There's a certain demographic that would like it, and an obvious demographic that would not be happy about it. From a manufacturing / cost standpoint, there's no arguing the merits of it. I'm just saying it's coming.

This shouldn't be almost certainly isn't the Type R that makes it to America. The Type R that was initially coming to America is based on the all new Civic platform, and I'm pretty sure this Type R is still based on the old platform. This sure looks like the final evolution of the Euro hatch style, and the next gen…

I'm 32, with a S2000 and 135i (manual too), so not super old and able to claim a decent amount of Jalop-ness, and I absolutely LOVE our Grand Cherokee with all of the doodads. Blind spot monitoring, back-up camera, forward collision warning, and BEST of all, automatic cruise control.

Stay right there, I'll go get you a towel.

Shown: The white one taken peacefully with non-lethal force.

As big as that was, it makes me wonder about the (intentional) explosion that happened a few years ago in Indy when someone blew their house up to collect insurance, and ended up killing two of the neighbors. Both houses were completely erased. 3 people were charged and went to jail for it.

Anyone want to fancy a guess, or calculations, how thick that concrete pad has to be that they're all standing on? Sheesh

And broke his arm. You can see it folded in half when he picks it up and its spilling blood everywhere. Rough day

AMEN

The Indiana plant makes the Civic Hybrid as well, so they have some experience / capability / tooling capable of dealing with battery packs. They got rid of the 5 door because building the hatch posed a concern from a layout / tooling standpoint, so rule out crossovers.

Usually the Temple of VTEC has a pretty accurate model matrix that lays all of that out. And HRAO works on a lot of projects at once.

I already responded to someone else with a pretty good hint...

I'm not going to just blatantly reveal industry secrets, but the car has been reported about on Jalopnik. I was referring to the car that would be built at the Indiana factory, not Honda as a whole; there are countless number of cars that are developed and studied around the globe.

I'm completely serious, once I found out the Type R was moved away from the Indiana plant, and heard about the next car we'd be doing... Time to move along...

Here's the data to do the actual comparison...

I think a good comparison would be the markup for a Tesla Model S vs. the markup on the Mustang. Without looking, I don't know if the Model S is officially on sale in China, but Musk specifically said that the Model S would be priced so that it covered the cost of shipping and whatnot, and not tack on extra money…

Yup, how we would / could do the hatch in Indiana was a big concern item. On the main line poses multiple ergonomic concerns... A new sub-line = $$$$... And by hatch I mean the actual hatch, the fifth door

...Canada has pretty similar regulations to the US so if it meets Canada's standards it will not be hard to make it meet the US standards.

That's basically what is done, the Si is mid-level performance, and the Type R is top of the line.

I would say with almost absolute certainty the 5 door is still a go; it's the Type R that I have my doubts.