The end of the Type R?
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bern

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1,397 posts

249 months

Saturday 2nd October 2010
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I've just had a letter come through the letter box from my local Honda dealer containing a brochure for the current Civic Type R (FD2?). It's full of suggestions that this will be the last Type R, such as on the front cover it says, "the end is near", and inside, "the last UK Civic Type R will roll off the production line in October 2010. But it doesn't have to end here. We have a unique opportunity for you to own one of the last Type R models", "the end of an era is approaching", "the end of Type R production", and "the Type R is leaving".

I really like my Type R cars and have previously owned a EP3 and a DC2, it would be a great shame if they are ending UK sales of them, even if the current one isn't quite as pure as some would like, myself included.

Has anybody else heard anything or is it just a marketing ploy to shift the last of the old stock? Although I am not aware of a new model Civic being launched.

Defcon5

6,465 posts

220 months

Saturday 2nd October 2010
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The engine has been binned due to emissions

The fatboy

277 posts

191 months

Saturday 2nd October 2010
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poor K20s

which generation do you guys like most?

EK9
EP3
FN2
FD2 (JDM)

ZOLLAR

19,920 posts

202 months

Saturday 2nd October 2010
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Defcon5 said:
The engine has been binned due to emissions
yes although honda are likely to carry on with the Type R just a different engine that meets emissions.


Leicesterdave

2,288 posts

209 months

Saturday 2nd October 2010
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This was plastered all over the net/news a few weeks back.

OllieWinchester

5,700 posts

221 months

Saturday 2nd October 2010
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The fatboy said:
which generation do you guys like most?
The breadvan one...cloud9

bern

Original Poster:

1,397 posts

249 months

Saturday 2nd October 2010
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Defcon5 said:
The engine has been binned due to emissions
Ahhhh I see. Any news on what they are going too replace it with?

As for my favourite one, of the ones I have driven it would have to be the DC2.

David87

7,019 posts

241 months

Saturday 2nd October 2010
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The JDM breadvan one with the LSD (and 220bhp?).

Pints

18,451 posts

223 months

Saturday 2nd October 2010
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bern said:
Ahhhh I see. Any news on what they are going too replace it with?
Probably with a few of these... wink

TheEnd

15,370 posts

217 months

Saturday 2nd October 2010
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They could replace it with one of these
http://www.powertoolsalesuk.com/m/Ingersoll-Rand/a...

224Nm Torque, and 10,000 RPM, and very clean emissions too

mattmoxon

5,026 posts

247 months

Saturday 2nd October 2010
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One of the guys at work said the 2.2d engine has also been binned due to emissions.