Michael & Yuhui – Our Life Journey

Honda Civic Type R hatchback in Singapore!

My dad is a huge fan of Honda cars and I remember fondly his last manual transmission Honda Civic SiR that I used to drive to NTU. So when the new Civic Type R hatchback got to our shores at Kah Motor’s Ubi Showroom, we headed down on Sunday to get a good look. After watching it on an episode on the recent Fifth Gear where James Toseland and Tiff Needell raced around a track with a Honda Fireblade CBR 1000RR, you would also be wondering what the car looks like in real life!

We had already seen the Civic Type R sedan and we both agreed that whilst it look great, it just had a much more powerful engine compared to the normal sedan. There was no huge styling differences that set it apart from the norm. Th UK made Type R however looks totally different from any Civic on the market now. It definitely wins you over with its agressive lines down the side and incredible looking triangular exhausts. Annoyingly, Kah Motor didn’t allow us to get into the interior citing dangers with children releasing the handbrake and causing a danger.

I did a quick look through the net for print reviews (watching it in action is much better though) and found some interesting opinons:

http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/driving/jeremy_clarkson/article1839477.ece

http://www.rsportscars.com/eng/cars/civic_type-r.asp

Well, at its current price of SG$106,000, this is a car both Yh and I agree shall remain just a great car to look at