Honda planning diesel-powered Civic Type-R

Posted Tue Oct 23 2007 8:48 AM by Siddharth Raja

Honda’s Civic range is currently available with a diesel engine in some markets, developing a reasonable 140hp and 340Nm of torque from its 2.2L of displacement, but rivals like the VW Golf, Renault Megane and Toyota Auris models are available with diesel mills with around 170hp. To catch up Honda is considering adding the more powerful 2.2L CTDi engine from the Accord range to the Civic hatch.

The carmaker’s top powertrain engineer Kenichi Nagahiro has revealed to Autocar that a diesel-powered Civic Type-R is on the cards. “As long as it is in keeping with the Type-R brand we will do it.” he told reporters, “high revving has to be part of it and that’s what we’re working on.”

For the Type-R engineers hope the engine will output close to 180hp and develop peak torque of approximately 430Nm.

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