The impending demise of the FD2 Civic Type R is confirmed; Honda has announced that it will discontinue production of that manic machine after August 2010. However, Honda is out to sooth broken hearted Japanese enthusiasts with the 2010 model year Civic Type R Euro, which comes with mild exterior revisions and a “limited edition” tag.
The sharply styled three-door hatchback rolls off from Honda’s Swindon plant in the UK, which is the only factory in the world to build the car. The first FN Type R units boarded ships from Southampton in October 2009 to make the long trip to Japan. Since it went on sale in November last year, Honda has shifted over 1,850 units.
The company says that the CTR Euro has been “especially well-received by buyers in their thirties to forties, who value a sports car as part of an upscale lifestyle.” We can only presume that the buyer profile for the FD2R is younger and more “hardcore”, which can also be used to describe its uncompromising ride quality.
While similar in basic concept (howling high revving i-VTEC engine, slick six-speed manual, super grip), the European Civic Type R is not the car we know with a different skin. The 2.0-litre engine makes 198 bhp/193 Nm, less than the FD2R’s 221 bhp/215 Nm and the rear suspension is a torsion beam as opposed to double wishbones.
Local FD2R owners might want to hang on to their cars, which will very soon be “collector’s items”. The hatchback would be very expensive for Honda Malaysia to import, so this should be the last we’ll see of official Type Rs in Malaysia. It was fun while it lasted.
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wat’s the spec of this car?
So sad to hear this is true
sigh… Now the FD2R joins the legends of the past.. will there be a next Civic Type R?
sad … story.. :(
I’m going to register one for safekeeping! :)
this version is so gay…
101% in agreement!
but look at older version of ctr..all of them were hatch..until fd version. so this hacthback doesnt look tht bad. in fact ive seen in couple of times in fifth gear..handling kinda nippy since it’s small.
day after day…Honda and Toyota will be slowly become irrelevant…
Local FD2R owners might want to hang on to their cars, which will very soon be “collector’s items”.
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limited edition excidently happen.. “Rare” product
i toTaLLy agree..
i’m a serViCe adVisor @ a HonDa officiaL deaLer- n tdy i tolD a customer of a TyPe R bout tis news n he went BizaRk..!
he said tht mayB tis car remain in My fLy tiL my son is in his driVing staGe..!! ;p
i think your keyboard spoilt, better throw it away and get a new one.
hahahaha :-)
“collector’s item”.. I can see a problem with spare parts there. Imagine buying a ~RM200k car only to discover no spare parts for it.
ya la..since the production period is too short. hurmm..
impossible. i’m a parts controller at 1 of the honda dealer. as long as this car is selling at malaysia (now or before). parts will be available for sure. is just that maybe u have to wait for some time .
This euro civic looks sporty but a bit feminine… prefer the asian/us/aust civic …the type R looks more macho!..just my opinion
agree with u…
very disturbing news……
will it also come to m’sia?
Too bad. The K20A for FD2 has higher power than the Europe Type R (Japanese call it Euro R).
why not discontinue the Euro type R instead. Kah Motor imports it officially for singapore, and it is very ugly. the fd 2 is so much nicer looking. We need a Honda to be quintessentially Japanese, no designed by the Europeans. And worse was they should look at the waiting list malaysia and singapore has for the FD2 type R, it is worth even assembling here in malaysia. Very very bad move.
Paul wrote: “According to the report, the reason for discontinuing the product is a sluggish market for high performance gas-guzzling cars. ”
Honda is a company which want to earn money with it’s cars.
If the number of sold FD2 Civic Type R is too small, but the number of sold Civic Type R Euro is okay, why should they discontinue the Euro R?
Because the FD2 has nicer looks? If the waiting list is really that big, Honda surely wouldn’t stop production… ;)
Sad news indeed :( they have quite F1, not making the HSV010 a road legal car, no integra replacement, no perlude replacement, no s2000 replacement and discontinuing this? … Soichiro Honda once saids that “If Honda does not race, there is no Honda”… seems like there will be no more honda spirit anymore, they have fail him…
I think honda management decided its time to move to environmental friendly cars and no more sports performance cars from now on. More like a reason to make more money rather than following Sochiro’s foundation towards engineering n motorsport.
