VarmintCong
Senior Member
Yeah an AWD V6 Acura version would be awesome but would also be 300-400lbs heavier. So it’d be a different animal.Speaking as someone with a fully modded, tuned Type R: the current platform can't be pushed too much farther while still maintaining the reliability and stability that Honda is targeting. Using anything short of Cup 2's, I can spin my tires in 2nd through 4th, and I've most certainly introduced a minor element of torque steer with all the extra twist. A SH-AWD platform just makes sense, even if it's still paired with the same K20C1. That said, I think that the new V6 Turbo from the TLX Type S makes sense as an inclusion on the new R. Honda's unit cost must be pretty high on it right now, since it's only used in one low-volume model. Honda began sticking modified versions of the K20C1 in many different high volume cars and it really brought the unit cost of that engine down. It stands to reason that they could do the same with the V6 Turbo.
Plus it'd sound amazing. The K20C1 is capable of a lot of things, but sounding great is not one of them.
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