The All New Honda Civic Type R: Unrivalled Performance

The All New Honda Civic Type R: Unrivalled Performance

 

The world's most strongly anticipated hot hatch, the all-new Honda Civic Type R, has arrived in South Africa. Billed as a 'race car for the road', this latest-generation Civic Type R provides unrivalled performance and driving involvement.

A race car for the road

•    V-TEC turbo engine rated at 228 kW and 400 Nm

•    Next-generation performance hatchback provides class-leading dynamics Advanced, high-revving

•    Outstanding safety, driver assistance, comfort and convenience features

•    boosts chassis and engine response for superior driving thrills

•    Unique suspension ensures rewarding handling and maximises power transfer New +R mode

•    Dramatic styling enhances airflow to aid performance and stability

 

The all-new Honda Civic Type R is the most extreme and highest performing Type R ever built, and sets new standards in the fiercely contested high-performance front-wheel drive hatchback segment.

Boasting an all-new forced-induction VTEC Turbo engine, advanced new suspension systems and focused styling that delivers the visual excitement expected of a Type R while enhancing stability and performance, the new Civic Type R sets new benchmarks for power delivery, handling dynamics and whole driving thrills.

This very exhilarating new model signals the start of a new performance era for Honda, drawing on the brand's racing DNA to inhabit the top position in the Honda Civic line-up.

Part of a wave of next-generation, all-new Honda vehicles, the new Civic Type R establishes the brand's ground-breaking tactic to technological innovation which makes life better for its customers.

Enthused by the Japanese word 'buttigiri', which translated means 'to break  through and leave the rest behind', Honda's engineers sought to develop a Type R that would more than live up to the high prospects related with the red badge.

The new Civic Type R has been engineered to provide a dynamic, class-leading performance regardless of whether it is being driven on fast roads, through a twisty mountain pass, or on a racing circuit. At the same time, it remnants true to the ease of use and practical packaging predictable of a Civic.

The new Type R combines a world-first bid of Honda's new VTEC Turbo engine with a sumptuous sporting sound, to violent function-led styling and innovative new chassis technologies. The result is a profound driving machine: a super hatch correspondingly at home on the road as it is on the track, at the push of a button.

Offered as a full-specification five-door model, the Civic Type R is set to project Honda back to the top of the two-wheel drive performance hatchback group.

Tested for victory: lap record around the legendary Nürburgring Nordschleife

As part of a rigorous and thorough development and testing programme, a pre-production development Honda Civic Type R attained a lap time of 7 min 50,63 sec around the legendary 20,8 km Nürburgring Nordschleife circuit in Germany. This time is unrivalled by any other front-wheel drive performance hatchback.

The lap time was attained during the final phase of pre-production testing in May 2014 by a Civic Type R growth car in a standard state of engine tune, with brakes, exhaust, drivetrain, suspension and the aerodynamic package identical to those of the production Civic Type R.

The removal of equipment such as air conditioning, the front passenger seat and audio equipment offset the extra weight of a full roll cage (installed precisely for safety reasons, and not to add rigidity).

During the test cycle, the development car used production-specification high-rigidity 19-inch alloy wheels. These were fitted with the 235/35 R19 Continental  SportContact 6 road tyres industrialised precisely for the new Civic Type R.

The Type R has since become the first production vehicle to be fitted with the new Continental SportContact 6 as unique equipment.

Pricing

The new Honda Type R is obtainable in limited numbers through Honda Motor Southern Africa's national dealer network.

The retail price of R586 400 includes a five-year/200 000 km warranty, and a five-year/90 000 km service plan, while a three-year AA Roadside Assistance package is also involved. Services are at 15 000 km intervals.

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