Brand new civic type R spotted today...

[duffer987]

If we had that in the UK, I would be hankering after one, SOOOOOOOO much nicer in every way than our nasty under-torqued uber-MPV.

Why can't they get 159 ft lbf out of the UK Type-R engine? It would destroy the competition in performance terms then, fit the LSD too FFS.

This seems to be a direct replacement for the Integra DC5, am I right? Or will there be an even better Japan only new Integra?

They've also announced a Mugen version of this Type-R as well (it looks at bit OTT) so right now they're keeping all the cool stuff for themselves They killed the RSX in North America last year, so if Honda kept the DC5 it'd only be in Japan, so I'm guessing you're probably not far off.