Quite a generation of cars that, and the Type R was arguably the pinnacle. The Volkswagen Golf R Mk7 arrived earlier and departed sooner. The 2021 Civic Type R Limited Edition will go on sale in the US this summer, and Honda will release official pricing information closer to that time. The Ford Focus RS was launched the year before the Type R, the Renault Megane RS was another 2017 debutant. Oh, only some of the best hot hatches we've ever known. An hour! This rather suggests you'll never pay less than forty grand for one when they re-emerge in the classifieds. The Limited Edition cost a smidge under £40,000 when it was launched, and the UK’s 20-car allocation sold out in an hour. You can read a standalone review of that car by clicking on these blue words. There were a few more options than before: the ‘regular’ car, pictured above, was bookended by a slightly more demure Type R Sport Line (much smaller rear wing, less red detailing, more sound deadening) and the considerably madder Type R Limited Edition (wearing committed Cup 2 tyres and weighing 47kg less than standard via forged BBS wheels, removal of the air con and stereo and less sound deadening). ![]() Something we never, ever thought the FK8 Type R lacked. There was a retune of how the adaptive damping behaved through a corner, for more precision. And that was just the tip of the iceberg of Honda’s forensic-level update behind those red-trimmed alloys lurked two-piece discs (rather than one) to take 15mm of ‘dead travel’ out of the brake pedal, which we’d wager no one had actually complained about.
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