Manufacturing of the 2023 Honda Civic Kind R has ramped up in Japan. This video takes viewers inside Honda’s Yorii Plant to see how the most recent Kind R will get constructed. Listen, although, as a result of there isn’t any narration.

The video reveals your complete meeting course of in nearly eight and half minutes, beginning with the physique store, the place sheet steel is pressed into physique panels. These items are then welded and bonded collectively to kind the physique shell, after which the hood, doorways, and hatch are hooked up. The finished physique shell is then painted.

Every part up thus far is very automated, with people principally checking work carried out by robots. Different jobs are extra hands-on. Employees manually insert the grille into the entrance bumper, and likewise bolt the K20C1 2.0-liter turbo-4 engine to the transaxle. Whereas remaining meeting takes place in Japan, Kind R engines are sourced from Honda’s Anna Engine Plant in Sidney, Ohio.

The engine produces 315 hp and 310 lb-ft of torque, making the 2023 Civic Kind R probably the most highly effective Honda-badged automobile ever bought within the U.S. Granted, it is comparatively small enchancment over the outgoing Kind R’s 306 hp and 295 lb-ft, achieved through a redesigned turbocharger, elevated air consumption circulate price, and a extra environment friendly exhaust system. Energy is routed to the entrance wheels by way of a revised 6-speed guide transmission with a rev-matching system just like the one within the 2022 Civic Si.  

Meeting continues with set up of the engine, suspension parts, and brakes, which go onto the automobile as a part of entrance and rear subassemblies. The video clearly reveals the Brembo entrance brake calipers, which clamp two-piece entrance rotors, and the entrance strut and multi-link rear suspensions are seen as properly. Each ends had been retuned to accommodate the longer and wider Eleventh-generation Civic platform the brand new Kind R is predicated on.

Seats and different inside parts comply with. Every accomplished automobile then goes to a top quality management station—which features a fast dyno check—earlier than being pushed out of the manufacturing unit for cargo. A few of these automobiles needs to be reaching U.S. dealerships quickly.