Honda Civic Type R: 18.11.13, Tochigi, Japan Honda's 300bhp hot hatch certainly gets your attention in prototype form

摘要

EVERY ENGINEER WORKING on the dynamics of the new Honda Civic Type Ris focused on one target above all others: a Nurburgring lap time of below eight minutes. If it does so, that would make it the fastest production hatch to tackle the Green Hell by at least eight seconds. Ask if it has done so already and its chief engineer, Suehiro Hasshi, will say: "I am not allowed to tell you that, but you can use your imagination." So it has. This would make this Civic hatchback approximately as fast as the quickest car that Honda has ever run around the 'Ring, the fabled NSX-R.