Jackass Not Paying Attention Crashes Into Mans New Honda Civic Type R Right After He Bought It. Onehundred and fiftyone miles. That was all Greg Ellingson got. Get reliability information for the 2006 Honda Civic from Consumer Reports, which combines extensive survey data and expert technical knowledge. Honda Civic Type R overview with photos and videos. Learn more about the 2017 Honda Civic Type R with Kelley Blue Book expert reviews. Discover information. A manual transmission, also known as a manual gearbox, stick shift, nspeed manual where n is its number of forward gear ratios, standard, MT, or in colloquial U. S. That Wrecked 1. Mile Honda Civic Type R Could Be Your Next Salvage Race Car. No, its not safe to drive on the roadsnot in this condition. We kick off Part 2 of our Honda Swap Combinations writeup by taking a look at the H series VTEC motor from Honda. First found in the 1991 Honda Prelude Si, the H22 is. The Honda Civic Si is a sport compact trim of Civic by Honda. The Si Sport Injected trim was introduced for the third generation of Honda Civics in both Japan and. The 2015 Honda Fit might not up the ante in sportiness, but it offers up exactly what urban smallcar shoppers want in safety and convenience featuresand its. And it would take a lot to get it there. But what if you lived in a world without such strict rules If so, that 2. Honda Civic Type R, destroyed this summer by a jackass driver who wasnt paying attention, could be your next salvage race car. One hundred and fifty one miles. That was all Greg Ellingson got with his brand new 2. Nuance License Server there. HondaRead more Read. You may remember Jalopnik reader Greg, who flew to Boston from Philadelphia to buy the new Civic Type R, only to have it destroyed by an inattentive driver on Interstate 9. Soon, that car will be up for auction, and if you want it, it can be yours. No price is listed yet, but go here to check it out. If you want some good news, Greg told Jalopnik that his insurance finally agreed to total out the car, so hell be getting paid out for the purchase he had oh so briefly. Before, Greg was worried hed somehow still be on the hook for part of it luckily, that isnt the case. Heres what he told me about the wreck Today I got to see the car torn down and a got a better look at the damage underneath. The impact went right over the front and rear crash beams. The unibody itself took all the damage in the rear and the AC condenser and radiator were pushed into the turbo. The damage to the engine was enough to total the car. If I would have been hit and pushed into cars instead of tall SUVs the damage would have been absorbed by the crash beams and maybe would have been able to save the car. Then again that might have set off the airbags too. Either way, the accident itself and the outcome have been for the best. At the very least, nobody was hurt, and Greg says he hopes to be back in a Civic Type R soon. In the meantime with a bunch of work, you may just be able to pull a Robb Holland and turn this into a great salvage title race car project. You can re bend a frame and fix the motor and turbo. Honda Civic Manual Transmission Linkage DiagramWe think it could be done. If were wrong here, tell me. Any takersThat escalated quickly. I know its a clich, albeit a fitting one for a hill climb race. ButRead more Read.