Many ideas happen to you when you are in the wonderful FL5 company that is no less than that, most notably how little you see in the other direction. In fact, I can’t remember one in seven days. This is understandable given a badly amazing demand price: 51,905 pounds sterling is twice the cost of EP3 to average inflation. The same noticeable is the number of miles that the Honda car in the UK: approximately 14,000 in the last census. Which, for an example facing the media for the current model, is a large amount. It is supposed to come out a lot. This is also concept.
If we fully leave our own devices, FL5 is likely to be a visitor every two months for the pH office. In the same way that Autocar used to invite Caterham seven to the day of its annual processing every year as a type of plate cleaner, so the CIVIC SENSED type again and repeatedly to remind us of what the honest hot hatching feels. Not so long ago he had many prominent competitors to put them as a class leader; Now, only FOCUS ST repeat the ideal composition of the four -cylinder engine, the manual gearbox, and the front wheel engine. As we discovered this week, its production is done.
This position at the end of the road alone would guarantee FL5 a prominent place in our good books – and the characteristics of an invaluable car had been called in what appeared to be anywhere (as Toyota did with Gr Yaris), our respect and admiration would be the same. However, the fact that it not only belongs to the Red R of R of the broader R, but also one of the great hot hole strains – it was built in the United Kingdom for a long period of time – it gains it a kind of blurry affection that is usually dedicated to the final general appearance of national treasures. It is called a car to be grateful for it, not really starting to describe the legacy of clicking into this country.
Or, in fact, for several generations of car lovers. The presence of the model exceeds the availability of 25 years in the UK, although you barely need to be long to remember the wonderful reputation that EK9 has occupied from 6000 miles. Perhaps it was overwhelmed by the bustle of gray imports for all the things that the turbocharged and the car are completely shipped in the late 1990s, but Jordan’s limited Jordan left the impression of anyone lucky enough to sit in one-as it happened in the DC2 engine that looks like God Like, which also included the VTEC’D B-Series engine.
A clear appetite for all JDM things was rewarded in 2001 with baked EP3 at home. Certainly, it was not a hoax or light like EK9 (or just good like the version shipped to Japan), but it was manufactured in Swindon and thus to a large extent our rights. Make local production more affordable as well, and its strange appearance did not prevent buyers from launching themselves with GUSTO. Dealing with the development that exceeds the capabilities of the modest baking truck in the subsequent years, however, a lot can be tracked around the FL5 to EP3 and the type R scheme that helped in its position.
It was good enough that her successor justified or not, never came out of her shadow. The short-term FK2 fixed the main restrictions of the FN2 (insufficient energy) by clearing the newly introduced K-Series engine with a turbocharged charger. One imagines that Honda technicians do this with the revival of Princess Ann, which opens a residence, but, of course, this was the manufacture of systems in the modern era, as it combines sugar rush for VTEC cycles and the type of medium -range orientation expected by buyers in the real world. The new output, all 310HP of it, was on Honda’s money to receive it to FK8, the generation that finally got rid of the region’s civilian in favor of a global model for all.
Accordingly, although you will not know it from the huge rear wing or oral air sockets – Honda also tried to absorb the leading MK7 game lessons in the layer; The interior of Swoope and sticky gear is cleared, and it appears finally dedicated to adults. He also led this road, with a level of comfort and ease of use that no EP3 owner will recognize. But this class surface barely needs to be scratched for type R In fact, they were there all the time in micro -control weights, exciting seats, and the patience of the knee for any chance to get rid.
It was some achievements. The last FK8 was built in England, and the first to be officially available in North America. In the pursuit of the globalization of the model, Honda may have chosen watering; Instead, the original domain width added the increase and the increase in the size is disabled, as the R-type R. Customers expect the R. It was not exaggerated in the complexity of things as well, and it succeeded as the fourth-generation Megane RS failed, which was also launched in 2017. FK8 did not need to direct the four wheels or a dual-clutch gearbox to support its pioneering position in reality, perhaps the denying in such things was possible Essential to its success.
