Ichishima-san of Spoon Sports doesn’t seem so fussed. He’s confident Honda is at a crossroads right now and knows that whatever performance cars it will come up with in the future will ...

Reviews were positive, but not effusive. Sales though, were strong, because the FN2 was a brilliantly bold bit of design. It looked like some kind of futuristic fighter pilot’s helmet and ...

Obviously, this generation brought along a new Type R, the FN2, but there was a problem. The eighth generation Civic hatchback was significantly larger than the EP, and that meant a good amount of ...

The rest of the world has had some time to play with these cars, and the FN2 generation, the first to make use of the venerable K20 engine, has been a favorite of tuners. This one has been boosted ...

The FL5 could even be described as more modest than Honda’s third Civic Type R, the FN2, which arrived in 2007. Hot on the heels of the impressive ‘breadvan’ EP3 Civic Type R, the FN2 packed ...

It was followed up by the FN2 Civic Type R before the car ditched naturally-aspirated power in favor of a turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder found in the subsequent FK2, FK8, and FL5 models.

I can still clearly recall writing the initial road test on the FN2 for a weekly car magazine. There was a lot of excitement surrounding the model at the time. Sure, the styling must have bemused ...

However, it came to Britain only through specialist importers. The FN2 is its hatchback equivalent and considered by many to be the worst Civic Type R of them all. It still had a 2.0-liter VTEC ...

As such, the FN2 shared platform elements with the Honda Fit, including the under-seat fuel tank, and a torsion-beam rear axle instead of the more complex multi-link rear end used on the FD2.

It may seem an obvious one for a track project but with good reason - can the FN2 match it? There's a common belief , thanks in part to a certain television show, that the FN2 can't match the EP3 ...

The third generation 2007 FN2 Civic Type R was received with disappointment in some quarters as the power output was almost unchanged from the EP3, but the 20hp European spec FN2 hatchback was ...

Taken separately, the TD Stage One FN2 supercharger conversion has been specified to function with the stock Honda air intake and exhaust system. Dyno testing revealed the stage one kit ...