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The very first Honda Civic Type R is being made available to U.S. buyers via auction, and it’s probably going to go for a small fortune. While my sensible side wants to urge you to save your money and wait for the second or even third Type R to hit our shores, the premium you’re paying to be numero uno is going to a good cause. Honda donated the Civic to the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation and all the proceeds will go to the charity.
That gives you the right to install the most obnoxiously loud exhaust system legally allowed and rev up that homely hot rod in your driveway day and night. If your neighbors complain, you can tell them that your car helped save the lives of children before asking them what their CR-V has done for the world.
Based on spy shots from CivicX, the Type R’s pre-destination base price is expected to be $33,900. However, the charity Honda has already eclipsed that number.
At present, the current bid is $47,500 and it has a full week in which to further swell. After the auction ends, the winning bidder can have the vehicle shipped to their local Honda dealer. The final selling price of the Type R, plus the usual five-percent auction fee for Bring A Trailer, will be collectively donated to the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation.
[Images: Bring A Trailer]
Nice move by Honda, but you can keep it.
Yea no way they’re going to pawn that thing off on me for $47,500. Going to take a lot more money to get me to take that.
Honda… we keep it simple!
Except for the rear end,
That’s a complicated mess.
Wonder how much it would cost to fix that thing if it got rear ended at city speeds?
God bless Bring a Trailer, one of my favorite daydream sites. I’m happy to see them grow, and having Honda select them for this task is probably a major milestone for them, having started as a place for a couple of dudes to dump their cool Craigslist and Ebay finds.
No, the new Civic is not a good-looking car, and the Type R accouterments don’t help at all, but ugly ain’t stopped me yet. This is a great move and I wish I were in a position to participate in the auction.
Nice move in the context that in the radius of 100 mi there are only 2 hatchbacks with manuals. May be, auction will be the way to move them.
That thing looks like a tumor!
It’s not a toomah!
youtube.com/watch?v=Zyd-P6XT6QU
I think I’m the only person who finds the the Type-R agreeable.
I dig it. Reminds me of a Gundam Wing.