Among Honda's performance cars, the Civic Type-R is definitely the most prestigious model, although it is not as expensive as the Toei Ferrari NSX, but it is the Honda performance car that many fans can buy with hard work. After 11 generations of evolution, now the latest Civic Type-R has gradually entered the mass production stage, so Honda has carried out an official brushing challenge at its own Suzuka circuit to prove the strength of its new Civic Type-R and show off its muscles by the way.
In fact, in Honda's home market, megana R.S. Trophy-R is a strong competitor of the Civic Type-R, and in 2019, it refreshed the lap time of the Suzuka Circuit front-drive model with a score of 2:25.454; then Honda hit back with a limited edition of the 1,000-unit Civic Type R (FK8) Limited Edition version with a score of 2:23.993, once again proving who is the king of the front-drive car.
Megane R.S. Trophy-R
Civic Type R (FK8) Limited Edition version
And this latest lap challenge model is also replaced by a new generation of Civic Type-R, after a tense brush lap, at 2:23.120 to create the fastest lap of the new front-drive car of the Suzuka Circuit, nearly a second faster than the previous generation of Civic Type-R, not to mention that the Civic Type R (FK8) Limited Edition is a enhanced version of the model, it is conceivable that after the launch of the enhanced version of the new Civic Type-R, the lap speed will definitely be refreshed again.
The new Civic Type-R still uses a 2.0T four-cylinder turbocharged engine, while it is powered by 316 hp and is a manual model. It is worth noting that the power output of the previous generation of models will vary from region to region, such as 316 horsepower in Europe and Japan, while in other regions it is 10 horsepower reduction, but in this generation will use all 316 horsepower, so engineers have done a lot of upgrades and modifications to the new engine.
Editor's summary: With the increasingly stringent emission standards today, and electric vehicles continue to become a new power point for car companies, performance cars like The Civic Type-R will gradually become niche; and the next generation of Type-R will also use hybrid mode, so this Type-R may be the last generation of pure fuel performance cars. Although it seems a little sad, it can only be said that we can still see the performance car such as the Type-R and should be relieved, otherwise it will be those who are on the road in the future, and then it will be really sad.
However, in recent years, japanese car companies, the investment in performance cars has not stopped, in addition to the new Civic Type-R, there are like Toyota's latest release of GR Corolla, Nissan 400Z are very highly playable performance cars, in addition to the new generation of Volkswagen Golf R, BMW M2 will have new performance cars released, perhaps this will be the last carnival of performance cars. Although it is difficult for us ordinary consumers to decide anything, we really hope that this performance car party can end a little later.