The breadvan.
That’s what they called it.
The Ferrari 250 GT SWB, the wind-cheating special built for the 1962 running of Le Mans?
No, the EP3-chassis Honda Civic Si, sold from 2002 through 2005.
It was a bit big. It was boxy.
It was also Honda’s first post-wishbone Civic Si–and, as we’d later find out, the final Civic Si hatch …
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By the way, an update about the numbers on the GTI’s roof coming up shortly. There’s some more GRM project history involved there as well.
Yes, a lot of fun had that day–and more to come.
What an insult to the outstanding and competent Mk7, comparing it to the worst Civic like that.
Having lived (and autocrossed) both, I am finding some similarities that made me think about one of our past project cars. Yes, there have been a few decades of progress but, at the end of the day, both are kinda XL-sized hot hatches with similar mission statements.
I autocrossed a first gen Rabbit when I was in college. I can understand needing a lot of rear swaybar. It may have taken a moment for the front end to take a set but it took the rear whole seconds to take a set!