2009 Honda Civic Mugen Type R CAR review

Posted on September 19, 2009
Filed Under Honda, News

Who is Mugen? I believe that the Civics are made by Honda …

Mugen is a conversion company and the engine manufacturer, specializing in Honda cars and bicycles. Although technically independent from the Honda, Soichiro Honda, the company set up by his son – and would do all of the F1 engine Jazz bodykits. Now the European arm has become a spin-off of this team last fall and the pumping of the UK built Civic Type r.

Looks standard, what is so Mugen Civic Type R special?

However, if fine-tuned. Front wings, bonnet and bumper, have been working with high-powered brakes and suspension and lift hot-cam engine power signals from the current forward-looking blood 198bhp to 237bhp on the rhythm of the screaming 8300rpm.

Internally, there is no cage but a warm bucket, filled with far less than the standard under the chair. Behind the jump seat, but the difference is Megane R26R, false bulkheads, means that you already have a normal startup, in order to prevent snooping expensive items (or just stay in your room on the way home grinding grocery store ).

Oh, no, this matter to go! This is not the Focus RS, but he was not turbo-charged, and half of the torque is never. But it’s much faster than the standard R-slightly flat feel, to about 6 seconds, we guess 60mph acceleration. The engine noise is just out of this world: an appropriate bladder cancer wail filled the cabin through the 5500rpm speed.

As more and more manufacturers to reduce turbine disappeared, the route 2.0-liter engine soundtrack and sharp throttle response is a perfect reminder of why a good naturally aspirated engine still needs some beating.

However, the Honda Civic Type R was never really went around an infinite straight line fast. Sticky Yokohama rubber, R-type of the optional limited-slip differential, and one hundred kilograms to lose weight (to save most of the abandoned house), I feel alive and the infinite on the track, the driver is more active than the road car and turned on the lack of The hate and brilliant body control.

Forget relaxation Focus RS, if you want to have a hatch trackdays, this is a current Megane R26R is not available. The way it is undeniable that the fierce, tramlines 4,9,16,17,20,24 a small, medium speed exhaust prosperity of the urgent need for sorting, but it is clear that the runway available and a brilliant fast smooth fun.

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