It's not just that it's 28 years old with plenty of mileage, but this Type R is also a right-hand-drive import ...

Pixel artist Rain Prisk, who served as vehicle designer at Ubisoft between 2017 and 2019, is a huge fan of the first-generation Civic Type R. So much so that he calls the EK9 his favorite while ...

Honda chose the Civic SiR as the starting point for the Type R, and then proceeded to beef everything up to 11. Much like the SiR, the EK9 Civic Type R was exclusive to the Japanese domestic ...

Lurking not too far in the background was the Integra Type R's brethren, the EK9 Civic Type R. Like the DC2R, both were pinnacles to their respective platforms and previously unavailable in the U ...

Fitted with a 45-liter (11.9-gallon) fuel tank under the trunk floor, the sixth-gen Civic-based Type R features identical tracks fore and aft. Under the hood, the EK9 hides a 1,595-cc engine from ...

Driving the EK9 Civic Type R is Honda’s B16B 1.6-liter 4-cylinder with 182 hp. The JDM hot hatch rocks a five-speed manual gearbox and a limited-slip differential. This example was imported into ...

The educated Honda buff knows otherwise because they know that a Civic CX was never offered in Osaka—or anywhere else in Japan. Not only is this not a USDM CX model, it’s an actual EK9 Civic ...

focused primarily on humble four-cylinder units. And the finest of these could well be the original EK9 Civic Type R. make the EK9 Type R a real blast to drive on road and track. In fact it feels ...

The Japan-only EK9 Honda Civic Type R, introduced in August 1997, is still the fastest accelerating Civic - and boasts a blueprinted 1.6-litre VTEC engine producing a staggering 185hp at 8,200rpm.