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GT CHANNEL CAR VIDEO NETWORK. Visit GTChannel.com for more car videos! Male Speaker: Type R the only model in Honda's production car lineup that correctly inherits on those raising genes, the roots are which come from Formula1 racing cars. The Integra Type R debut in 1995 following the release of the first Type R the NSX-R. Although it had a front wheel drive layout which is in common for sports car, the vehicle was regarded as the world's fastest in it's class. Reigning at the top is the fastest car and its class for six years the Integra R has been reborn. And now Gan-san takes the new Integra Type R on to the track. NEW INTEGRA TYPE R This second generation Integra Type R made it's grand debut in early July as a Japanese domestic market. The major changes made to the new Integra Type R with the engine and chassis. The capacity of the natural aspirated engine was increased to 2 liters. Platform of the current Civic is used on the new Integra Type R to clear various environmental and safety regulations, although it's gained a little weight compared to the earlier model the Type R Spirit lives on in the new Integra with the newly equipped 6 Speed transmission, 17 inch tires and Brembo brakes for top performance. Just by looking at the Specs, the new Integra R seems to have the potential to reign for another generation. Motoharu Kurosawa: It was 1995 when the Integra Type R made it's dramatic debut. Of course, performance wise there were other cars like the NSX or some 280 horsepower rivals. But the affordable price tag of this car was a main factor this car success, amongst younger rally fans. The car was very much loved by this people and can easily be spotted on any track event in Japan. Despite having only 1.8 liters, it lap the Tsukuba circuit in 1.8 second range. To me the Integra R is a model that represents the whole Honda R series, and this time after six years the model has been redesigned inside and out. The engine is not 2 liters and the body looks larger then the old model because of the increase in height, but actually hasn't changed that much. By the good bits from the old model that kept with the new model, new improvements and such as brake performance and driving performances were made. I was told that the new model has a potential to run one second faster at Tsukuba, I am very excited to test this car. Male Speaker: Now for Gan-san's first impression of the car on the test course will be checking the cars overall quality basic settings in high speed stability. Motoharu Kurosawa: See how the car reacts at full throttle without slalom, not bad if you considered that the wind is quite strong today very stable. Let's now see how it backs. Oh, I can feel the improvement right quality. The front feels a little heavy might have been better to strength than the road rigidity. The road surface is quite rough here but this car is handling very well, it's a difficult to say I mean if you are going on the track you can use the little more firmness with the suspension, but more users are going to use this car on a daily basis. On the street, the setting of this car might be just right. The car could use a little more power during acceleration this is still out of course, so let's see how we do on the winding road. Let's us first gets some impression of the successful old model although I know you weren't directly involved with the development of the old Integra. What do you think about it Mr. Otobe? Yutaka Otobe: Yes, the previous Integra R started out from an Integra base model sharing the same platform, for example the chassis. The concept was to improve the overall performance by modifying it from the base. Where as the new generation Integra Type R was designed and developed to be the Type R from scratch. Motoharu Kurosawa: I felt that the body rigidity has improved. The engine is easy to use as a torque kicks in from lower revs and across 6 Speed transmission makes overall shifting very, very enjoyable. Yutaka Otobe: I must confess that at the beginning with didn't exactly have the objective to built a vehicle that pursued noise, vibration and efficiency or right quality alone. But as I said previously we were able to develop a new car from scratch which enabled us to design a ridged body for Type R top performance requirements. This basic design ended up giving the car a refined quality riding something we didn't plan on in the beginning. Designing a ridged body gives the car a high quality handling and noise, vibration and efficiency while giving the engine linear torque characteristics making that engine easier to use. Also building a transmission that is easy to shift by strengthening the sync row you will get allied shift wheel that is friendly to the driver. As a conclusion pursuing high performance resulted in total refinement of the vehicle and frankly even I was amazed at how this all worked out in this final product, the new Integra Type R. Motoharu Kurosawa: Which part of the car did you focus on the development the most obviously, the engine but where else did you focused on? Yutaka Otobe: Our goal was to improve the cars overall performance we also focused on cutting a second of the old cars lap time on Tsukuba circuit. We consider several things like the engineer output characteristics along with the horsepower requirements and how the engine should respond for optimum acceleration. We also looked into the relationship between the tires cornering limit and it's cornering speed as we develop the tires. That is how we finalized the new car specs but I must say it was pretty hard to realize all of our goals, it was also a challenge for us to develop the new car with new technologies that we hadn't adopted before such as Brembo brakes and the lightened flywheel made from chrome-molybdenum. Motoharu Kurosawa: I must mean that the developing cost must have been quite high. Yutaka Otobe: Yes. Motoharu Kurosawa: And speaking on behalf of all the fans out there, I should hope the price tag on this new Integra Type R is set out around the same price range as the old car. Yutaka Otobe: Yes, we tried our best. Motoharu Kurosawa: Well, I am going to go take the new Integra R on some winding roads to test see if it's performance is really improved up to the standards of Otobe beside on Honda claims. You know even with the cars advance technology, the cars on faster has no value, I am going to be a little harsh. Male Speaker: Is he ever Gan-san testing the Integra R on the winding course of his home ground the Takasu test course. Motoharu Kurosawa: This is very faster than the old model. I am going to go forward. My first impression of the car was that it was a little bit more mile then I expected, but that was all blown away when I got the car on to a winding road. This car is very fast I hear people saying that the new Integra R had become a tamer vehicle losing the raising obvious. But if you look at the increase traction and the changes made to the camber angle for more speed and stability, we can call this change a positive adaptation to make the car quicker. At this Takasu test course the third, fourth, and fifth gears are the main gears to run on as it has a lot of high speed corners. But even if you run in Tsukuba, which forces use to reduce second, third, and fourth gears this car would run perfectly fine thanks to the close gearing. I have compared the new Brembo brakes with the old model and found that the Brembos have more than sufficient controllability even at full braking mode. Of course, the brakes on the earlier model never faded so it did the job but the increase body rigidity and the bigger Dem tires on this new model must have contributed to this improvement. The controls great for corners that need braking in the corner entrances and existing corners. The increase body weight can't be felt from the driver seat at all. The car is finished perfectly the rear stability attraction on high speed corners especially are both incredible from such driving field you can see how this car evolved in the past five, six years. Other than that you can actually sense improved engine response from the lightened flywheel made from special alloys and shifting has been improved tremendously making the car more response to the driver. The new generation front wheel drive require a special driving skills which is rather different from the techniques require to control wheel all drive rears. But there is a reward in mastering this machine. Whenever I was able to go through corner with the right lane and speed, I got the satisfaction, a pleasure that only the Integra can offer. I think people who buy this car will be able to experience what I am talking about, but I would recommend everyone even in the non-owners to drive this car once and simple enjoy what this car has to offer. GT CHANNEL CAR VIDEO NETWORK.

