Review automotive Honda fans, cheer: the turbocharged Honda Civic Type R hot trapdoor will go to the U.S. market. The energizing declaration came as Honda demonstrated the 2016 Honda Civic Concept at the 2015 New York automobile expo and reported bunches of news about the eventual fate of the Civic lineup.
We'd yearned for the 305-hp Type R following the time when its introduction at the Geneva automobile fair not long ago, however had surrendered trust on its odds in America since the European-market hatchback is not sold here. Presently, as a component of a push to globalize the Civic lineup, Honda says it will bring the five-entryway Civic hatchback on which the Type R is based to the U.S. market, implying that the hot lid will join the lineup on our shores.
The Honda Civic Type R hatchback utilizes a 305-hp, 2.0-liter turbocharged VTEC four-barrel that powers the front wheels through a six-speed manual transmission. We believe it's feasible that this powertrain will proceed on generally unaltered for the U.S., and the Type R's versatile suspension framework ought to stay also. The majority of this execution potential consolidated not long ago to set a rankling lap time of 7 minutes, 50 seconds on the testing Nürburgring course, beating the past front-wheel-drive creation lap record, also all the more intense games autos.
We don't have particular points of interest yet on timing for the Honda Civic Type R's entry in the U.S., however stay tuned for more data on this energizing expansion to the Civic lineup.
