During the press conference today gave Honda in Frankfurt , the Honda Motor Europe President Manabu Nishimae has confirmed that there will be a new Honda Civic Type-R and a motor mounted turbocharged 2 liters of at least 280 hp .
The Japanese automaker has also indicated that work hard to get your Type-R is the front wheel drive vehicle faster in Nurburgring Nordschleife . " We recently spent a week at Nürburgring doing extensive testing and we are on the right track. Weve already scored a near-record time "commented Nishimae himself.
The conference has released a video in which the Honda Pilot in the WTCC , Gabriele Tarquini , a thorough test mules of the future Honda Civic Type-R at the legendary German track. For now we can only hope, because at least you have a couple of years developing the model, which will arrive in 2015 .
This image is the result of hard work, and sophisticated computer graphics programs, but almost looks real. It is the vision of ATC -Design of what will be the next Honda Civic Type-R , based on the tenth generation Civic . has five doors as this model only be produced with five doors.
The objectives of this car Honda are ambitious: to be the front-wheel drive car at the Nürburgring faster and that means dethroning the Megane RS. With this aspect the truth I think would fit well with those intentions and 280 hp . The Civic wins quite so bad milk.
The render was done in six colors, so we can appreciate how would in each case. I would not mind being a millionaire and have one for each day of the week ... We will continue waiting for the Civic Type-R a couple of years more, whats left of development.
Image | ATC -Design