Top Gear Magazine First Drive - 2015 Honda Civic Type R

[Mook]

First drive: 2015 Honda Civic Type R - BBC Top Gear

What's the verdict, then?

I have reservations over the Civic Type R's image and appearance, and Honda's taken an unashamedly hardcore tack with it. But it's genuinely exciting to drive, massively fast and relaxes far better than the bodywork suggests.

It's very different to a Golf R, but effectively carves its own niche in the hot hatch class - there's nothing else quite like it except the Megane, and I'd have it over the Renault. I think. Anyway, the more I drove it the more I liked it. I ended up liking it a lot.

Specs

2.0-litre 4cyl turbo, 306bhp @ 6500rpm, 295lb ft @ 2500rpm, 0-62mph in 5.7secs, 167mph max, 38.7mpg, 170g/km CO2, 1378kg

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[Mook]

This is a fun little bit -

Yep, the same adaptive damping tech as used in the Audi R8, Ferrari 458 and Corvette Stingray. It's the best system out there, and in the Civic firms the dampers up by 30 per cent.

 

[The Bluegrass Nomad]

306 hp and 0-62 in 5.7....... ouch

 

[Mook]

Ya, that 0-60 is pretty......whats the word Im looking for..........pathetic, yes, thats it.

 

[YoushallgoFo]

would be cool if I didn't have to be seen in it.

 

[10sec]

From this to that...

It's like they wanted some kind of flying machine and ended up with the new Civic design. I mean, look at it, it's heedeous. There's just too much going on for it to just be a Civic.

 

[Gone_2022]

Ya, that 0-60 is pretty......whats the word Im looking for..........pathetic, yes, thats it.

FWD, 300 plus horsepower. Needs drag radials

 

[rz79]

FWD, 300 plus horsepower. Needs drag radials

...and AWD.

 

[TonzKnock-G]

:jayz:

 

[Mike K]

Do the back doors open? Who would want to be seen in this thing? That and more on KTLA news at 10.

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

is this going to be on the U.S. market? Way too aggressively styled IMO.

 

[Mook]

We're getting a type r (supposedly) and that motor but I guarantee it wont be that.

 

[Shadow99]

So much going on with it on the outside...

 

[Euro]

So ugly.

 

[big_shmoop]

would be cool if I didn't have to be seen in it.

And from the looks of that 0-62 time people will have plenty of time to see you too...

 

[GLIGTO]

Looks kind of like a riced out Chevy Volt lol. Pretty sure my stock turbo 11yr old turd VW can do better than 5.7 to 60 as well...

 

[nytebyte]

Fugly just doesn't quite say it.

Also FWD FTL.

 

[Euro]

Looks kind of like a riced out Chevy Volt lol.

I thought the same thing

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Burn it with fire! Looks like shit regardless if it has a decent engine and suspension.....oh and FailWD

 

[sickmint79]

this car is not for me.

but the ring time it's apparently capable of is nothing to scoff at.