Filmed: 2017 Civic Type R Exhaust Sounds (first production Type R in U.S.)

[NorthernEX-T]

Now I wonder if the driver had rev-matching enabled.

Rev matching can be turned off

Here’s an important one for all you heel and toe fanatics who might have gotten a little worried at the mention of the FK8’s new rev matching feature: you can turn it off. Not only that, but we’re told you can turn it off in each of the car’s three driving modes. It even saves it so when you restart the car it's still in whatever function you choose.

Hopefully that’s given you a little more to go on than the initial announcement. For the rest of the details, and what this crazed hot hatch is like to drive, we’ll have to wait until the summer.

- Hideki Kakinuma

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[SaiHayashi]

Rev matching can be turned off

Here’s an important one for all you heel and toe fanatics who might have gotten a little worried at the mention of the FK8’s new rev matching feature: you can turn it off. Not only that, but we’re told you can turn it off in each of the car’s three driving modes. It even saves it so when you restart the car it's still in whatever function you choose.

Hopefully that’s given you a little more to go on than the initial announcement. For the rest of the details, and what this crazed hot hatch is like to drive, we’ll have to wait until the summer.

- Hideki Kakinuma

Yes I know it can be turned off, hence just asking if he had it enabled from the instagram video.
I can hear down shifting but not no throttle blip like we do with manual rev-matching,
so either he had rev-matching on and it just magically worked or he simply didn't care about potential damage to the clutch.

 

[Xyrex]

Yes I know it can be turned off, hence just asking if he had it enabled from the instagram video.
I can hear down shifting but not no throttle blip like we do with manual rev-matching,
so either he had rev-matching on and it just magically worked or he simply didn't care about potential damage to the clutch.

Or he was floating gears.

 

[vader2k]

Incredible pics and video! Thanks for posting!!!

 

[shutupish]

When the honda dealer calls you to let u know the typeR is coming soon

 

[Snoopyslr]

I was thinking there would be an oil cooler or something with that hood scoop..... Nope. Just a pointless hood scoop.

Also, plastic covers on engine bays are always terrible... but that one is a special kind of awful.

 

[jpmelfi]

I was thinking there would be an oil cooler or something with that hood scoop..... Nope. Just a pointless hood scoop.

Also, plastic covers on engine bays are always terrible... but that one is a special kind of awful.

The Hood scoop is certainly not pointless.

The sheet metal at the back of the hood clearly does something. It's not just there just because. All engines nowadays hide everything, but I have to think that all black one won't be on the car. It will most likely be the red one from the Geneva motor show

 

[All-Knowing]

New video! https://instagram.com/p/BStOEqtBter/

 

[bobindy]

What in this small 18 second clip, and few pictures gives you the impression it's cheap....? That makes no sense to me

Or that it will cost 50k?

 

[NorthernEX-T]

New video! https://instagram.com/p/BStOEqtBter/

 

[All-Knowing]

New to me...

 

[NorthernEX-T]

I was thinking there would be an oil cooler or something with that hood scoop..... Nope. Just a pointless hood scoop.

Also, plastic covers on engine bays are always terrible... but that one is a special kind of awful.

This could be a definite plausible function of it said by a British chap.

"The bonnet scoop pulls air in to that aluminium channel on the underside, which directs it to holes in the top of the wing, these direct the air to the long black vents running down the wings in front of the doors--it's all part of the aero package and not anything to do with cooling or pulling in cold air for the engine."

 

[Snoopyslr]

This could be a definite plausible function of it said by a British chap.

"The bonnet scoop pulls air in to that aluminium channel on the underside, which directs it to holes in the top of the wing, these direct the air to the long black vents running down the wings in front of the doors--it's all part of the aero package and not anything to do with cooling or pulling in cold air for the engine."

I'd love to see wind tunnel data on that one. Very interesting.

 

[ayau]

Here's a visual interpretation of what @NorthernEX-T is referring to.

"The bonnet scoop pulls air in to that aluminium channel on the underside, which directs it to holes in the top of the wing, these direct the air to the long black vents running down the wings in front of the doors--it's all part of the aero package and not anything to do with cooling or pulling in cold air for the engine.""

I'm guessing that metal shield acts as a heatsink for the engine bay and cool air flows through it and vents out the front fenders.

Does anyone have pics or can confirm that the side vents have functional holes?

 

[NorthernEX-T]

@ayau yes 100% they do have holes, confirmed: