I would not touch one at £47k!!
That is probably the reason Honda didn’t send very many to the UK.
The price is eye watering especially considering the relative good value the previous Type R’s were so Honda probably thought demand would be low.
The thing is a lot of car enthusiasts seem to have a hell of a lot of disposable income and there are a lot of people that love fast Hondas. Maybe Honda UK misjudged it or maybe the factory called the shots.
Not a million miles away from me is an importer of JDM cars bought directly from auction in Japan and shipped to the UK.
The prices of some of these cars are very high but they don’t struggle to sell them.
As a VW person it all goes over my head but there’s definitely money in it and people are happy to pay the high prices for what I’d consider an inferior product in many cases.
A colleague of mine is very in to JDM stuff and the cars are certainly not ultra reliable, he’s had a number of issues with cars he’s bought from the importer (torqueGT), the worst being head gasket failure on a Subaru which wasn’t a straight forward fix due to the JDM engine being lower cubic capacity than the Euro spec engine which meant specialist parts needed sourcing (big £££)
Anyway, my point being people will pay the money if there’s enthusiast demand and car enthusiasts are weird.
