I read this today after searching for some info, some may have read this.
The 2015 Honda Civic Type-R will come to the market with 2-liter engine which will produce 300 horsepower. It will make the 2015 Civic fastest FWD on the road.
“We have an idea of the products our rivals are developing and regardless of what anyone else produces, our car will be the fastest front-wheel-drive model around the Nurburgring when it goes on sale,” Yasuhisa Arai said, president of the Honda Research Institute. “And we will do whatever we need to in order to make that happen.”
According to Honda, the Civic Type R will apply technologies developed while preparing for the World Touring Car Championship (WTCC). Given its WTCC roots, Honda has huge expectations of its 2015 or 2016 Civic Type R, as it also announced that it is aiming to make the Civic Type R the fastest front-wheel-drive car to ever lap the mighty Nürburgring.
Set for a 2015 launch, the new Civic Type-R is expected to get a mechanical limited slip differential and possibly rear-wheel steering. Honda presented its Precision All-Wheel steer during an event in Japan, a system that increases speed during cornering and turns the rear wheels inwards a little bit while under hard stopping to avoid weaving around.
Now that sounds like a fast hatch, let’s hope we can still afford it. Our other big complaint is that they took so long until they started working on the car. By comparison, VW only had a few months’ delay between the Golf VII and the GTI.
Honda announced that the Type R will be developed specifically for the European market and Honda’s UK division wants a starting price of 25,000 GBP, but it’s not certain if they will be able to pull this off.