Honda Automobile (Thailand) Co., Ltd has announced that it has begun production of the 2016 Honda Civic’s 1.8 litre SOHC i-VTEC and 1.5 litre turbocharged engines at its plant in Rojana Industrial Park, Prachinburi.
The tenth-generation Civic will be the first model to be manufactured at the new plant, with car production scheduled to start within this March, around the same time the model makes its official launch debut in the Land of Smiles.
The engines will be assembled at the plant’s engine production line, which is the second line to come online at the new plant after the Polymer Injection line began operations back in October 2015. It will be responsible for manufacturing various engine components, including cylinder blocks, cylinder heads, connecting rods and crankshafts.
The Thai-spec 2016 Honda Civic engine line-up consists of a 1.8 litre SOHC i-VTEC four-cylinder unit developing 139 hp and 174 Nm of torque, and a new 1.5 litre turbocharged four-pot rated at 173 hp at 5,500 rpm and 220 Nm of torque from 1,700 to 5,500 rpm. A CVT gearbox is mated to both engines.
In the future, the engine production line will produce both complete engines and engine parts, to be exported to other Honda automobile assembly plants in the Asia and Oceania region.
Pitak Pruittisarikorn, COO of Honda Automobile (Thailand) Co., Ltd., said, “the new Prachinburi plant is a key move taken by Honda to expand our automobile production in Thailand with an aim to be a strategic export hub for the world.
“A new Prachinburi plant will support our manufacturing and export operations currently done by the Thai production base in Ayutthaya to meet a growing customers’ demands worldwide in the future. The start of the Prachinburi plant and the Civic production kick-off will mark a milestone of Honda’s operation in Thailand,” he added.
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Honda Malaysia, what r u still waiting for?
Accordana is coming, even in different segment (amongst same price range) DRB hicom has no “guts” to worsen Proton sales target ! HONDA civic fans can wait la… AP Cronies of doing businesses.
Every soon will see turbocharged Civic breakdown
You won’t go wrong with sushi car, I said so many times. But looking to reliable, ppl will prefer our Corolla.
Car for budak baru nak up.
Another news how much we lost to Thailand. In the 90s, Malaysia was heading to be the Detroit of Asia. then Malaysia started their Ketuanan issues. Jepun and Mat Salleh packed up their bags and moved to Thailand.
From 1990 till now, we lost about RM1 trillion in investments and few hundred thousand jobs lost to Thailand.
‘bolehland’can wait..
And someone said that there will be no VTEC Turbo powerplant for ASEAN market.
Later Vtek bocor
Lain p1 ka? Ekekek
Is the 1.8L engine still the R18A used by the FD1 civics since 2006 till today ??? Come on Honda, that engine is so old already. 10 years in Malaysia at least.
from 2012
R18A used in civic since 2006.
K20Z3 still used for 2.0
only in 2012 civic use R20A
OMG…Nvm, maybe Honda will have both 1.8 / 2.0 and 1.5Turbo in here, so ppl can choose based on their budget.
hahaha, malaysian honda always get screwed….
I will wait for Proton 1.5 TurboGDi 250NM by Proton+Lotus+Ricardo UK
Malaysians refuse to do 3D work.
Bring back the temperature gauge for the City. You don’t save much by omitting the temperature gauge. We feel annoyed by the green and red lights which only lighted up when there is a problem. Not very comforting.
It’s actually blue and red light (for temp. gauge). Anyway, temperature gauge level is very useful in daily driving because we need to make sure water temperature remain at optimum level (slightly below half mark, just momentary look at it) and in case if engine overheated (other than gauge level rise to nearly red zone, it can also based on loud pinging sound, loss of power and/or a/c suddenly not cold anymore due to cutoff of compressor), there should be enough time to stop their car. Even Myvi also got this gauge (at right side of the meter panel).
My money is ready for the Civic Turbo. Come on Honda Malaysia, bring it in soon!
Sure or not. I think the 1.8L will be priced below 123k. The more expensive 1.5L should be more than 135k.
Already using Civic FD2 2011. Changing it to this bad boy
OMG…ME TOO.but make sure no faulty engine as happened in US.
The faulty engine is the 2.0 version. Not the 1.8 or 1.5 Turbo. Should be fine for Malaysia Civic
Booked already…counting days.heheh..
Coming, coming Prachinburi best ever Honda plant sure will be glad to deliver, first worlwide delivery soon from Land of smile, see it in person this coming Bangkok motor show, a new beutiful civic
I will probably fly over to Bangkok in April to test drive the car instead of waiting for it to arrive in Msia.
Will Honda Malaysia even CKD it here ? Sales of the last gen Civic have been terrible (deservedly so). HMSB may well import the new Civic directly from Thailand (CBU). Even TCM Nissan has not CKD-ed the new Sylphy, but they did CKD the older Sylphy, and like the old Civic, it didn’t sell very well.
Oddly enough, UMWT’s CBU Corolla Altis is outselling the CKD Camry. In the past, the Camry usually outsold the Altis. Poor UMWT loses money on both their CKD Camry project and are forced to raise prices higher than necessary to cover for their CBU Altis. But this is what you get when you continue to ignore the public demand for higher safety standards, karma will come for you. Until today, you can masuk DRL in your Vios, but not ESC ? Expect Honda Malaysia to lead the non-national pack again in 2016.