Friday, August 31, 2012

Honda Thinking about a Small Civic Based CUV for terrain and for the racetrack

This is not for the North American Market....
Honda wants to make the 2013 VW Tiguan SUV with a variant of the Civic competition. Beginning in 2014, then in Europe, a new Civic Type R with turbo gasoline coming into the showrooms.
Honda is working on two new versions of the Civic. Already in 2013, a view on the basis of compact SUVs on the market. The as yet unnamed model is a whole size smaller than the familiar CR-V and is about the size of the VW Tiguan. The design, with large headlamps based on the revised Civic. New is a 1.6-liter diesel with 118 hp, which is to consume less than five liters per 100 kilometers. Later could also evolved from the Insight hybrid will be available. The Civic SUV will be offered with front-wheel and all-wheel drive and produced in England.
Honda wants to make next year the VW Tiguan SUV with a variant of the Civic competition. Beginning in 2014, then in Europe, a new Civic Type R with turbo gasoline coming into the showrooms.
Also in 2013, the new edition of the Civic Type R is launched. First Honda relies a turbo gasoline. In the predecessor, the Japanese had even set to a two-liter vacuum cleaner with high-revving 201 horsepower and - but the new standard of Euro did not make the fifth The new Turbo is slightly stronger than the old vacuum cleaner: It delivers 210 hp and thus exactly as much as the turbo also fired engine in the VW Golf GTI. With the new drive, the Japanese do the sprint from 0 to 100 km / h in 6.5 seconds and achieve 230 km / h top speed. Premiere for the Type R at the Tokyo Motor Show in November 2013. In Europe the sport Civic is then expected to be launched in early 2014.

Source;
http://www.autobild.de/artikel/honda-civic-neue-versionen-3572012.html  

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Why not the NA market? Guess Honda thinking the FIT CUV will be the product for NA. How about the STREAM?