New Honda Civic Type R order book OPEN - Honda NSX order book CLOSED

The order book for the 2015 Honda Civic Type R is now open in the UK, and Honda announce that orders for the all new NSX are now closed.

New Honda Civic Type R order book OPEN

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It’s a game of two halves for Honda today; on the one hand, they’ve opened the order book for the all new Civic Type R, and on the other they’ve closed the order book for the all new Honda NSX.

A production preview of the new Civic Type R was revealed at the Paris Motor Show in September, and now UK buyers can stake their claim to what will be the most powerful Type R so far with a £5,000 deposit.

Designed and engineered for European drivers, the new Type R will be built in Swindon and arrive in Honda’s UK dealers next year and receive plenty of technology – including an ‘R’ button to dial everything up to the extreme – a purposeful bodykit and a 2.0 litre i-VTEC engine expected to deliver at least 278bhp, enough for a sub-6 second sprint to 62mph.

As the Type R order book opens, the order book for the new Honda NSX has closed, at least for the time being.

Honda has already received over 100 orders for the new NSX – despite details of its powertrain and final design not yet fully revealed – and the 100 plus orders they already have is likely to be at least a year’s allocation for the UK.