Exporting British Made Cars – The Honda Civic Type R

British made cars of a certain era are known for their unreliability and generally being ill-put together. These days though, it’s de rigueur that some of the best manufacturing in the world takes place on our own fair isle, which should mean it comes as no surprise that Honda is capitalising on this and exporting the Civic Type R to other shores.

From next year, the Type R EURO will be despatched from the Surrey Honda plant over to Japan (how mad is that!) as an alternative to their (in my own thoughts at least) extremely cool four door Civic Type R saloon. This latter car is one I definitely want to own at some point, but they are very hard to come by in the UK.

Interestingly, Japan is the third country outside of Europe to import the Type R, alongside Australia and South Africa (of all places). Swindon is the only UK plant producing the Honda Civic Type R.