N/​A Monster

Imag­ine it. A light 4 door 1240kg car, 4 cylin­ders, 177KW of power and one angry look­ing face. Nat­u­rally aspi­rated. Ohh and also did we men­tion nat­u­rally aspirated?

Enter the new UK built, JDM Spec MUGEN RR Civic Type R, com­ing to Aus­tralia with a N/​A engine so pow­er­ful it has the ADM spec WRX backed into a cor­ner with it’s 2.5L Boxer Turbo engine (169KW) and out­pow­ers the newly released stan­dard Type R with it’s 168KW.

MUGEN RR Type R CivicMUGEN RR Type R Civic

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The MUGEN option adds tonnes of alu­minium and car­bon to keep the weight down, sav­ing around 15kg over the stan­dard Type R (as if the Type R can even be called ‘stan­dard’) as well as sig­na­ture MUGEN styling cues, a 10mm lower ride height, light­weight black rims, dual exhaust and free flow induc­tion, Potenza RE070RR tyres, adjustable sports dampers, and a close ratio, 6 speed gear box. Phew! That’s before any word on the inte­rior, which we expect will be a level above the newly debuted Civic Type R hatch that just came to Australia.

Accord­ing to Honda, the Mugen RR will be hand built to order, and only a lim­ited run of 300 being slated for the Aus­tralian mar­ket, so this is a unique car in many ways.