New Civic Type-R

[luke313]

Read the last paragraph Marcos - It's states that the 5-door Civic will be unveiled 'next year and the type-r in mid-2006', so it must have been written last year? The article is old, guess Ford pulled the plug on the Focus Cosworth more recently...

[Marcos]

Read the last paragraph Marcos - It's states that the 5-door Civic will be unveiled 'next year and the type-r in mid-2006', so it must have been written last year? The article is old, guess Ford pulled the plug on the Focus Cosworth more recently...

Strange, i heard about the cosworth being scrapped before the RS hit the market, this article made me think they brought it back

[Konan555]

last I heard the next RS focus will be moved up in spec and an ST model will be similar to the RS ones that where built.

But who knows?

[Rave]

The Focus ST will be a five cylinder turbo with about 225bhp. It's in this week's Autocar.

[Konan555]

5 cylinder turbo? Is that pilfered from Volvo perchance? Or ground up?

[headbrace]

There was previously talk of the new Focus RS having somewhere in the region of 350 bhp from a volvo derived engine. Last I heard was that it was not a certainty for production, and it might now have been completely scrapped.

I have a feelig this may be the fabled "Focus Cossie"

[Rave]

Yeah it's the Volvo engine reworked a bit.

[[GSV]Trig]

The Focus ST will be a five cylinder turbo with about 225bhp. It's in this week's Autocar.

I'm guessing theres a lot of headroom in that then...

[5lab]

well seeing as that volvo engine is already put up to 260bhp in several volvos i'm pretty sure the 225 is a conservative estimate (that very engine has been doing 225 bhp since 93). its easy (chip) to tune up to over 300bhp, and some have been known with 4-500. put that thru the front wheels and this happens..

http://bond2caen.free.fr/Vid%e9os/overloaded850-T5.mpeg

ooooh

volvo are working on a 6 cylender replacement, pushing out 3-500bhp i believe. they already have the t6 (which is just an extension of the t5 - simply an extra cylendar bolted on), but this is apparently different..

this being the case, it would almost cirtainly not be called a 'focus cosworth' as i believe cossie are a separate company these days, and that name relates to thier engines (unless they did some work to the volvo engine to make it 'theirs'...)

[schrickvr6]

Audi own cosworth now....

[Vimeous]

Civic Type-R
Mid-2006. Cars initially built in Japan before production switches to the UK along with the rest of Civic 3 and 5drs which are being built from the start here in the UK.

Those I know who have seen the new car are very impressed, especially with the interior. The most recent spy-shots in Autocar (last week) give the most flattering view (imho) and show the rear to be much more steeply-raked that the current car.
In fact the whole car looks more solid and planted on the road than the current car which can look long-thin and a little unwieldy from some angles.

Fingers crossed our pool cars get replaced with the latest model upon release. If so I'll pass a proper verdict your way as soon as!

[badass]

Anyone got any news on the next Civic Type-R? Heard some rumours going round that its going to have a 2.4 litre injection engine, and that the Civic Sport will be getting the older Type-R engine.

Having seen the new Civic concepts, I am not really impressed.

Lol. Every single car on sale in Europe has a fuel injected engine.

[Konan555]

Pretty much every car since cats became manditory has had some form of fuel injection.

Some run a single point injector, some run banked and some run sequemtial. Then there's Direct to Cylinder injectoin systems cropping up.

An 'I' badge generally destingishes it as a performance injection system as opposed the the single point bare minimum.

[5lab]

Pretty much every car since cats became manditory has had some form of fuel injection.

Some run a single point injector, some run banked and some run sequemtial. Then there's Direct to Cylinder injectoin systems cropping up.

An 'I' badge generally destingishes it as a performance injection system as opposed the the single point bare minimum.

actually

i-vtec means vtec but with variable valve timeing (phase shifting) on the Intake side

[Konan555]

OK - I should've said "the i suffix on the majority of cars"

I did say generally.

The I-vtec's a direct inject is it not?

[Howard]

actually

i-vtec means vtec but with variable valve timeing (phase shifting) on the Intake side

He means for example 1.4i.

Yeah most cars after about 1991 have fuel injection