With TD/Honda it's definitely a case of not putting the car out until it's available. Honda have only just released this Type R in the last 2 years and have a lot of FK stock to shift. If I'm not mistaken, the reason the tourer was uses was as a stop gap until the current Type R was available.
Side note, the support of Honda is not diminishing, the company I work for supplied TD with some kit last year and we won't for 2017 because Honda want uniformity across their "factory" touring car efforts. For clarity, this is because they are now a much bigger partner for the team and so TD have had their hands forced. They were very apologetic, it's just business.
Luke
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