300 milliseconds?!
Although the steering feel is somewhat lacking on my quick-ish Honda, it’s very accurate, the nose is satisfying pointy and the back end nicely throttle adjustable. The gearbox is almost perfect and it’s a lot of fun to rag down an empty B road drifting every corner, snatching the changes just before hitting the limiter (and overheating the brakes once this summer – doh!) but very chilled on long motorway journeys. A good diesel may be quicker much of the time but with that weight up front dulling the handling, the disappointing noise and the cost of servicing outweighing the mpg now I do low mileage, the economic case doesn’t outweigh the fun.
If I had a properly fast car I’d be even more annoyed by traffic and at risk of losing my license! The way the roads are nowadays it’s a bit like MTBing some of the best trails on the planet amongst ’90s Beijing style two-wheeled congestion, with fines being handing out if you land in the top 20% of Strava times. So to enjoy a car you definitely don’t need the equivalent of a 6″ FS enduro monster. A shame the Type-R was killed by emissions regs but it seems turbos are getting better.
