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Honda has announced that they will be offering the Civic Type-R to folks that live down under. Honda Australia director Stephen Collins confirmed to CarAdvice that the Civic Type-R will be available in the country, though specific timing wasn't divulged.

“We are trying to confirm timing and therefore have not officially announced as yet,” Collins told us today. “It’s a matter of when not if — it will return to Australia for sure. [We] Should be able to confirm timing in the next few months."

Australia is quite the market for these hot hatches. 25% of Golds sold there are either the GTI or the R, and Australia is also the second largest market for Renaultsport cars after France. So the Civic Type-R will have to compete with the likes of the new Megane RS 275 Trophy and the Golf R.

Australians should be able to pick up their new Honda Civic Type-R around the start of the summer (I am assuming that means the Australian start of the winter, summer for us in the north).

 

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Yeah, but there's not much to worry about here as they do in fact have plans for a north american model, just that we may see a different breed of it. If this was the exact model we're set to get, I bet order books would have opened the same time as austrailia.

That begs the question, what will be different about the North American model?

 

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I was being hyperbolic, forgive me Yea, 1 world model, which ostensibly means we will not be getting THIS Type R, but the next one...

I just don't understand why they wouldn't bring this one to NA. There is obviously enough demand for it here and I would think that NA is one of the most likely places to buy performance cars. Does anybody have any idea what Honda's logic is behind this decision?