You may want to give this link a read buddy. Makes good reading.
http://asia.vtec.net/Engines/R18A/index.html
http://asia.vtec.net/Engines/R18A/index.html
I made the same mistakeI don't think he knows... someone let him down gently.
This.
I agree with you. I do feel slightly disappointed but I knew I wasn't buying a performance engine so ah well.This.
I blame Honda...
They market it as VTEC, they should call it EcoTEC or something (im no marketing wiz)
But no one seems to explain to new buyers that they dont have a small CTR block under the hood!
No but you thought you were buying a VTEC engine that's similar to the CTR engine, and no one told you otherwise!I knew I wasn't buying a performance engine so ah well.
Or, say, ETECThis.
I blame Honda...
They market it as VTEC, they should call it EcoTEC or something (im no marketing wiz)
But no one seems to explain to new buyers that they dont have a small CTR block under the hood!
It's not that it feels slow. It is replacing a 140bph Celica for the wife, and feels slightly heavier but around the same speed as that (Parkers treats it as almost identical 0-60).If the 1.8 feels slow to you though - try a 1.4 lol![]()
But the other side is that if marketed as VTEC, it sounds like an affordable "baby" typeR vtec engine to a younger audience!I agree that they should use a different term for the i-VTEC system. I'd have thought it would be likely to hurt them the other way round, if I was looking for an economical daily driver and didn't know much about it, I think the idea of a "firebreathing VTEC" engine might put me off. Seems like silly marketing to me.. but then lots of things do :S
Yes, that makes sense. Maybe I should try it... I usually drop it down to 3rd though first...IBut if you drive along at a steady 30 in 4th and put your foot down, you may well feel the switchover![]()