Sad to see this but good to see Akio Toyoda to make sports car back for toyota!
sob! sob! sob!
Honda move will make all tyre r FD2 owner feel disappointed. Unresponsible decision was make, like Boon Siew introduce the NSR150RR and Shadow 650, run out of spare parts.
What to do? Honda wanna hug trees now… not just honda, many other car manufacturers. The term ‘petrolhead’ will one day be replaced with ‘hybridhead’ or ‘electrichead’…
Cyclists call themselves “eco warrior” in UK. In Malaysia, motorbikers are called Mat Rempit lol.
they called mat rempit becos they terrorize the road and consisted only by one race.
a disgrace to human being, terrorizing the road and get smypathy from their same kind. shame shame shame.
Clearly you havnt been to Penang. They have Beng rempit and Macha Rempit as well. in my days, the kungfu decal on Honda EF and Suzuki RG are the most powerful modified machines on Seagate track, the wiralution with big bismillah always comes last.. But the most daring is the mat from kedah with the superman lambai. Wonder what happen to that guy.
since FD2R demise, look forward to toyota FT-86 rise of thorn
for your info, there is already more than 5 FN2R cars in malaysia which import by some car dealers. I saw 3 red and 1 blue at a car dealer shop near the damansara toll exit
Just came in a white FN2R, not bad…
No worry…Got CamtakPro Lotus Edition mah… ha ha
camtakpro ur head. NR3LE using cps engine, camtakpro only valid for campro kosong.
As long as FD2S in production, there will be no problem in spare parts i supposed… coz, the parts supposed to be common, except for the badge and performance kit…
And, why worry for spare parts?
Honda is RELIABLE isnt it? haha
yeah agreed..people buy H badge because its RELIABILITY..why worry about the spare parts..???
U sure H cars are is reliable?….mine was very bad plus few of my frens had soo many issue wt theirs
fd2r owners shud keep their stuff as most rarest in town (commonly in the world)..i think i msia officially not beyond than 400 units of fd2r rite?…the remaining at showroom shud be the hot pan cake!! cmon2 first come first serve basis…ROFL
The rear view is very poor in the hatchback Type R
Very nice look . just like sporty.
cheers
YAHOOO!!!! The end of a lousy, overpriced and overhyped Jap car!
Sad…but now i depends the next turbo hybrid Type R, The CRZ Type R? Sound Funny but i hope this will happen
Oh no……….!!!!
For all Malaysian Type R owners, all of you should unite and go over to the residence of Mr. Toru Takahashi, the present president and MD of Honda Malaysia, one weekend, to appeal to this gentleman to speak to his counterparts in Japan to stop production of UK Type R instead of Malaysian Type R and show him how much Malaysians just LOVE the champion white Type R. Haha, this will freak him out.. No, better still, all get together and parade somewhere, say Dataran Merdeka, but of course, get proper approval from authorities, I think DBKL and also Kementerian Penerangan something.. not sure.. just a wild thought.. also maybe at the same time to foster 1Malaysia Concept, that will be cool. I am so saddened (is this correct spelling?) by this cessation of Type R although i dont own one! Sigh…….. :(
bro, I think we are just a small fraction of purchase compare to other countries. I dont think they care bout this matter but i think the sales FD2Rs has reach its10k units. Neverknow, maybe we are in for a surprise from Honda. After all “Type R” is their flagship.
any CPS engined Proton car with higher cam setting (i mean higher cam than the Neo R3 Lotus, or the Neo R3 Lotus itself) oredy can tapau dis thing.
the most fakap Type-R ever, uses torsion-beam pulak tu.
Funny torsion beam on performance car…..neo suspension is better
even renault clio rs and megane use tosion beam. torsion beam is not an advance tech compared to what neo have…but we cant just look at it as ‘cheap’ setup anymore. furthermore..renault already won their f1 title..so their engineering tech cant be taken easily as..’tosion beam’.
LOL that what they told u at kakimotor huh. This is not as quick as FD2 but still would still easily pwn ur hi cam cps
not as quick as FD2R i mean
I was a privilege for me to able to bring this car back home for two weekends and my it was a joy to drive. It really is a stripped out Honda Civic that is designed to excel on the track with its slick rubbers. Unfortunately the car isn’t so good on normal public roads. It is such a shame that Honda decided not to build this car. If they do, all it needs is more torque by turbocharging it and more forgiving ride.
