Honda's New Civic Type R HRC Is Coming to America…

My mom used to pick me up in after school care and a Honda Civic, but it did not look like this. I'm here at SEMA 2026 at the Honda booth with Robert. When you look at the cars at the SEMA show, you notice a lot of Brembo brakes. It's for the same reason many of the world's finest sports cars and race cars trust Brembo. And now Brembo makes a full line of top quality brakes for almost every make and model. Every vehicle deserves Brembo. I know nothing about this other than it's a Civic Type R and it has kind of a funky paint job. So you're going to have to fill in a lot of blanks for me, Robert. So this is the Civic Type R HRC concept. So what we've done is our race-winning engineers that have done all the cars that you see in the rest of the booth have worked tirelessly to get this concept up to a level that is worthy of an HRC name. And what did that involve? Like what makes this different than my off-the-lot Honda Civic? Well, as a concept right now, I can't tell you about that. We are announcing, we showed this at the Tokyo Auto Salon last year. So it's the same concept that we had there. We do announce that we are developing this vehicle for the North American market, which is great. That's really the big takeaway. That's the takeaway, yeah. So we are going to have that announcement coming out about all the specs soon. We can't get into that right now. But just know it's going to be worth the wait. I think of Honda Civic and I think of like a responsible family vehicle. Why on earth would we type R concept a Honda Civic? Well, of course, you have the Civic, you have the Civic Si, you have the Civic Type R, which if you've driven that, you know that that's already one of the higher performance vehicles that we have, of course, in the Honda stable, but in the world, right? Where can you go further from there? What can you do? And so our engineers got a chance to explore that. You guys are just exploring the space, pushing the limits. Pushing the limits. Yeah, exactly pushing the limits. Spec-wise, what can you tell me about? Again, you know, I understand this is like a new launch and you maybe don't want to give us too much on camera, but what can you say spec-wise for this? Well, spec-wise, I can't say a lot. You're right. What you can see is what you can deduce from what we've got here. Of course, you'll see. Exterior-wise, you're going to see aero. You're going to see new bits and pieces, wheels, things like that. Whatever you can see on the car here today is what I can tell you about. Is this definitely coming to the U.S. market? Yeah, it's definitely coming to the U.S. market, Jeff. Do you have a date? No, I do not have a date yet on that. That means you don't have a price either. Yeah, I do not have a price on it. I haven't heard yet what it could be. You guys heard it here first, 90 days from now for $39,000, the Honda Type R Concept. Now, Rob, thank you so much for being on the program. Guys, thank you for watching. Stay tuned. We're bringing you more from autoguide.com at SEMA 2026. Take care.