![]() ![]() Yes, there’s added road and tire noise as a result, but it’s much less of a negative in this car, where you want to feel at one with the road. ![]() For example, 28 pounds of sound deadening material is removed, amplifying the engine and exhaust noise inside the cabin over that of a regular Type R. ![]() The Type R Limited Edition keeps most creature comforts, while chopping weight (50 pounds total) in places that enhance the driving experience. This just made the car annoying to live with on a daily basis, and the performance advantage over the M4 Competition was negligible. ![]() BMW eliminated vital parts like the armrests and traditional door pulls in search of weight savings. The idea is to take an already-superb performance car, then make it even more extreme. It builds on the refreshed and improved 2020-model-year car, making this version the most focused and dialed-in Type R of the bunch. Honda made this Limited Edition model - only 600 examples will be sold in the United States - as a sendoff to the 10th-generation Civic Type R. Limit the choice to cars under $50,000, and it wins without breaking a sweat. Short of near-six-digit sports cars and even more expensive supercars, there’s no performance car out there that is more fun to drive than this screaming yellow Honda hatchback. Sure, with no infotainment whatsoever you’ll have to be comfortable with simply your own thoughts on a long journey, but the lack of sound-proofing isn’t overly obvious even on the motorway and the car’s ride quality remains fluid and beautifully controlled, if on the firm side.If I had to buy a new car today, this 2021 Honda Civic Type R Limited Edition would be the one in my driveway. The turbocharged four-pot isn’t as smooth as a Golf GTI’s, but it loves to rev and of course, it's connected to a gearbox that’s so rewarding to use we could fill the rest of this review with superlatives on it alone.įor all of its more hardcore persona there’s also very little compromise on the road required over the GT version. It’s just that bit feistier to accelerate, that much more alert on direction change it positively fizzes with energy, which immediately ratchets up the excitement level behind the wheel. The weight loss may look relatively minimal on paper, but as a percentage of the total it’s well worth having, and sure enough, the additional keenness of the Limited over the regular Type R is immediately obvious. Honda has remained coy on what chassis changes have taken place, remarking only that the steering has been ‘revised’ and that the adaptive damping has the ability to, err, ‘adapt’ to the different weight of the car. Forged BBS wheels are both stronger, but also 10kg lighter for the set, and are now shod with Michelin’s Cup 2 tyre instead of the standard and GT models’ Continentals. A further 10.4kg is lost through omitting the air conditioning system, and another 5kg from there being no infotainment setup – including no audio whatsoever. Some 14kg is from removing sound deadening material in places like the roof and behind the dashboard, plus various plastic trims like the spare wheel housing lid. Honda has managed to shave 47kg from the overall weight of the car – when compared to the GT model, that is. The LE’s maximum speed of 169mph is identical to the standard model, GT and Sport Line models, but the 0-62mph time drops by a single tenth to 5.7sec, presumably due to the weight loss. There are no changes to the specification of the revised Civic Type R powertrain, but at 316bhp and with arguably the finest six-speed manual box on sale, neither are there any complaints from us. ![]()
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