Quote Originally Posted by fasthonda View Post
If I got the price of 2,835,000 YEN correct for the FD2,a straight out conversion is approx $28,200 AUS ,of course there are other costs involved such as transportation,duties etc.if it does come to Australia.
It's a shame that Thailand is not geared up to produce Type Rs,because of the Free Trade agreement between the two countries and if Honda wasn't too greedy, we could probably buy the FD2 for about $43,000 on the road.
Part of the reason why the FD2R is quick and responsive is because of the team of dedicated Type R engineers working on it. They probably are the same guys who used to hand refine the DC5R, NSX and S2000 engines. If they were to make it in Thailand, they would need to send their engineers over to Thailand for long term if they wanted to keep the quality of the FD2R's mechanical parts up. Remember, it is not only the chassis strengthening of the FD2R that is different from the normal FD2. The engine has critical hand-tuned parts that require an experienced engineer to work on. They can't replace experience with machinery or cheaper fresh labour.