was lucky I got my back in 23). The gr86 doesn't have any driver mode. It's just one mode all the way. You do have a track mode, but it doesn't change anything about the car feel it's just changed the tach display and turning off traction control. It's the most raw, pure driver's car that every minimal in today's times. The only difference is that the gr86 is rwd and the dc2r is fwd.