The New Honda Civic Type R Somehow Makes 295bhp At The Wheels
Despite a claimed power output of only a little over 300bhp, a tuning company's dyno test suggests that the Civic might be a bit more powerful than that...
The Honda Civic Type R is putting out 295bhp at the wheels, according to a Puerto Rican dyno test that suggests that either the car is putting out even more than its claimed power, or that its drivetrain losses are pretty damn small.
With 316bhp the advertised flywheel power figure, a loss of just 21bhp through the engine, gearbox and drive shafts would be way lower than expected.
The real truth, which the tuning company’s Facebook post doesn’t help us with, is that the Civic might simply be putting out a fair bit more than 316bhp; perhaps more like 335bhp. Or maybe the dyno is over-reading. DynoCenter’s video above is too short to give us any extra information to help us judge. Either way, that’s one feisty Civic.
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it makes more sense that the car makes 306 WHP and around 350 CHP.
I want to see a Type R and a Focus RS compete😍😍😍
Roberto Pagan that’s quite a bit of power to the front wheels. And unlike previous Honda engines cough cough B16 cough cough this motor actually makes torque
The vtec serie was made to go alongside a really light body leading to high cornering speed and constant high rev of the engine. Having more than 8000 rpm to ise was a huge adventage cough murican v8 cough
Many cars seem to have underquoted power. Look at all those “276hp” Japanese sports cars? The 570S that should really be called the 620S? The first R35 GT-R supposedly had more than 500hp. I’ve even heard reports that the Veyron has more than 1001hp!
I feel this is perhaps more due to honda managing to free up a lot of drivetrain loss somehow rather than it being massivley ovwr powerful, would be fairly reasonable for the car to perhaps be making more akin to 320-325 crank imho
“Gentlemans agreement”
Still more powerful than a mclaren Honda
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honda is a stupid company
why not they give us exactly what is makes at flywheel and at the wheels its a entusihastic car any potential buyer would interested in those figures right?