I've drove one when I chose to buy a new car in March. I had 2 hours and to be honest i was a little disapointed. In a straight line they're quite fun but round corners, even long sweeping bends they handle like MPV's. I'll admit if this was the first car i stepped into in march to test drive, then I believe I would have been quite happy with it, because at the end of the day it's not slow... but I had already test driven the Renault Clio Tsport V6, the Focus RS, A Golf R32 and a Renault Clio 172.
You may argue that these cars except the 172 are way outside the Civic Type R's retail price and should be expected to out perform the Civic, but the 172 also blew it away which costs less than the Civic. I love the Civic's pretty unique gear stick position though heh
