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[moons]

I know how you feel buddy but it's how things are since we can't get the real FD2R here.

The FD2R - if it ever were to be sold in Australia - would be expensive and consequently exclusive. With all the FD1s running around playing pretend, this very marketable quality is clearly a non-starter.

Yes the government and Honda Australia/Japan do hold the claim to the main players stopping the FD2R from bring imported, but surely you can see that the action of the "we love the colour red when it is surrounded by a silver H crowd" are, at the very least, not helping the cause.

Lets face it, these people wouldn't buy a real FD2R anyway because of the extra cost, manual box, etc. because all they want is "the look."

And don't think Honda hasn't noticed that "the look" just happens to always mirror that of the real performance variant, without the actual performance!

While you enjoy lookign the goods, pat yoruself on the back for making watered down Type Rs marketable.