disquieting-muse

Straight away you can feel that the Honda Civic Type R is a practical hot hatch. It is quite spacious, but has a fairly low driving position with simple instruments. Drive off down a poorly surfaced road, and you know this is a hot hatch the ride is hard. But you know that this is a quick car soon not surprising really, top speed is 146 mph, and the Civic Type R can accelerate to 60 mph in 6.6 seconds. That’s 0.4 seconds quicker than the turbocharged Golf GTI. Makes you wonder. I’m also wondering whether this unusual gear lever will work. Instead of poking up from a central tunnel, it’s high up on the boringly flat-faced center console which instead of going right down to the floor, hangs down from the fascia. It isn’t far away, but my first thought is that it was done to make the bog standard Civic look spacious, not to give sporty shifts. But I was wrong - the shifts are slick. And it’s all very civilized; quiet, with the engine comfortable right down below 2,000 rpm. This has always