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Male Speaker: Type R the only model in Honda's production car lineup that correctly inherits on those raising genes, the roots are which come from Formula1 racing cars. The Integra Type R debut in 1995 following the release of the first Type R the NSX-R. Although it had a front wheel drive layout which is in common for sports car, the vehicle was regarded as the world's fastest in it's class. Reigning at the top is the fastest car and its class for six years the Integra R has been reborn. And now Gan-san takes the new Integra Type R on to the track.

NEW INTEGRA TYPE R

This second generation Integra Type R made it's grand debut in early July as a Japanese domestic market. The major changes made to the new Integra Type R with the engine and chassis. The capacity of the natural aspirated engine was increased to 2 liters. Platform of the current Civic is used on the new Integra Type R to clear various environmental and safety regulations, although it's gained a little weight compared to the earlier model the Type R Spirit lives on in the new Integra with the newly equipped 6 Speed transmission, 17 inch tires and Brembo brakes for top performance. Just by looking at the Specs, the new Integra R seems to have the potential to reign for another generation.

Motoharu Kurosawa: It was 1995 when the Integra Type R made it's dramatic debut. Of course, performance wise there were other cars like the NSX or some 280 horsepower rivals. But the affordable price tag of this car was a main factor this car success, amongst younger rally fans. The car was very much loved by this people and can easily be spotted on any track event in Japan. Despite having only 1.8 liters, it lap the Tsukuba circuit in 1.8 second range. To me the Integra R is a model that represents the whole Honda R series, and this time after six years the model has been redesigned inside and out. The engine is not 2 liters and the body looks larger then the old model because of the increase in height, but actually hasn't changed that much. By the good bits from the old model that kept with the new model, new improvements and such as brake performance and driving performances were made. I was told that the new model has a potential to run one second faster at Tsukuba, I am very excited to test this car.

Male Speaker: Now for Gan-san's first impression of the car on the test course will be checking the cars overall quality basic settings in high speed stability.

