Just caught some info on car and driver on spike tv, there doing a show on the honda sir type r and a celica trd. the celica wes completly striped, and a turbo but only ut done 150hp and cost about 44k and i forget about the honda but it was up around that price to. now my question is when they did the track times it was 0-60 around 6.1 i think and 1.4mile was in the 14.5-.9 .... umm isint that slower then the ralliart? even on a bad run? just seems funny that they would advertise a "tunner car" that cost ~44k but sucks

 

no, Raliart has 0-60 in just above 7 seconds and they do 15.4 give or take in the 1/4 mile

 

you may be thinking bout the evo. it does low 13's and it cost roughly 32k.

 

Those times are faster than the Ralliart. However, you can easily smoke those times without raising the value of your car to $44k.

 

yeah it just seemed realy high for that much money,

 

celica had tdr supercharger and exhuast and was not the gts motor

 

44K coud get a corvette or a heavily modded EVO. Such a waste. Especially on a semi-girlly vehicle. I'm talking about image, not performance.

 

im guessing he means $44k canadian..... like $35k US

 

No, $44k US. This was a fairly heavily modified Civic. Engine swap to whatever engine the Type-R in Europe has. Suspension, wheels, brakes, transmission, CF, interior, etc. Same goes for the Celica - supercharged, suspension, brakes, paint and vinyl, interior lightening, etc.

 

I saw that epsiode. It was a UK 240bhp Type-R engine/trans swap into basically a USDM sI frame, it ran 0-60 in 6.1 and 1/4th in 14.9. The sI cost 19.5k, w/ all that work they put in it cost about 44k.

Yes, it's faster than a stock ralliart, but hell it should be... look @ the swap alone. We all know the USDM sI has nothing on the RA thou.

 

Still seems alot for nothing, 20k car and dumping 20k+ to achive those #'s? The celica's interior was gutted. just seems like a bad advertising campain in my eye's. even if it a more show then go concept. if those are the tunned #'s after 20k is put in. i'd hate to see the stock #'s

 

Your only looking at 0-60 and 1/4 mile times though. Put it on a road course and start recording lap times and you'll see how much faster they are. A lot of money went into suspension etc. Sometimes cars have to turn.

 

Exactly how much does it cost to gut a car? hmm....

 

 

44k on a civic. Man. Somebody watched 2F2F too many times. Seriously, if you got that much cash to burn, start with a better platform.