The Next Honda Civic Type R Has Arrived, And It Wants To Punch Every Other Hot Hatch In The Face
Ladies and gentlemen: lock up your VW Golf Rs and Renaultsport Meganes, because the new Honda Civic Type R is here. And damn, does it look angry.
It’s been revealed ahead of its the Paris Motor Show debut in prototype form, and while previous reports had indicated that the 10th generation Civic-based Type R would have its looks toned down compared to the crazed ninth-gen car, but if this prototype is anything to go by, that isn’t going to happen.
We have a front splitter, a pair of side skirts and a rear diffuser made from carbonfibre, a huge bonnet vent, and of course, a spoiler of Brobdingnagian proportions sitting on the boot. To up the visual aggression further, the show car is finished in a “highly reflective, finely-grained brushed aluminium-effect.”
And that’s about all we know for now. Under the bonnet we’re expecting the same 2.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder as seen in the current Type R, albeit with a little more power on tap. A figure closer to the 345bhp enjoyed by the Focus RS, we’re thinking.
A production version will be revealed next year, and yes, you will be able to buy it in North America for the first time.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
Comments
When will they stop beating it with the ugly stick?
It looks so shouty, so angry, the Civic Type aaaaaaaaarrrrrr!
lame joke
You mean BWAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH
laughs in pirate
so lame i only realised it was a jole when you said it was
Maybe its just constipated…
Why cant this car have a 6 cylinder vtec engine :( (not the j35 something different)
Wouldn’t it need to be able to catch up with other hot hatches such as the Focus to be able to punch them in the face?
They’ll give it more power to get close but no point putting 400bhp in a fwd hatch because it can’t put it down and it wouldn’t be nice to drive
It should hopefully weigh less than the RS or the Golf R so whatever they put out should keep it competitive with them.
It look like someone crushed a suv,stuffed a wing behind ,put a more powerful engine and call it a day
I’m the only one to think it’s ugly af ?
Nope
Yea
Y U NO SEDAN :(
this looks so much better than the previous one imo
Vtec finally kicked in yo.. wooo
Honda Reventón Type-R?
He’s here to take revenge on all the Honda jokes, everybody HIDE!!!