We could bore you to death with the detail but highlights include a more rigid body, sharper and more direct steering, suspension fettling to make it more stable at high speeds, new ducts to keep the brakes cool on track and improved aerodynamics. The old car was already a sublime handling car, but Honda has improved it in lots of areas.
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Mated to one of the sweetest manual gearboxes around (with tweaks to make it even better), it rips through gears and delivers plenty of potency across the rev range.īut there's more to the new Civic Type R than just the engine. Now putting out 329PS, it's the most powerful front-wheel drive production car on sale. The 2.0-litre turbocharged petrol engine that powers the hot Civic is familiar, but there's been loads of little mechanical tweaks to improve power, efficiency and response.
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Meanwhile, the recipe under the skin hasn't changed that much either. The brand could've easily just killed it to focus its resources on electric cars and hybrids, and probably will do after this one. The same problem applies to the fantastic, but doomed to be rare, Toyota GR86 sports car.īut hey, at least there actually is a new Honda Civic Type R. You can blame emissions rules and supply issues for this, with Honda admitting individual European markets will only see a few hundred examples at best. Partly because it now starts at an eyebrow-raising £47,000, but mainly because production numbers have been severely restricted. This new 'FL5' generation is still recognisably a Type R, but with a softer and more rounded design that should draw in a wider audience. Honda obviously thought it was time the silliness was dialled down a bit for a more mature, universally appealing look, like the standard (and rather excellent) new Civic on which it's based. It reminded us of cars like the old Subaru Impreza WRX and Mitsubishi Evos - loved and hated in near-equal measure. And while that grew a dedicated fanbase, many people were put off by the 'in-your-face' design and associate image that goes with shouty, aggressive-looking cars. These previous Type Rs were hot hatchbacks that weren't afraid to shout about it.
These are words and phrases that absolutely nobody used when describing the last two or three generations of Honda Civic Type R.
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