Driving Feel: 10/10Īs impressive as the Type R’s engine is, it isn’t even the best part of this car’s driving experience.
It has that determined fire that only an unbridled and questionably healthy thirst for vengeance can foster, and I am extremely here for it. It’s as if it grew up being picked on by bigger engines on the playground over being too small, secretly started practicing karate in its spare time, and is now ready to show everybody just how hard a four-cylinder can punch. Floor it from basically anywhere in the rev range, wait about a second for the turbo to prime, and the Type R takes off with a manic personality that’s extremely entertaining, hilariously aggressive, and almost savage. Sending 295 lb-ft of torque to the front wheels used to mean rampant torque steer – in other words, a tendency to pull violently to one side or the other under heavy acceleration – but Honda has engineered pretty much all of that out by way of a nifty dual-axis front suspension setup. There are subtle hints of the beloved VTEC wail of old, but it mostly sounds like a cow doing its best impression of a race car.Īll that’s forgiven, however, by how hard this turbocharged 2.0L pulls.
Power: 9/10īefore I start gushing about how awesome this car is to drive, let’s get one negative out of the way early: despite Honda’s active sound control piping in artificial vroom-vroom noises through the speakers and that Ferrari F40-like triple-exit exhaust, the Type R doesn’t sound all that great. So whether or not a car that looks as wild as the Civic Type R will be a good fit for your lifestyle and social circle is ultimately your call to make.
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And as much as we’d all like to claim to the contrary, the perception of others (whether that’s of potential employers, judgmental landlords, professional clients, dates, in-laws, or local radar-toting law enforcement) matters. Hell, my editors even put it on AutoTrader.ca’s list of the ugliest cars on the market. Granted, I may like the Type R’s styling, but I’m also acutely aware of how this car is perceived by most other members of the general public. Like a pair of limited-edition Jordans or the average G-Shock watch from Casio, elegance and subtlety aren’t really the aim here, and this big-winged, over-vented Honda is styled extremely appropriately – with an emphasis on the extreme. This might be a generational/cultural thing, but as an Asian male in his 20s who not-so-guiltily rewatches 2 Fast 2 Furious at least once a year, I honestly really like how the Civic Type R looks. My only real gripe? It won’t be around for me to drive again next year. Now in its fourth and final model year, I’m happy to report that the Type R’s manic front-drive charm hasn’t gotten old, because the 2021 Civic Type R remains one of the most fun cars I’ve driven all year. It received a mild refresh last year consisting of a larger grille and upgraded adaptive damping software, as well as tweaked bushings and ball joints. A miracle-working front axle, a bigger engine, big wheels, and what seems like the biggest of wings were slapped together to make one of the most revered front-wheel-drive cars ever produced. The redesigned – and really good – 2022 Civic may be the one Honda wants everybody to talk about, but before the outgoing version is gone forever we thought it would be fun to have one final go in the 2021 Honda Civic Type R.Īfter four years on the market, this car – dubbed the FK8, if you’re a Honda nerd – is a known commodity.
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