![]() Let us know if you think it’s fair that mainland Europe could be keeping potentially the best Type R to itself. The new Honda Civic Type R will finally be unwrapped tomorrow (Thursday 21 July), as the hugely anticipated hot hatchback enters its sixth generation and. will get any of these lightweight S models, but our gut feel is that North America, like the U.K., will miss out. 2023 Honda Civic Type R High-Performance Hatchback Honda STARTING MSRP 43,295 50 Years of Civic Fun 315-hp, 2. They are available to order from Honda dealers in Asia and the U.S., however, so Honda is able to claim that they’re ‘production’ tires. Michelin launched the Connect in 2020 and they’re fully road legal, but the rub here is that if you want them for your Civic Type R in Europe where the record was set, you can’t get them from Honda, you have to buy them direct from Michelin. You’re probably familiar with the semi-slick Cup 2 tires from track-ready cars like the Porsche 911 GT3 RS, and the Connect suffix in this case signifies an updated version that can be used with Michelin Track Connect sensors to send real-time data to a smartphone app. Stock, the R rolls on 265/30 ZR19 Michelin Pilot Sport 4S rubber, but the record car was shod with Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 Connect boots. The other asterisk concerns the tires, which are not the same black circles your standard Type R leaves the showroom wearing. Related: The 2023 Honda Civic Type R Is The Fastest FWD Car On The Nurburgring But you Euro-readers needn’t start coming over all smug, because there’s more, or maybe we should say less. Most obviously, if you’re reading this in the U.S., you’ll have guessed that the record was set with a European-spec car whose KA 2.0-liter engine is rated at 325 hp (330 PS) whereas the North American version of the same car claims 315 hp (319 PS). The FL5’s time was slower than the record set by its FK8 predecessor in 2017, but the FL5 was running the newer, longer, 12.9-mile (20.8 km) course, whereas the FK8 was timed on the older 12.8-mile (20.6 km) configuration of the track.īut we’ve discovered that the record-setting Civic isn’t the same as the 2023 Civic Type R you can buy at your local Honda dealership. The new FL5 Civic Type R ripped through the ’Ring’s 150+ corners in 7 min 44.881 seconds, taking half a second out of the 7 min 45.389 second time set by the Renault Megane RS Trophy-R in 2019. ![]()
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