Becareful bro, now thief should be HUNTING FD2-R cars!!!! sure stripe off exp parts =(
You got that right, bro
Not an owner of FD2R but i feel very very sad! Because I like FD2R very much! No chance to get one in future. There are only 300+ FD2Rs in Malaysia so far if not mistaken.
TypeR just a god damn front wheel driven high rev machine from honda, I dun really bother much LOL… seriously, the real Fun is from a rear wheel or smart AWD machine, wake up people, Honda already did.
Golf GTi and Focus RS is front wheel too. Doubtful people cannot have real fun in these real McCoy.
grab one FD2R fast
Apasal mahal pulak nak bawa masuk Civic Type-R Europe? GBP sekarang murah!! lol jk jk.
But seriously, thanks to cheap GBP, Honda Malaysia should start ordering from Swindon now.
I visited London last year, the same cheese which costs RM5 there costs over RM20 at Cold Storage here… and it just keeps on rising!! Bloody bloodsucker betul…
Why travel that far? The same orange juice that I drink in Singapore cost SGD5.8 but it is RM23 here in Malaysia. And if you didn’t know… vegetables from Australia is cheaper than vegetables from Cameron Highlands in Singapore… one has to travel by air + insurance + in a cold room… so go figure :D
yeah!!!its ended!!!
At least on the road i won’t see those Ah Beng buys a rm111k normal civic then put a red badge and change exhaust sound(sound AWFUL after they modified it!) and claim it is a TYPE R!!!
Rejoice for REAL type R owner!!!
=)
Torsion Bar WTF
this is not a genuine driver’s car, and Honda is losing their ways… there are still loads of petrolheads out there, and the demise of the NSX, S2000, and now the REAL CTR, they are messing with its own heritage as builders of great driver’s cars.
All I can is: R.I.P FD2-R!!!! no wonder the Japanese ppl at Honda so generous letting their “baby” to be sold here in M’sia, (out of 100+) countries, izzit they want to get rid off the stock? I mean it sound strange, what makes M’sia so so special that we are the only country in this world able to enjoy FD2-R.
honda is doing what’s best to keep the company alive. i’m happy for that because it means that they will still be around and who knows, they may just revive the Type R in the future.
H should start making b16 engine again. small but powerful.
Good riddance to Type-R. Hondas sux anyway
it sucks cos its faster than your car and you cannot afford type r?
my car betters anytime than yours
FD2R is living legend…..
saw Honda FN type R in Bangsar.
Malaysian are rich.
Honda Malaysia already announced officially thru their website citing, moving forward for environmentally responsible cars. I will go vegetarian too, so that less methane gas in my pooh pooh!
i have seen this CTR Euro Edition… alot of demand here in malaysia…
why not just release a softer suspension setup for the fd2. CTR euro is just for posers. looks fast but isnt. and the torsion beam is just cutting cost and yet decreasing comfort and handling. considering its the same price as a gti.
with this move they better not ruin the honda accord euro.
for those still interested with the FD2R, let me know, there are still few more units available- BRAND NEW . email me..tks..
What is your email address?
can someone please hand me a tissue?
Yes… Finally… the stupid 4 door type-R stop production… we need a 2 door type-R…
damn!! the demise of type R really stabs me in the heart. Being a honda kaki myself for some time makes me realize how this engine betters than any other engine of the same cc. by all means even the b16s can smoke a Cooper S..hahah….those who criticize can only meant one thing, their cars are not as fast nor powerful compared with the hondas. B series are legend and so is the K series. Salute to the red emblem….sayonara…
Torsin beam and a watered down K20 ? That is not a real Type R…
is the discontinuation caused by low demand?
i mean seriously low…
but, not in mlaysia, we are a bit amazed by honda..
type R is not that GOD/GOOD in performance car class. no kidding. Hi Rev vtec is classic trick. nothing compared to golf gti, evo, suby. if u don pass vtec, u feel like driving a burden, camry can potong with no effort. handling also not up to performance car standard. torsion beam type R tested by drivers, they are not satisfied. the older Type R is better.
so, i think the reason of discontinuation is just CLEAR…look at the type R review in most review sites, then u know…