2012 Honda Civic Sedan and Coupe

[shadow]

^spy na spy ah...nagtago ka pa yata sa likod ng puno eh...

[mda]

Yep, that's an 8th gen, pero US variant.

[LNopal]

Honda Civic Enters FIA World Touring Car Championship

Date: February 03, 2012 07:29
Source: Honda EU Press Release




Honda today announced that the Honda Civic will race in the FIA World Touring Car Championship (WTCC).

"We have made a decision" said Honda CEO, Takanobu Ito "to enter into the WTCC with the European Civic. We will develop a totally new engine for this project and we are all excited about starting this new challenge."

For this project, Honda has formed a joint partnership with Mugen and J.A.S. Motorsport. Mugen will manufacture a bespoke racing engine developed by Honda R&D and will maintain the engine in every race along with the team. J.A.S. Motorsport will develop the race car, using the new Honda Civic 5door produced in Honda's manufacturing plant located in Swindon (UK).

The racing engine is a 1.6 litre 4 cylinder direct injection turbo-charged petrol engine, developed in accordance with FIA's Super 2000 regulations.

Honda's ambition is to join the WTCC as early as this season, with a string of "inaugural rounds". Discussions are currently being held with the FIA, but these rounds would include Japan (held on 21 October 2012 at Honda's Suzuka circuit), followed by China and Macau. Honda will then enter a two car team, managed by J.A.S. Motorsport, into every race in the 2013 championship season.

Racing has always been a fundamental element of Honda's DNA . In the late 1950s Honda first entered the Isle of man T.T and then Formula 1 in the 1960s. The FIA WTCC is the next chapter in Honda's on-going commitment to world motor sport and provides a perfect platform to demonstrate its racing spirit to Honda's numerous fans around the world.

ENDS


Editors Notes:



About WTCC

WTCC is the FIA World Touring Car Championship.

Vehicle specification is strictly regulated by FIA Super 2000 category

All vehicles who compete in the championship are based on mass production cars with more than than 4 seats.

The championship is reserved for cars powered by a 1.6 litre petrol engine, turbo-charged with direct injection.

The distance of each race varies between 50 km and 60km

The full racing season covers 12 racing weekends (two races per weekend)

More information can be found at WTCC - Fia World Touring Car Championship


About Mugen

Mugen is a brand of M-TEC Co., Ltd. a company based in Saitama (Japan) whose main motorsport activities are: designing, development, manufacturing and marketing of racing engines; parts and components for Honda cars and technical services at racing circuit.
M-TEC has subsidiaries in America (MUGEN America Inc. (U.S.A.)) and in Europe (MUGEN EURO Co., Limited (U.K.))

More information can be found at –³ŒÀ | MUGEN official web site


About J.A.S Motorsport

J.A.S Motorsport is a racing car builder and racing team founded in 1995 to compete mainly in touring car races. It became Honda's partner in 1997 as a works team in the Super Touring Car era (STW (Germany)) in 1998 &1999, BTCC (UK) in 2000 and has run Honda Racing Customer Support on behalf of Honda Motor Europe since 2001.

Located in Milan, Italy, J.A.S Headquarters and factory consists of a surface area of 2500 square meters.

J.A.S Motorsport's president is Maurizio Ambrogetti and Managing Director/Team Principal is Mr. Alessandro Mariani.

[dandave]

bring the civic diesel........

[greatauror28]

^spy na spy ah...nagtago ka pa yata sa likod ng puno eh...

Pauwi nako nyan eh, nadaanan ko lang..Along the sidewalk yan ng paseo de roxas.

[tsupermario]

hmm fd pa din yata yan, although yung usdm version

[shadow]

Honda city ba yan? City na lang bilhin meron pa extra pera

[kglzone]

I already have the honda city bro, I'm excited for the civic :D The look will grow on you :D Promise!

[xperiarc]

I saw a black one cruising near Honda's Assembly Plant here in Santa Rosa. Maybe it's an HCPI executive who's driving. I don't like it's design IMHO. Looks like the designers of the new Civic are just playing safe with it's design.

[Verbl Kint]

Still not a fan. I wonder if HCPI will actually run this model in the Philippines for more than a year,

[pop3corn]

I already have the honda city bro, I'm excited for the civic :D The look will grow on you :D Promise!

grow tired ... joke hehe

[jag001]

sir the reason why this civic is priced at 1.074MM is because its a limited edition model it truly is a Japan Domestic Model unit.. it has cruise control, rthe I mid system which is kinda like BMW's i-drive that controls most of the features of the car and also it has rear back up camera.. amongst other jdm only features.. those or some of the extra features will be omitted once the Phillipine domestic model comes out to bring the price down.. this is a temporary set up by honda so that until the are having difficulties with their thailand plant they will get their units from japan..

[xoids]

*bro ask ko lang kung official statement yan from the launch event? Base sa statement mo we can assume that they'll likely reduce the price too once thailand units take over the supply here in PH.

sir the reason why this civic is priced at 1.074MM is because its a limited edition model it truly is a Japan Domestic Model unit.. it has cruise control, rthe I mid system which is kinda like BMW's i-drive that controls most of the features of the car and also it has rear back up camera.. amongst other jdm only features.. those or some of the extra features will be omitted once the Phillipine domestic model comes out to bring the price down.. this is a temporary set up by honda so that until the are having difficulties with their thailand plant they will get their units from japan..

[xoids]

guys kung ung previous gen ung kunin ko how much usually ang discount?

[number001]

guys kung ung previous gen ung kunin ko how much usually ang discount?

Out of stock since December 2011 yung Civic FD. You have no choice but to get the 2012 if you still want a Civic.

[xoids]

Uh! Thanks bud!

Out of stock since December 2011 yung Civic FD. You have no choice but to get the 2012 if you still want a Civic.

[kglzone]

[xoids]

o please post some pics later :D

[shadow]

Tell Honda go shoved their civics up their asses...grabe pricing nila...mid sedan priced more than P1M? A car that you'll see everywhere few months from now..a car that will be as ordinary as cockroach...

[xoids]

Disappointed about the pricing.