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HONDA CIVIC TYPE R
BBC Top Gear UK
|August 2025
£51,905 OTR/£52,605 as tested/£777 pcm WHY IT'S HERE: To find out if any front drive hot hatch can be worth £51,905
IS THERE ANYTHING I DON'T LIKE about the Civic Type R? Well, if you store a water bottle in the cupholders on the centre console it hampers your gearshifts. Annoying but not heinously so. Then there's the fact you can't turn off the speed limit warning chime if you overshoot a limit. Obviously, I never do this, but I suspect it could be infuriating.
This story is from the August 2025 edition of BBC Top Gear UK.
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