Not content with only offering the UK-market a diluted Civic Type-R, the hotter Japanese-spec car is about to spawn a track special for the Type-R one-make racing series. The car is the replacement for the Integra, which has been the Type-R championship car of choice for the past seven years.
Based on the saloon-bodied Japanese model which we only see in the UK as a hybrid, the standard car’s 223 BHP KA20 engine and 6-speed ’box are carried over, but the helical LSD, air-con, seats, interior trim, underseal and HID lights are all junked to save precious kilos.
With all the superfluous luxury kit sent to the skip the car is on sale for the bargain price of 1,690,500Yen – that’s just £7,378 of your English pounds. Just don’t forget to add on the cost of race-prepping the car, the entry fee, and a fair few flights out to the land of the rising sun into the bargain.