Motoharu Kurosawa: See how the car reacts at full throttle without slalom, not bad if you considered that the wind is quite strong today very stable. Let's now see how it backs. Oh, I can feel the improvement right quality. The front feels a little heavy might have been better to strength than the road rigidity. The road surface is quite rough here but this car is handling very well, it's a difficult to say I mean if you are going on the track you can use the little more firmness with the suspension, but more users are going to use this car on a daily basis. On the street, the setting of this car might be just right. The car could use a little more power during acceleration this is still out of course, so let's see how we do on the winding road. Let's us first gets some impression of the successful old model although I know you weren't directly involved with the development of the old Integra. What do you think about it Mr. Otobe?

Yutaka Otobe: Yes, the previous Integra R started out from an Integra base model sharing the same platform, for example the chassis. The concept was to improve the overall performance by modifying it from the base. Where as the new generation Integra Type R was designed and developed to be the Type R from scratch.

Motoharu Kurosawa: I felt that the body rigidity has improved. The engine is easy to use as a torque kicks in from lower revs and across 6 Speed transmission makes overall shifting very, very enjoyable.

Yutaka Otobe: I must confess that at the beginning with didn't exactly have the objective to built a vehicle that pursued noise, vibration and efficiency or right quality alone. But as I said previously we were able to develop a new car from scratch which enabled us to design a ridged body for Type R top performance requirements. This basic design ended up giving the car a refined quality riding something we didn't plan on in the beginning. Designing a ridged body gives the car a high quality handling and noise, vibration and efficiency while giving the engine linear torque characteristics making that engine easier to use. Also building a transmission that is easy to shift by strengthening the sync row you will get allied shift wheel that is friendly to the driver. As a conclusion pursuing high performance resulted in total refinement of the vehicle and frankly even I was amazed at how this all worked out in this final product, the new Integra Type R.

Motoharu Kurosawa: Which part of the car did you focus on the development the most obviously, the engine but where else did you focused on?

Yutaka Otobe: Our goal was to improve the cars overall performance we also focused on cutting a second of the old cars lap time on Tsukuba circuit. We consider several things like the engineer output characteristics along with the horsepower requirements and how the engine should respond for optimum acceleration. We also looked into the relationship between the tires cornering limit and it's cornering speed as we develop the tires. That is how we finalized the new car specs but I must say it was pretty hard to realize all of our goals, it was also a challenge for us to develop the new car with new technologies that we hadn't adopted before such as Brembo brakes and the lightened flywheel made from chrome-molybdenum.

Motoharu Kurosawa: I must mean that the developing cost must have been quite high.

Yutaka Otobe: Yes.

Motoharu Kurosawa: And speaking on behalf of all the fans out there, I should hope the price tag on this new Integra Type R is set out around the same price range as the old car.

Yutaka Otobe: Yes, we tried our best.

Motoharu Kurosawa: Well, I am going to go take the new Integra R on some winding roads to test see if it's performance is really improved up to the standards of Otobe beside on Honda claims. You know even with the cars advance technology, the cars on faster has no value, I am going to be a little harsh.

Male Speaker: Is he ever Gan-san testing the Integra R on the winding course of his home ground the Takasu test course.

Motoharu Kurosawa: This is very faster than the old model. I am going to go forward. My first impression of the car was that it was a little bit more mile then I expected, but that was all blown away when I got the car on to a winding road. This car is very fast I hear people saying that the new Integra R had become a tamer vehicle losing the raising obvious. But if you look at the increase traction and the changes made to the camber angle for more speed and stability, we can call this change a positive adaptation to make the car quicker. At this Takasu test course the third, fourth, and fifth gears are the main gears to run on as it has a lot of high speed corners. But even if you run in Tsukuba, which forces use to reduce second, third, and fourth gears this car would run perfectly fine thanks to the close gearing. I have compared the new Brembo brakes with the old model and found that the Brembos have more than sufficient controllability even at full braking mode. Of course, the brakes on the earlier model never faded so it did the job but the increase body rigidity and the bigger Dem tires on this new model must have contributed to this improvement. The controls great for corners that need braking in the corner entrances and existing corners. The increase body weight can't be felt from the driver seat at all. The car is finished perfectly the rear stability attraction on high speed corners especially are both incredible from such driving field you can see how this car evolved in the past five, six years. Other than that you can actually sense improved engine response from the lightened flywheel made from special alloys and shifting has been improved tremendously making the car more response to the driver. The new generation front wheel drive require a special driving skills which is rather different from the techniques require to control wheel all drive rears. But there is a reward in mastering this machine. Whenever I was able to go through corner with the right lane and speed, I got the satisfaction, a pleasure that only the Integra can offer. I think people who buy this car will be able to experience what I am talking about, but I would recommend everyone even in the non-owners to drive this car once and simple enjoy what this car has to offer.

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