Over in Japan, the FL5 Civic Type R for the 2023 model year has gained a selection of accessories that include a carbon-fiber wing. This element shaves off a kilogram (make that 2.2 pounds) from the ...

The most powerful and quickest Civic Type R yet around a given racetrack, what Honda calls FL5 rolled out in 2022 for the 2023 model year. It's the first CTR since the FD2 to be made in the Japanese ...

Logic would dictate that the new, FL5-generation Honda Civic Type R would be quicker in a straight line than the four previous Civic Type R models sold in the UK. But is that actually true? To answer ...

Over the past couple of years, you’ve probably watched and read journalists and owners alike wax lyrical about the FL5-gen Civic Type R, with many proclaiming it to be the greatest hot hatch ever ...

Many thoughts occur to you when in the company of the decidedly wonderful FL5, most notably how few you see coming the other way. In fact, I can’t recall a single one in seven days. This is ...

Isaac Atienza is a Filipino motoring journalist who joined TopSpeed.com in 2021. He also owns a Filpino motoring website called Go Flat Out PH and is also a contributor to a local newspaper called The ...

The Japanese automaker's performance special no longer wears the crown among front-wheel-drive production cars.

For the last fifty years or so, ownership of a regular Honda Civic would have been something most of us (on here anyway) preferred to keep quiet. Not so, however, if there was a ‘Type R’ badge stuck ...