Honda Built A One-Off Civic Type R Pickup Truck And It’s Glorious

A group of Honda UK engineers has been working after hours on a bizarre and brilliant hot pickup concept
Honda Built A One-Off Civic Type R Pickup Truck And It’s Glorious

Here in the UK, pickup trucks aren’t really a thing outside of super-rural farm yards. However, if there’s one way to get us excited about truckin’ it’s to take a lairy, bewinged hot hatch and convert it to have a flatbed.

That’s exactly what a crackpot team of engineers at Honda UK have done. The one-off concept was built at the firm’s Swindon plant using a pre-production Civic Type R that was presumably just lying around waiting to be crushed.

The team ripped out everything rear of the B-pillar and replaced it with a flatbed loading bay. The iconic and divisive rear wing remains, but can be lifted out of the way should you need to actually put anything in the back.

The pickup uses identical mechanical gubbins to the standard car, so that’s 316bhp and 295lb ft of torque from a 2.0-litre turbocharged VTEC engine going through the front wheels. Honda estimates the pickup Type R could do the 0-60mph sprint in under six seconds before topping out at 165mph.

Honda Built A One-Off Civic Type R Pickup Truck And It’s Glorious

Alyn James, project lead, said: “We have a special projects division at the factory in Swindon and this project was a fantastic opportunity for the team to show just what their creative minds could do.

“The passion that our engineers have for Honda is shown in our latest creation and we are even considering taking it to the Nurburgring to see if we can take the record for the fastest front wheel drive pickup truck!”
Now that is something we’d like to see!

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Comments

Jianyu Sun

Now where I’ve seen this before

05/24/2018 - 08:57 |
88 | 2

I want that BMW…

05/24/2018 - 12:31 |
8 | 0
H5SKB4RU (Returned to CT)

I would like this as a production idea,it would be certainly great

05/24/2018 - 08:59 |
4 | 2
Jonathan Claus Hendra 2.0 (still the best racer in West Coas

When you want ultimate VTEC but utes are life. Oh wait.

05/24/2018 - 09:08 |
2 | 2
Ali Mahfooz

Taking the idea of a render and turn it into reality. 😅

05/24/2018 - 09:12 |
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AC2 - The Now 14 Year Old CTzen

In reply to by Ali Mahfooz

Render looks better

05/24/2018 - 12:15 |
2 | 2

Render is much nicer, having the small rear window and no wing on it’s back.

05/24/2018 - 12:40 |
22 | 0
DaReelTuna

Australian Shingo?

05/24/2018 - 09:15 |
14 | 0
Blade noir

Honda Australia has got to put the Civic ute on the market!
They’ll sell!

05/24/2018 - 09:18 |
2 | 0

It would have to have AWD, otherwise it would be bad for cargo

05/24/2018 - 11:38 |
0 | 0
Klush

Now everything will fit in your Honda

05/24/2018 - 09:20 |
272 | 0
Anonymous

In reply to by Klush

uhm, no.
It for sure won’t fit a Belaz

05/24/2018 - 10:41 |
2 | 2
Anonymous

In reply to by Klush

Let’s play the game will it fit in my Honda

05/24/2018 - 11:40 |
118 | 4
Spani3l

Here’s a E92 M3 Pickup I spotted at a show over the weekend

05/24/2018 - 09:22 |
136 | 2

Cars, coffee and donut lol

05/24/2018 - 10:40 |
8 | 0

Notice how a BMW “pickup” has a working tailgate, while a fwd Honda “pickup” has a wing to ease access.

05/24/2018 - 12:39 |
6 | 0

Wouldn’t it be more like an E94 M3?

05/24/2018 - 13:23 |
2 | 2
Anonymous

There is a reason why the majority of pickups are rear wheel drive…

05/24/2018 - 09:23 |
28 | 0
Nishant Dash

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

i k r

05/24/2018 - 10:32 |
0 | 0
Blade noir

Moog will be happy to read this!

05/24/2018 - 09:48 |
0 | 0