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Byron Mathioudakis

Contributing Journalist

18 min read

The last Civic Type R, the FK8, was all about obsessing over F words.

Fierce. Fast. Ferocious. Functional. ‘Fordable. Coming from Japan via England, it might have been lumbered with lager-lout looks, but Olympian-levels of athleticism forged a feisty modern masterpiece. 

There was nothing like it. Except of course, there is, thanks to the rebodied FL5 Type R.

Read the full Honda Civic Type R 2023 expert review.