Can Honda Civic Type Rs Get Cheap Already?

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I emotion nan Honda Civic Type R. This shouldn't really beryllium news to anyone who's ever publication anything other I've ever written connected nan topic, but I'm a large instrumentality of Honda's hottest of hatches. I for illustration them capable that I would moreover see owning one, and it's truthful seldom worthy owning a car successful Brooklyn. But thing keeps preventing maine from ever putting rate down: Used Civic Type Rs costs excessively damn much. 

The existent FL5 generation, sure, I understand those being expensive. It hasn't been astir each that long, and galore group for illustration its subtler looks to nan much fierce styling of nan previous-gen FK8. I, though, thoroughly bask nan FK8's driving dynamics astatine ineligible speeds, and I honestly deliberation its looks person aged gracefully since nan days erstwhile it was decried arsenic looking for illustration a Gundam (as if that's someway bad). I'd emotion to get my hands connected nan older car, but they're still reliable to find nether $30,000. 

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Every Type R I see retired location is 1 of 2 things: Over $30,000, aliases successful immoderate measurement wrecked. So galore of these cars travel pinch salvage aliases rebuilt titles, pinch astir each 1 claiming to beryllium a theft betterment and perfectly decidedly not a chassis that was twisted to each hellhole aft a driver tried to drift their front-wheel-drive Civic and ended up understeering into a thoroughfare lamp. Maybe nan sheer number of wrecked cars is artificially boosting prices of nan bully ones, constraining their supply, but still — 30 grand? For a nine-year-old Civic?

As a car journalist, I would very overmuch for illustration a Civic Type R. As a car journalist, though, my $65,000 net isn't covering a $30,000 decade-old Civic immoderate clip soon — particularly not while New York City rents are what they are. My dream of a gracefully-aging FK8 seems everlastingly retired of reach, but possibly someday I'll get to ain 1 of these awesome basking hatches. Preferably successful yellow.