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Written by Stephen Dobie
There have been a lot of hot hatches getting attention at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Renault, Hyundai and Seat all want to take a swipe at the Honda Civic Type R, currently the feistiest front-driven hatchback on sale.Not to be outdone so early in the Civic"s life, Honda has fought back with this, the Civic Type R Customer Racing Study. Now, we immediately started daydreaming of a slightly costlier Type R that swapped the rear seats for a cage, the front seats for FIA-compliant harnesses buckets and the slick manual gearbox for a particularly violent sequential transmission. Of a one-make series that sounded like Darth Vadar stuck in a tumble drier and with flamboyant two-wheeling at every kerb.
Date written: 13 Sep 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 9167
There have been a lot of hot hatches getting attention at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Renault, Hyundai and Seat all want to take a swipe at the Honda Civic Type R, currently the feistiest front-driven hatchback on sale.Not to be outdone so early in the Civic"s life, Honda has fought back with this, the Civic Type R Customer Racing Study. Now, we immediately started daydreaming of a slightly costlier Type R that swapped the rear seats for a cage, the front seats for FIA-compliant harnesses buckets and the slick manual gearbox for a particularly violent sequential transmission. Of a one-make series that sounded like Darth Vadar stuck in a tumble drier and with flamboyant two-wheeling at every kerb.
Date written: 13 Sep 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 9167