It's calmly the best big-ticket Civic yet, costs a wallet-withering £38,599 and in one faculty is an complete bargain.
Why? Because anniversary of these acquainted 240bhp Type Rs costs about £190,000 to build, applique architect Mugen a £150,000 accident for every archetype sold. Which makes it easier to accept why there will alone be 20.
There is adjustment to this budgetary madness, however, the enactment of Honda agent tuner Mugen in the minds of UK petrolheads actuality the aim. We Brits buy added Type R Civics than any added country, including Japan, presenting this affability specialist with a appetizing bartering opportunity. Mugen agency "unlimited" – allegedly of power, rather than amount – and admitting it's endemic by the Honda family, with a history addition aback to 1973, it operates alone from Honda.
Unusually, the action of authoritative these 20 appropriate Civics occurs absolutely in the UK, Honda aircraft British-built Type Rs from its Swindon bulb to Mugen's bounds in Northampton. The priciest aspect is the absolute strip-down and high-precision clean of the agent into what's around a full-race, hand-built £19,000 motor.
A new air intake, redesigned pistons and camshafts, the abatement of the aerialist shaft, a revised cyberbanking ascendancy bore and a fiendishly complicated, twin-tailpipe bankrupt in stainless animate are allotment of the package, admitting it's mostly labour that runs up the bill.
The aftereffect is a 39bhp ability addition to 240bhp, a 10 per cent torque boost and a rev absolute continued to a babble 8,600rpm. A limited-slip differential, 32 per cent lighter admixture wheels, UK-tuned suspension, upgraded brakes and a bodykit are additionally provided.
Despite that aerial amount there are options, too, including stickier Yokohama elastic and the backup of the rear bench by a blended bulkhead, acid addition 86kg over the 20kg already pared from the accepted car.
Horsepower watchers may instantly achieve that 240bhp for £38,599 compares ailing with the 300bhp, £26,995 Ford Focus RS, but Honda claims that the Civic will circumnavigate the Nürburgring 2.7 abnormal per lap quicker.
