When we think of current sports compacts, three aspects come to mind: expensive, with little personality and three or four-cylinder engines. Gone are those times when the six-cylinder dominated the segment and, although they will not return, at least cars like the new Honda Civic Type R give us hope, a model that shows us its hypnotic gestation process as a warning: and is that the Japanese is preparing to be the new king of compact sports.
This is what it anticipates with its production already underway, which is one of the few that Honda maintains entirely in Japan, allowing many of its models to be manufactured in other areas of the world. Be that as it may, the new Type R is developed in its homeland, although not all the process is carried out in the same plant.
This is the birth of the Honda Civic Type R, which wants to be the new king of the compact
And it is that while a large part of the assembly work is carried out in the factory that the firm has in Saitama, the engine and transmission are born in other facilities. Specifically, the heart of the Civic Type R takes shape at the Suzuka factory next to the gearbox, but these are not joined until they arrive at the Ogawa plant.
To all this we must add a more or less handmade manufacturing process, something unusual these days and less with a production car such as the Japanese compact. However, much of the work is done by hand by Honda workers, who like other manufacturers make use of machines and robots for more tedious tasks.
Be that as it may, the high point of this is that the new Honda Civic Type R with its 320 hp four-cylinder and six-speed manual gearbox is ready to tackle the market. Now, its price remains to be defined.crucial data to know if it is positioned on a par with rivals like the Golf R or if it stays one step below to completely destroy sales.
