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According to reports, the new generation of Civic Type R is expected to start delivery by the end of 2022, when it will be introduced into China in the form of CKD and put on the market. At the same time, more information has been released on the new car, which will be equipped with a 2.0T engine, a maximum power of 319 horsepower and a maximum torque of 420 Nm, an improvement compared with the previous generation, and detailed power parameters of the new car will be announced in the autumn of 2022. Honda said that the new generation of products optimize urban road conditions, the engine can get maximum torque at a relatively low speed range of 2600 to 4000rpm, and the new turbocharger optimizes turbine blades to generate more pressure and efficiency. In addition, the length and width of the new car have been lengthened.

Earlier, the new Honda Civic Type R was launched globally on July 21. After the launch, the new car will be the first to be sold in overseas markets, and Dongfeng Honda will introduce it to the domestic market in the form of CKD in December. With the global debut of the new car, a suspected new-generation Civic Type R purchase agreement has been exposed online, showing that the car's pre-sale price in the domestic market is 35-450000 yuan, and whether this is the case will need further official confirmation.

In terms of appearance, the new Honda Civic Type R is based on the eleventh generation Civic hatchback. Summing up the previous global debut pictures, the front face of the new car uses a large number of blackened honeycomb intake grille, the middle net is a diamond grid style, the left side is inlaid with the "TYPE R" logo, the middle is the classic red Honda LOGO design, the overall recognition is very high. The front lip of the new car is painted in black, and the front is surrounded by a large area of intake and heat dissipation opening, which is more avant-garde as a whole. On the side of the body, the new car uses larger five-spoke rims and red multi-piston brake calipers to increase the sense of movement of the new car. The front and rear wing plates of the new car are widened to make it wider, and the wheel distance of the body is further increased. To ensure the handling performance of the new car. In the rear part, the new car still uses a hatchback back-up cover and a huge tail wing design, the iconic large-size rear spoiler also appears in the new car, and the taillight design is consistent with the ordinary version of the car. The tail mark is also equipped with the "R" logo and the red "H" logo, which echoes with the front face. The rear enclosure of the new car uses a newly designed rear diffuser with a large and two small mid-set three-out exhaust layout.

In the interior part, the overall layout of the new car basically continues the design of the ordinary version, using black and red two-color interior design, full liquid crystal dashboard with TYPE R exclusive three-spoke multi-function steering wheel, suspension design of central control multimedia display screen and penetrating air conditioning outlet design on the center console, but in order to improve the vehicle recognition and sports atmosphere, the new car is also optimized in details. For example, the display of the dashboard is changed to a red light source, the "TYPE R" sign is placed in many places inside the car, and the red Honda LOGO on the steering wheel is very eye-catching.

According to previous reports from the automotive industry, this new generation of Civic Type R is its sixth iteration, which has gone through five iterations before. As one of Honda's most classic performance models, the Civic sold 173000 vehicles, 218000 vehicles, 244000 vehicles, 233000 vehicles and 159000 vehicles annually from 2017 to 2021, compared with 73482 vehicles in the first half of this year.

Reviewing the development of Civic Type R, the earliest can be traced back to 1997, when the first generation Civic Type R appeared on the market, and the second generation Civic Type R was released in 2001. It is also the first TYPE R model introduced to the European market, equipped with a 2.0L naturally aspirated four-cylinder engine.

Dongfeng Honda introduced CIVIC into domestic production and sales and named it "Civic" in Chinese in April 2006. since then, its sales have been firmly in the forefront of the domestic car list; the third generation Civic TYPE R was launched in 2007, which is different from the previous two generations in that this generation of Civic TYPE R is divided into a hatchback Civic (code name FD2) and an European version of the hatchback Civic (code FN2).

In 2015, the fourth-generation Honda Civic TYPE R launched for the first time with a 2.0T turbocharged four-cylinder engine with a maximum power of 310hp and a maximum torque of 400Nm; the fifth-generation Honda Civic TYPE R, which was launched in 2017, is based on a hatchback Honda Civic and is equipped with a 2.0T turbocharged four-cylinder engine with a maximum power of 320hp and a six-speed manual transmission. According to the intergenerational relationship of the Honda family, the new Honda Civic Type R will be the sixth generation.

From the perspective of the current market development, the new generation of models will compete with Golf R, GR Yaris, Subaru WRX STI, Fox RS and other models after launch, of course, especially at present, the price and power parameters of the new car are not very clear, whether this is the case in the end will need more official information to verify. If nothing happens, the new Civic TYPE R will be Honda's last pure fuel TYPE R model, and the introduction of Dongfeng Honda may inject new vitality into sales.

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