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Honda Civic Type R

Friday, Sep 19, 2025 12:00 PM

Last manual hot hatch standing revs up, ready to turn out the lights While it may only be coincidental, there’s due to be a quirk in the now regrettably well-defined lifecycle of the sixth-generation Honda Civic Type R that could prove comforting to those of us who remember its various predecessors.The UK market has traditionally loved hot hatchbacks, and the hot Civic has become one of our longer- serving and most consistently popular. The current one arrived in 2022, in the 25th anniversary year of the first Civic Type R: the 1.6-litre ‘EK9’. That Civic Type R was never officially imported to either the UK or Europe, however. It was only four years after the EK9 had been introduced in Japan – in 2001, when the EP3-generation Civic Type R car kicked off local Type R production in Swindon – that Brits had their defining Type R moment. And, neatly enough, it will be exactly 25 years since that moment, in 2026, when the current-generation car is finally withdrawn from UK showrooms, never to return. Cue the mood music, then. Honda introduced its tribute to the car earlier this year: a 40-off, limited-run Civic Type R Ultimate Edition with black roof, red decals and extra helpings of carbonfibre. Ten will come to the UK – and all are now sold. Now it’s time for Autocar’s tribute: a six-page road test, with the full gamut of performance figures, on a generation of this venerated fast front-driver that has somehow escaped the scrutiny of our timing gear thus far.

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