Old-school cool, rear-drive V8, classic style The bent-eight will start at about $ 60K. It’s old- fashioned, and unashamedly so.Īussies miss out on the excellent V6, but we’ll be able to buy the 2.3-litre turbocharged four-cylinder model as the entry-level ’Stang, priced around $45K. With an independent rear end for the first time and obligatory creamy 5.0-litre V8 soundtrack to back up its 324kW pun h, the Mustang is an everyman’s two-plus-two coupe. Ford doesn’t want its new global sports car to be mere ‘Boulevard Cruiser’ and our first drive of the new sharply styled yet still unmistakable Mustang in its native North America proved it’s on the money. THERE will be no Falcon coupe, but this is even better. It’s about time Honda sent a salvo to the Europeans At around $45K, it makes the VW Golf R look plain boring. Yet the warrior-like wings and addenda aren’t merely to woo wannabe racers they’re for carving up the Nurburgring, with Honda out to beat the hot-hatch record of 7:54.36 held by the radio-less Renaultsport Megane Trophy R.įorget lap times, though: the R will be one hard charger, with an adaptive chassis, six-speed manual only and trick ‘Steer Axis’ system to get all that power through the front treads. The UK-built ‘more than 206kW’ Civic ditches the traditional atmo engine for a turbocharged 2.0-litre four and a suit that looks like some kind of Japanese anime armour. THIS is the most powerful Type R ever, with even more grunt than the NSX R tuned by one Ayrton Senna. October 2015, $300,000 Honda Civic Type R
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