Thus he went with FL5. Ostensibly, the car has become wider and longer, and because Honda assumes that the Americans want it, and more clearly to look – if you can contact something with three columns. Inside, it was more complete, as he kept its red seats for the model, but adding a level of the perceived quality so far has not yet been tried, and many of them are well made and cold. It was heavier than FK8, albeit only marginal. It was carried on the K20c1 block, if it was massaged for 330 hp, and strictly kept the six -speed evidence, and even an obsession even for Slicker transformations.
At that time, Honda stumbled with the detection as in the second coming of F40, instead of increasingly inserting a different hot opening – although we realized that the aura that now appears on the car, we may understand us. Now, after more than two years of the first leadership of the United Kingdom, the tempting eyes are closed at the moment when the driver’s door was closed and gave silently Honda for its signature – not to mention maintaining his place in a collection that tends to consider the excitement with the same appearance imposed that Nan may give to a pair of departments.
It should be noted that not all this pent -up estimate depends only on how to drive. There is a lot now apparently as if it were a bubble in the late twentieth century. After aspiring to the exact design of the previous golf, it appears that the CIVIC arrangement of physical switches is now flawed, and in a blatant contradiction with the disappointing MK8. The steering wheel is the perfect and covered circle in the cantara. What are the screens that do not look forward to being the center of your interest; This is the function of the gear lever in an ideal and meaningful position. The reversal of four inscriptions is mating.
Both work hard to be fun. Most hot gates tend these days, through any special error on their own (except for the desire to appear applicable), you tend to honestly make a convincing and unknown to the point that you feel as if anything less than an empty runway will allow you under the rubber skin. It is not civil. Most of all that is impressive on this topic – control surfaces, damping, and connectivity that he explained indefinitely with the road, the fun engine – is evident from the first to the latter, and at all speeds.
This was clear from the start, and it is not different from FK8. But with the lack of a roughly FWD competition, it is really difficult in 2025 not to lead FL5 like a middle -aged Tabti monk, almost harmful to some of the moderate bliss. Gochange is very satisfactory, very compatible ride, and the very tiny engine that does not overcome everything well – it is not easy to resist to ask yourself aloud why a few modern cars feel driving. Your sense of control, which is clearly enlarged by the guide but not limited to it, completely contradicts the flexible alternatives available elsewhere.
Among the hot gates, only Toyota Jero Yaris carries a candle on the ingenuity of the sharp mechanical civic, and its sincerity does not repeat the guidance of the guidance or the fluid trends that result from engaging with it. Even the accidental struggle with a lot of average torque is not a particularly noticeable problem; Most of the time, you will blame yourself for being clumsy or very used to flawless AWD systems. Ditto Apply R slightly excessive type R, which provides sufficient vertical hardening for you to start a gesture like a dog on the parcel shelf. So, moving away is the car at comfort, so it rarely needs additional rigor – so when you come to choose it, on intentionally, the eyes appear on the legs, the nods look appropriate. Likewise, a smile.
You will do so much. To the extent that you may not mind even when the expected fuel range decreases and ends up in gasoline stations when it appears to be once. Among the many things you like about it, the fact that FL5 converts the comfort of the modern hot hole on its head – you are completely Be able to I drive it everywhere like going to the stores, and thus drink the superior in a less aggressive way, but you do not do it, but you do not do it, but you do not do that never Perhaps the person who cherishes him, because he speaks to the era of Tyre-Sucrubing, supporting the clutch, pang, and the last back called alone. Yes, the current civil type R is very expensive. But not what it is. Insecure is a better description.
Specifications Honda Type R GT (FL5)
engine: 1,996Cc, four -cylinder turbo
Transition: Six -speed manual, front -wheel drive
Power (HP): 329 @ 6500 rounds per minute
Performing torque (l Libh): 310 @ 2,200-4000 rpm
0-62 miles per hour: 5.4sec
top gear: 170 miles per hour
weight: 1429 kg
Mila in the gallon: 34.4
CO2: 186 g/km
price: 51,905 pounds sterling