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Friday, August 21, 2015

Spotted for Sale: 1990 EF8 Honda CRX SiR - Unregistered! Malaysian JDM fans rejoice.

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Now this would interest the local JDM fanboys. Someone has actually imported in a 1990 Honda CRX SiR from Japan as I have spotted on the local mudah.my website. As it is something from 1990, it is a good 25 years old and qualifies for classic car status as well as the classic car import status too. This is pure Honda VTEC folks. A holy grail aside from owning an NSX.



I love this tiny little sports car. It is 158hp of totally awesome Honda VTEC performance of the purest and most unmolested kind. Hard to find these days as this original beauty comes from the time when it was all horsepower and nothing else. The power from the 1.6liter engine came in at over 5,500rpm and whilst you would actually need to keep the twin cam, variable valve timed engine on song, it was superb when it sang. Or wailed like a Banshee (that's pontianak in local terms). These days the more intelligent VTECs do not have that clear step up in performance and noise like when it was in this second gen CRX.

If you got the dough, a mere RM58,000 for something so light, nimble and fast (it weighs under 1,000kg) do grab this baby. I totally remember being driven in one many times in the mid to late 1990s when a close friend of mine owned one. It was magnificent. Complete with the noise, step up power and actual speed (0-100kmh was at least in the mid 7secs when stock). I think the experience of driving one in 2015 would still be as good as it was in 1995.

This was purity. Normally aspirated, high revving purity. Which is why Mazda built their latest MX-5 in this way. Which is why I did not exactly warm up to the hybrid Honda CRZ all all. It was a poof compared to this predecessor.

Grab this I say. Grab it quick if you can. An unregistered, low mileage (119k km is considered low) JDM classic car is out for sale!!!! Wow!

Read the original ad (while it lasts) at http://www.mudah.my/1990+EF8+Honda+CRX-38883526.htm#AIU9UC4Uy1kcqS66.99 or down below:

The only issue is the fact that the car comes with wheels from a ...CRZ. But find a set of period Mugen alloys and it'll be close to perfect.

Seller Says


Make    Honda
Model   CR-X
Type    Others
Transmission    Manual
Engine Capacity 1600 cc
Mileage  120 000 - 129 999
Reg. Year  Unregistered
Mfg. Year  1990

1990 EF8 Honda CRX
Color: Black
Imported From Japan: JUST ARRIVED! 2015
Engine: SiR B16a
Mileage: 120,000
Original
Showroom Quality \ Tip Top condition

Keeping my Info list very simple so if you have any particular questions regarding the car, contact below

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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Fun under RM150,000. Honestly..where the heck are the Japs these days.

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In Malaysia RM150,000 seems to be a the threshold when it comes to buying a slightly more premium car. This figure could be seen as a sensible figure where the price buys you something large and nice or fast and sporty without breaking the bank.

Of course, this price segment is filled with large D segment cars with a 2.0 liter engine like the Honda Accord or a Hyundai Sonata or European and Japanese C segment type cars with either a 2.0liter normally aspirated engine or a smaller 1.6liter and below turbocharged one. But when it comes to actual performance cars in this price range we have to ask...where the heck are the Japanese?


In the 1990s when most wanted sprightly performance we ended up buying Honda Civic EG or EK VTECs that would give us sub 9 seconds 0-100kmh timing for under RM120,000 (unreg grey imported ones). We had the Honda CRX SiR with 160hp in a 1,000kg body. We had Mazda doing 1.8liter turbo hatchbacks for their WRC homologation. We had Mitsubishi giving us the Mivec Colts and we even had a Nissan Sunny GTi-R.

These days we have only Suzuki dishing out a very juicy Swift Sport for us to purchase at RM100k+ if we want some Japanese driving fun. The Honda CRZ hybrid was a missed opportunity, at under RM120k under tax breaks but now at over RM186k , as it wasnt fast at all.even when compared with the Swift Sport. The Civic Type Rs have stopped production and only a few unreg examples from grey importers remain. Toyota's 86 is still overpriced and is mostly sold at a higher price.

It actually leaves us with the Europeans for anything that you can do 0-100kmh under 8.5 seconds and a over 200kmh maximum speed. You have the Ford Fiesta ST, the Peugeot 208GTI, the VW Polo GTI to name a few. Oh...Hyundai has crept into this list too with its newly launched Veloster Turbo (below). I've driven most of these and at this moment no Japanese car under RM150k bar the Swift Sport (due to its impeccable handling) gives more thrills than the cars mentioned right above. 

Where are the Japanese in small car or affordable car fun? Its not as if it has been because the local distributors have not imported one in because the Japanese do not have any. There are no Mazdaspeed 2, no Jazz Type R, no Toyota Corolla Levin Trueno under Rm150k that is made anywhere in Japan. And no, a Mazda3 2.0 still is not a purpose built sports hatchback according to the criteria I have given. It needs more power and torque to head under 9seconds to 100kmh.

I suppose the Japanese are chasing profit margins over anything else. But I sometimes wonder whether this is the way to go for them. Slapping on a bodykit and making a bread and butter model look sporty is all they are doing these days. Performance car buyers need to look to Europe and Korea.

Eventually the mindset for the younger generation of performance oriented consumers will ignore Japanese makes as the household names famed for performance will be European and Korean with the exception of Suzuki. What the Japanese built up in the 1980s, 1990s would be laid to waste.

Full circle mind you. In the 1960s and 1970s we were all into Alfa Romeos, Fords, Fiats and Peugeots. We are back where it was...minus Fiat and Alfa Romeo though.
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