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Originally Posted by angie4m
I'm sure your in the minority of drivers that are responsible(when driving) but for one point of the feature Clarkson got it right when he pointed to the young lad in the crowd!
Honda have tried to get away from their image of the CTR being a boy racer car. It costs more to buy and insure and no doubt run!
As for the old CTR, I don't know anyone over the age of 25 who drives one! He also got it right about the boot being big enough for a sound system, most folk with the CTR aint gonna do that. Fact of the matter is Honda designed the new Type R to get away from the stereo typical driver which was a young male in his early 20's.....it now aimed at mid 30's professionals.
Example.........today minding my own business in a 40 limit doing 40 dead on and all of a sudden out of nowhere a gunmetal grey old style type r comes out of nowhere full of young lads and tries to overtake. I have to brake hard for the fact there is something on the other side of the road and he would hit a traffic island and then me! These are the kind of drivers I come up against every day in the old CTR, I must say on an occassion you do see someone in their 30's/40's and they are actually driving like every other civilised human being unlike the lads who think they are Lewis Hamilton! |
I agree that the majority of people I see driving old
CTR are young lads and are usually driving quite erratically, but I put this down to the used car market, the car is now much more accessible to younger people - I am starting to see a fair few people driving the cooper-s like loons which I never used to.
Generally speaking, people that buy a car from new are more likely to look after it more and hence drive it a little more carefully too IMHO...
Take the M3 driver or indeed the M5 - how many of those do you see being revved stupid? No new ones that's for sure - they're too worried about damaging their pride and joy!