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Miguel Cortina, Frank Markus

“What a great car! The Type R sends the message that front-wheel-drive cars can be just as fun to drive.” In the decade we’ve been running BDC, we’ve invited only 10 front-drive cars to compete. They tend not to do well against rear-drive or all-wheel-drive cars that handle better and put down power more authoritatively. No previous front-driver has made a judge wonder, “Could this be our first front-drive winner?” This little Honda did. “The Type R is perhaps the best front-drive, factory-delivered car I’ve ever driven on a racetrack,” a grinning Randy Pobst gushed. “It was a thrill. This whole car behaves as if it costs a whole lot more than it does. It’s swinging way above its fighting weight.” Angus MacKenzie declared it “the best front-drive hot hatch in the world.…

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MotorTrend (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2018

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