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 [...]
Honda of UK announced today that its popular 3-door Civic Type R hatchback will be shipped to Japan and will go on sale in 2010. The model, which will be called Type R EURO, will built at Honda’s plant in Swindon and will be exported to Japan. Japan is the third country outside Europe to [...]
Honda’s new Civic Type-R looks very good but when it comes to performance it hasn’t quite impressed many as its predecessor managed to do. Now, Japanese tuner Mugen is out fix all that by applying the modifications from the Mugen RR to the Civic Type-R three-door hatchback. Mugen will strip the Type-R of most of [...]
