According to Jeff at TOV:
Some 10th-gen Civic news that TOVers should like to hear
Remember how before the 10th gen Civic launched, there was a 6MT 1.5T EX model listed in Honda's order system? Then suddenly that trim level disappeared, and indeed there was not a 6MT Civic 1.5T at launch time...
I can't really directly answer the questions as I was just quoting Jeff. Please head over at the original thread link to see what's being talked about. Shawn of Church Automotive is there and there's pretty interesting discussions. Most notably:
1.) Jeff did this in 87octane fuel. So hopefully...
Quoting Jeff in VTEC .net ...
Acceleration, "dyno" numbers. Civic 1.5T is AMAZING
Okay, so my dyno guy is apparently traveling out of town for a while or something has come up, as I have not been able to contact him for the past few weeks. That means I was unable to dyno test the 2016 civic...