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what's up folks Antoine Goodwin here on the floor at the 2014 Paris Auto Show and here's something that you're not going to see on American soil anytime soon it's a Honda Civic hatchback and it's the Type R now this new type r concept is going to be powered by a 2-liter version of Honda's Ivy Tech engine but it's also gonna be augmented with a turbocharger now what that means is that this guy's gonna output about 276 horsepower at least Honda's not actually locked down the numbers yet it's gonna be front wheel drive like every Civic that's come before it and it's going to use a six-speed manual transmission but from new things that we're gonna see on this vehicle are a three-stage adaptive suspension so you'll be able to switch between different modes for Street and for track there's also a plus R button next to the steering wheel and all in one sort of sport button that's gonna set the engines performance and the suspension set up at their most hardcore track ready and Honda maintains that this wide-body Civic is a track car and that they're gunning for the Nurburgring front-wheel drive record with it again I'm probably not gonna see this on the street any time in North America but a version of this will probably be hitting European streets Japanese streets sometime in the next year or so I'm Antoine Goodwin on the floor at the 2014 Paris Auto Show taking a look at the Honda Civic type-r concept you