07-18-2004, 10:44 AM
theguywiththeSi Wrote:well that's another idea. If the Civic type-R was available over here the 'JDM' aftermarket (which people pay a shitload to get jdm parts) would diminish greatly. Honda may be recieving a lot of money from japanese vendors or US vendors and cusotmers from these requests. (off-the wall idea...) I also agree that they should bring over a very limited quantitiy of CTR's as a test to the market, but i really think that the Si is a smarter business decision. Less costly to make and people still want to buy a lot of them. Although i can't see how much more expensive the CTR is to make over the Si. I hear they're making the new generation of civic's soon and the new Si will be a coupe version again.
JDM parts sales are a drop in the bucket for Honda and they mean nothing for American Honda. The only major costs of the CTR over the Si is additional crash testing (because of the different ride heights), the cost of the K20A2, and some small stuff like the aero parts. Same with the DC5R. This generation of Type-R vehicles is actually less expensive for Honda to make than the previous generation (no labor intensive stuff like chassis reinforcement or port polishing).