Disclosure: Honda Cars Philippines Inc. kindly lent me a 2023 Honda Civic Type R FL5 for nine days. It arrived with a full tank of fuel and loaded RFID cards. AutoFun Philippines paid for additional fuel, toll, and a carwash. The word “legend” gets thrown around an awful lot nowadays. Social media is awash with so-called legends, supposedly because they achieved some incredible metric online (a gazillion followers/subscribers) or for some insane (and often extremely dangerous) act. A little etym

AutoFun Philippines has extensively covered the depths that dealers and resellers would go to make big bucks off a hot, new car. Irate buyers of the recently launched Honda Civic Type R FL5 approached us after Honda Cars Philippines dealers were reportedly asking for up to ₱800,000 over the car’s ₱3,880,000 price tag. Some dealers were even disallowing straight-cash purchases and pushing for financing packages with huge interest, which the Department of Trade and Industry is punishable with jail

Honda Cars dealerships in Japan are no longer accept orders for the 2023 Honda Civic Type R FL5 because of issues with production and limited unit allocation. Honda Motor in Japan has also released an official announcement informing its customers that it has suspended orders for the Civic Type R to allow the company to fulfill existing orders. However, it is essential to note that this suspension is only temporary. The Japanese automaker also said it is difficult to forecast its production numbe

Price-gouging has long been an illicit practice in the local car industry, particularly at new-car dealerships. It refers to dealers asking for more money on top of a new car’s list price, which already includes a profit margin. This happens most often with models that have very high demand. The added charges are imposed either by forcing the buyer to take a financing program – where the buyer can get the car immediately at the cost of high monthly payments, which the dealer gets a cut of – or t

The 2024 SUPER GT season will welcome a new entry from Honda in the form of its new GT500 Honda Civic Type R-GT Concept race car. This race-ready hatchback will replace the existing Honda NST-GT Type S as the brand’s offering in Japan's premier sports car racing category. The Type R racecar was unveiled at the 2023 Tokyo Auto Salon with Honda Racing Corporation president Koji Watanabe present to give out the announcement. It also won the Tokyo International Custom Car Contest 2023 Concept Car Ca

Dongfeng Honda could CKD the 2022 Civic Type R in China The hot hatch is said to launch in China in September Which other country will manufacture the Civic Type R? The all-new 2022 Honda Civic Sort R is nearly upon us, but with the closure of Honda's Swindon plant within the UK, it remains to be seen which plant will fabricate the all-new demonstrate. While we wait for Honda to make that announcement, a report out of China claimed that China will be locally-assembling (CKD) the hot hatch. The p