Lighter than the traditional solid end plates? Maybe? Functional and aesthetically pleasing for this new body?
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Who colored that blue one? It's photoshopped. I thought something looked off - the blue coloring is covering the black extractor vent behind the front wheel and all the fender bolts and whatnot.FL5 Type R JDM Spec leaked, +40kg；Reservation skyrocketed in Japan reported by Bestcar
The actual spec was already leaked about 1 month ago, and it was confirmed by the new brochure below(not the old one released in July), the official release date is Sep.1 for Japan (scheduled to accept orders officially by Honda, even it's fact that dealer already takes reservation ). JP Honda...
Brochure leaked revealing specs
1430kg (3152 lb)
243 kW @ 6500 rpm (325 hp)
420 Nm @ 2600 - 4000 rpm (310 lb-ft)
EDIT:
2023 Honda Civic Type R Makes 315 HP and 310 Lb-Ft of Torque
The newest Type R becomes the most powerful Honda production vehicle ever sold in the U.S., and we've got all the specs and details right here.
US Spec confirmed to have "315 hp at 6,500 rpm and 310 lb-ft of torque from 2,600 to 4,000 rpm."
The plates are painted the same colour as the car in all of Honda's press photos.
The Type R is dope except it can't be an effective year-round car in half the country. I suppose that's not its purpose but that relegates it to being owned by people who can afford two expensive cars rather than a single useful one. With the GR, I could do absolutely anything I wanted all year round, including drive to work in the snow.
To be fair, that has never been the Type R ethos. At the same time, a FWD car is perfectly capable of winter duty as long as the roads are reasonably maintained. My little Mazda2 did fine over the course of 2 Michigan winters and it didn't even have snow tires.
Really makes you wonder how much of "inflation" is just greed.
The S2000 was honestly pretty anomalous. Honda doesn't have all that much history building pure sports cars if we classify the original NSX the same way you are classifying the new one. It's been only the S series cars and the Kei cars that we don't get it...unfortunately. The S660 seemed awesome.So Honda was racing the NSX in GT500 for the longest time but the DTM rule era forced them to take a mid-engined car and make it front-engined.
Now this exists:
Well, at least the engine is finally in the right spot.
But this highlights a glaring gap in Honda's lineup: An actual sports car. They haven't build an actual sports car since 2009 when the S2000 went tango uniform. The NSX doesn't count, it's been a true super car for quite a while, relatively unattainable even compared to cars like the GT-R. But Nissan also tossed the 350Z and 400Z into the mix. Toyota, what was once the most boring company on the planet, currently races two platforms in Super GT. Mazda can't afford to do anything factory-backed anymore and even then the Miata is so small it might not fit GT500 regs anyway. And then there's Honda, converting economy cars into race cars because they accidentally didn't build a sports car since 2009. And that one never actually raced in Super GT either, don't forget.
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I know this has about zero-percent probability of happening, but what about giving us a Civic Si-H?...basically that powertrain but with the Si's 6 speed manual gearbox. Honda still probably has horror flashbacks about the failure of the CR-Z, but I think that was a well engineered product marketed incorrectly - it shouldn't have been positioned as a CR-X successor.US-spec Civic will receive hybrid powertrain from the upcoming Accord, likely to make 204hp:
2025 Honda Civic Confirmed to Add Hybrid Powertrain
The 2025 Civic Hybrid will be offered as a sedan or a hatchback and will get its powertrain from the larger Accord.www.caranddriver.com
I hope Honda builds a proper amount of these cars. The only reason to limit their supply would be some kind of cynical marketing gimmick. They are pretty damn awesome...I just wish they started at $35k instead of the frankly absurd ~$45k. It's a great car, sure, and more than the sum of its parts. But the sum of it's part ain't a big premium over a Civic Si (its not as if the 2 liter is all that special, its a volume engine) to start with. They must be making huge margins on these Type Rs.Type R orders halted in Japan market due to demand outstripping supply
Honda Civic Type R orders stopped in Japan due to high demand
Due to high demand and an uncertain parts supply, Honda is temporarily not accepting orders for the Civic Type R in Japan.
I almost feel like the absurd dealership markups would encourage Honda to produce more Type R’s. It’s clear that demand outpaces supply, and manufactures hate dealer greed for diminishing brand morale. Simply, more Type R’s would lower prices across the board.
Supply and demand concepts don't apply to monopolies and the dealership system is effectively a sort of distributed monopoly. They're all basically cooperating to gouge customers. We also live in a time of unprecedented greed which has been the primary driver of this "inflation" we've been suffering.
