Highlights Long-term enthusiast ownership Careful ownership - garaged over winter Largely original with considered upgrades Several original parts (air box, exhaust back box etc) included in sale Recently serviced Overview The DC2 Integra was Honda’s first official UK Type R model, and we can scarcely imagine what people were thinking as the first cars hit our shores; here you had a car that was pared-back with a few optional extras, peak power delivery at over 7,000rpm and striking red Recaro seats! To say it was a contrast to the sort of cars we were used to seeing at the tail end of the 1990s would be an understatement.

These days ‘driver focused’ can be somewhat of a throwaway term - and with good reason: if you have fewer than 3 screens and an army of haptic feedback buttons in a modern car, it’s termed ‘driver focused’ compared to the majority of new cars - but the DC2 really was properly designed with the keen driver in mind.

Thrills be damned, this was a car for those that lo...