Car insurance: British-Built Type R Exported to Japan

Saturday, 07 November 2009

Sales of the British-built, three-door Honda Civic Type R have begun in Japan, after the first cars were shipped from Southampton last month, car insurance customers may be interested to hear.

The demand for the UK-produced car in Honda's domestic market is a real feather in the cap for workers at Honda's Swindon factory - the only production facility in the world that builds the Civic Type R three-door.

Though the three and five-door Civic body styles were originally conceived as Europe only models, the combination of a 201PS i-VTEC engine, tenacious grip and radical styling has seen a flood of requests from Honda fans across the globe.

The export of the Type R model marks the second time since 2001 that the European-built Civic has been sold in the Japanese home market. Just 2,010 of these Milano Red, Alabaster Silver or Championship White machines, will be available to Honda enthusiasts in Japan.

Posted by Claire Carter

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