Two-Car Solution... with a TWIST! Ariel Atom 4R & Civic Type R | Henry Catchpole - The Driver's Seat

Visit us at https://www.hagerty.com. --- An Ariel Atom 4R and…? The fantasy garage game is a good one. Especially when you start putting in some rules. The most basic restriction is to limit the number of cars that you can choose, but after that you can start getting creative. In today’s episode of The Driver’s Seat on Hagerty, Henry Catchpole ponders a two car garage where the cars must share an engine…

There are all sorts of possible engine options from Mercedes and BMW and Ferrari and Jaguar Land Rover, but the one that Catchpole has chosen is from Honda. The 2-litre, four-cylinder turbocharged K20C isn’t the most exciting engine when set against some of the other options like a naturally aspirated Ferrari V12 or a twin-turbo V8 from AMG, but it is attached to two very different but brilliant drivers’ cars.

The obvious one is the Honda Civic Type R FL5. Now a little more demure in the looks department but no less fun or tactile to drive. The other half of the garage is taken up with the wild new Ariel Atom 4R. The R takes the engine’s outputs up to 400bhp and 369lb ft of torque. It also adds a Quaife sequential gearbox with paddle shift and, if you want, quite a bit of aero.

What hasn’t changed, however, is the fundamentally brilliant chassis of the standard Atom 4, which makes it absolutely brilliant to drive - even when you’re on a soaking wet Anglesey circuit. This R also offers a seven stage traction control system and a twelve stage Bosch ABS system as options to help you out, while you can up the ante even more by adding carbon wheels and carbon ceramic brakes.

A very diverse duo then, but with an engine in common and driving enjoyment at their respective cores. Quite the two car garage. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as Henry clearly enjoyed getting soaking wet and cold (he’s an oddball, we didn’t make him do that). If you would like to support the show then please think about clinking on this link to the Hagerty Drivers Club - it would be much appreciated: https://bit.ly/Join-HDC-Henry

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