Officially Revealed: 2017 Honda Civic Type R with 306 hp / 295 lb-ft

All-Knowing · Mar 29, 2017

Tire pressure specifications: 35psi front
33 psi rear

Evo · Mar 29, 2017

All-Knowing said:
Tire pressure specifications: 35psi front
33 psi rear

Seems rather normal for such thin rubber

ZdH · Mar 29, 2017

UberCivic said:
That's just down the road from me and I would be there if the Type R was there, but not going for some photo op with a self proclaimed Pro Youtuber.

Self proclaimed? Lol more like Humble, quit his job at a Honda dealer after 23 years to teach others about the products Honda sells, since most salesmen don't know much about whats on there lot. Honda loves it and now promotes him.
Hate or not thats not easy...

17CivicTypeR_Brian · Mar 29, 2017

All-Knowing said:
Tire pressure specifications: 35psi front
33 psi rear

Dude are you serious?! I honestly expected more like 45psi given the 30 profile. Oh well. I normally run max psi anyway for extra load capacity and mpg'!

Nemesis724 · Mar 29, 2017

My boss (dealership owner/dealership manager) walked inside the shop today

. He told me information that he got from the town hall meeting in DC. He said something like after the first shipment (first release) arrives, they will be producing like 300 units monthly for north america. Our dealer might be lucky to get 1 unit every 4-6 months he said. Anyway the big news is.... This came straight from his mouth..... Ladies and Gentlemen (in a Michael Buffer voice), the first date of sale for the R is June 15

. There you go I said it

.

CJ

metal_driver · Mar 29, 2017

Nemesis724 said:
My boss (dealership owner/dealership manager) walked inside the shop today . He told me information that he got from the town hall meeting in DC. He said something like after the first shipment (first release) arrives, they will be producing like 300 units monthly for north america. Our dealer might be lucky to get 1 unit every 4-6 months he said. Anyway the big news is.... This came straight from his mount..... Ladies and Gentlemen (in a Michael Buffer voice), the first date of sale for the R is June 15 . There you go I said it .

CJ

Thanks for the info

So that would mean about 3600 units per year for North America and it sounds like they may adjust that based on actual demand/sales. Seems reasonable. By comparison, I know that Ford cranked out a little over 4,500 GT500's per year from 2007 to 2014. Apparently there was not much more demand than that. Don't flame me as I realize its a completely different car... I'm sure others may have other examples to offer up..

17CivicTypeR_Brian · Mar 29, 2017

metal_driver said:
Thanks for the info

So that would mean about 3600 units per year for North America and it sounds like they may adjust that based on actual demand/sales. Seems reasonable. By comparison, I know that Ford cranked out a little over 4,500 GT500's per year from 2007 to 2014. Apparently there was not much more demand than that. Don't flame me as I realize its a completely different car... I'm sure others may have other examples to offer up..

I believe I've seen Focus RS demand at about 350/mo. They should sell year round at least with the AWD that some crave.
Anybody know STi take rate?

A2typeR · Mar 29, 2017

metal_driver said:
Thanks for the info

So that would mean about 3600 units per year for North America and it sounds like they may adjust that based on actual demand/sales. Seems reasonable. By comparison, I know that Ford cranked out a little over 4,500 GT500's per year from 2007 to 2014. Apparently there was not much more demand than that. Don't flame me as I realize its a completely different car... I'm sure others may have other examples to offer up..

Cool this exactly what I was anticipating...

June 15th seems like an eternity tho...

17CivicTypeR_Brian · Mar 30, 2017

A2typeR said:
Cool this exactly what I was anticipating...

June 15th seems like an eternity tho...

Mannnnn it's going to be hard to hold it together. I still don't have one nailed down because dealers won't take deposits. Hopefully that changes after NYIAS.

DGK · Mar 30, 2017

Nemesis724 said:
My boss (dealership owner/dealership manager) walked inside the shop today . He told me information that he got from the town hall meeting in DC. He said something like after the first shipment (first release) arrives, they will be producing like 300 units monthly for north america. Our dealer might be lucky to get 1 unit every 4-6 months he said. Anyway the big news is.... This came straight from his mouth..... Ladies and Gentlemen (in a Michael Buffer voice), the first date of sale for the R is June 15 . There you go I said it .

CJ

Not for nothing but I hope your wrong I was hoping to get mine after NY auto show like the end of April I'm so bummed now

17CivicTypeR_Brian · Mar 30, 2017

DGK said:
Not for nothing but I hope your wrong I was hoping to get mine after NY auto show like the end of April I'm so bummed now

I think if they were that close, they'd have to be showing up in the iN system by now. I also wouldn't be surprised to see something like this -

Honda Civic 10th gen Officially Revealed: 2017 Honda Civic Type R with 306 hp / 295 lb-ft upload_2017-3-30_8-11-44

All-Knowing · Mar 30, 2017

09CivicSiBrian said:
Dude are you serious?! I honestly expected more like 45psi given the 30 profile. Oh well. I normally run max psi anyway for extra load capacity and mpg'!

Above 220kph is more psi

JDhonda · Mar 30, 2017

Nemesis724 said:
My boss (dealership owner/dealership manager) walked inside the shop today . He told me information that he got from the town hall meeting in DC. He said something like after the first shipment (first release) arrives, they will be producing like 300 units monthly for north america. Our dealer might be lucky to get 1 unit every 4-6 months he said. Anyway the big news is.... This came straight from his mouth..... Ladies and Gentlemen (in a Michael Buffer voice), the first date of sale for the R is June 15 . There you go I said it .

CJ

This is very exciting news! thanks for the share of that info. I like how he used the term ' North America' and not just US. That includes us canadians hopefully in the initial launch I'm praying!!
So if we look at the time line, the NY show takes place almost exactly 60 days ahead of the first sale date. I'm guessing after the show, that is when the dealerships will finally be able to attach our deposits to an actual order for a Type R :spaz:

17CivicTypeR_Brian · Mar 30, 2017

I stuck this in another topic too...

Honda Civic 10th gen Officially Revealed: 2017 Honda Civic Type R with 306 hp / 295 lb-ft upload_2017-3-30_13-42-9

Thanks-
Brian

JDhonda · Mar 30, 2017

09CivicSiBrian said:
I stuck this in another topic too...

Thanks-
Brian

wow...that is not many at all. Limited isn't even the word.

More than likely Canada will be even less

Officially Revealed: 2017 Honda Civic Type R with 306 hp / 295 lb-ft

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