Honda unveiled a new concept at this year’s Geneva Auto Show to provide a pointer for a new estate variant of Europe’s latest Civic called the 2013 Honda Civic Tourer Concept. That said, knowing Honda’s consistent history of producing automobiles that strongly resemble their original concept designs without major changes, you can bet good money [...]
Over the past week and in build up to the 2012 Paris Auto Show, Honda of Europe and Honda CEO Takanobu Ito have been slowly releasing details of the next generation Honda Civic. In lieu of this, Honda had released a new press statement that gave some more official details on what to expect for [...]
Honda Motor Co. has intentionally spilled a big bucket of beans. The Japanese-brand released a press statement and in tandem with a contributing report from AutomotiveNews, Honda has some big plans for their future lineup, for the time being. According to Honda themselves, the brand’s CEO Takanobu Ito confirmed that a new Civic Type-R will [...]
Honda has offered up the details on its latest Civic race car motor for the upcoming World Touring Car Championships, dubbed the HR412E. The motor is an inline-four 1.6-liter turbo with direct injection, and may be the precursor to a Honda Civic Type-R turbo. While Honda has not released any specs, we do know that [...]
At the 2013 Paris Motor Show in September, Honda plans to announce the development of the new Civic Type R, according to company insiders. The model will then be previewed in concept form at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show in March before it goes on sale later that year. No word on what will be [...]
Earlier this week, Honda released the first details and images of the upcoming Honda CR-Z ICF, a performance version of the hybrid hatchback developed by the company’s in-house tuning firm Mugen. Showing its commitment to performance models, senior sources at Honda have confirmed that the company will indeed be doing a new version of the [...]
Along with the debut of the new Euro-spec Honda Civic, chief engineer Mitsuru Kariya was able to release some information regarding Honda’s future. This particular bit of news refers to the popular hot hatch, the Honda Civic Type-R. Never has the Honda Civic Type-R been imported into the US. It’s a shame because apparently a [...]
As announced earlier this year, Honda is coming close to ending sales and production of the Civic Type R. To celebrate the end of the ‘Red H’ badge, Honda is bringing together fans of its high performance Type R cars at a special event at Silverstone this month on Aug 22. “The celebration at Silverstone [...]
Honda confirmed today that it will discontinue production of the 4-door Civic Type R at the end of August, 2010. “A purist’s sports car featuring precisely tuned vehicle dynamics, the Civic Type R creates a unity between car and driver for exceptional driving pleasure,” Honda said in a statement. “The first-generation model launched in 1997 [...]
To cater to its UK market, Honda announced today that it will offer a limited edition Civic Type R with exclusive Mugen equipment in April at Honda dealers. Joining the 201-hp i-VTEC engine, the special-edition Type R will get Mugen front and rear bumpers with skirts, 19-inch alloy wheels in “˜Lightning” design, Mugen rear badge, Mugen Limited Edition number [...]
