GTP Cool Wall: 1998-2003 Honda Accord Type R

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1998-2003 Honda Accord Type R

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1998-2003 Honda Accord Type R nominated by @Famine
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Engines: 2.2L I4 (H22A7)
Power: 209 hp
Torque: 164 lb-ft.
Weight: 1348 kg
Transmission: 5-speed manual
Drivetrain: Front engine, front wheel drive
Body Styles: 4-door sedan
Additional Info: "The sensible, grown-up car of the Type R family, the Honda Accord Type R is the most unusual thing - a Japanese car that was never sold in Japan. Designed and built in the UK by Honda at Swindon, the Accord Type R used the European market Accord chassis and a considerably larger 2.2 litre engine than its more buzzy and frantic Civic and Integra siblings to produce a performance sedan still sought after today.

The Accord Type R also had a dose of F1 heritage. While Ayrton Senna was busy being responsible for how the NSX handled, Williams-Honda world champion Damon Hill had a finger in the ATR's behaviour. "It's quite good", he was heard to enthuse once - and he kept his personal Type R for over a decade."​
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Even while being the grown-up of the Type R family, the Accord was still a great sports saloon. Couple that with its prestigious Touring Car Racing career and you have a great recipe. Take the spoiler off and you have even better sleeper-esque looks.
 
Dodges the image issues that might hit a Civic by being an Accord, while still clearly being sporty and yet strangely classy. A low cool, but only just.
 
The Type-R for the thinking man, except this is the most forgettable Type-R despite touring car pedigree.

Meh.
 
I have a real soft spot for these, my boss in London had one when they came out that I coveted due to it's twin pipes and huge rear spoiler. But it's only ever going to be a cool from me and not an SZ.
 
4 dr family saloon with silly spoiler.

Uncool.
 
It's just a sporty Accord, and the wing doesn't help.

SU.
 
Obscure sports version of a dull saloon. Too obscure to look cool with Type R badges.* And then there's the big
spoiler
which doesn't help it at all.

Uncool.

*Looks self made instead of factory effort.
 
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I like the way it looks. But it's not cool.

Meh.
 
An Accord can never be cool, even if Type R. And I absolutely love these.
 
An otherwise boring Honda that I actually care about. Big points for being virtually unassociated with the typical Type R crowd and has aged a lot better than, say, the Mazdaspeed 6.

Very likeable, but it dips down into uncool. The humdrum basis for this version is something I struggle to overlook.
 
This Accord is my auntie's car for a long long time.

But it's not with us anymore. I remember how we didn't really had a feel for it's performance until i was in it.
 
It's an Accord.

Uncool.
 
Seriously Uncool, for reasons already stated.
 
Decent performance, practical family car, race pedigree. Low cool.
 
If only because I'll never see one outside of playing GT, cool.
 
In my book, competent driver's FF cars generally qualify for a Cool once they've aged, even if this one isn't as mature as it could be without that wing.
 
Not doing it for me. So meh.
 
My local curry house had one as a delivery vehicle for a while.

Good, but not very cool, the spoiler just doesn't work, and I think it will make normal non car people think you're a berk.
 
Although I like sleepers this is just an Accord with a body-kit and a spoiler. Very good and awsome, but ultimately uncool
 
As nice as it is, a racing pedigree and actual performance ability means almost nothing to me.
 
As neat as the backstory is, it's still a Honda Accord with a wing and a red letter "R" on it.

Uncool.
 
I love these (and very nearly had one) but the majority of them are owned by boys or women who treat the like a regular Accord and that to me makes it uncool.
 
Sensible, mature member of a performance family that is neither of those things. It's an oxymoron. It almost seems apologetic: "I'm not like those other Type-R's, honest!"

Yet I've always liked them. Not sure if it's actually properly Cool to anybody that isn't a car enthusiast, though.
 
The image of these has been destroyed. Anything of that year range I automatically write off.



Uncool.
 
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