2023 Honda Civic Type R starts at under $43,000

The 2023 Honda Civic Type R is set to arrive at a dealership near you “starting tomorrow,” with a starting MSRP of $42,895.

Also noted by Honda in today’s press release? The next-gen Type R is rated for 22 mpg in the city and 28 mpg on the highway–adding up to a combined 24 mpg.

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trucke SuperDork
10/27/22 9:52 a.m.

Wow! I'll keep my FK8!

QuikMcshifterson New Reader
10/27/22 11:10 a.m.

I'm betting it's more like:

Including a $1095 Destination Charge and a 'Market Value Adjustment' of $20,000 that total comes out to $63,990.

Colin Wood Associate Editor
10/27/22 11:43 a.m.

That does seem like a lot of money for a Civic Type R, so I wanted to run the numbers through an inflation calculator just for fun. Here's what I got:

Starting MSRP for the 2021 model was $37,895.
Plugging that price into an inflation calculator–and assuming you bought a 2021 model at MSRP in 2021 (which I know nobody did)–I get $41,508.43 in 2022 monies.

Edit:

Here's the inflation calculator I used.

CrustyRedXpress GRM+ Memberand Dork
10/27/22 11:52 a.m.

Colin Wood said:
That does seem like a lot of money for a Civic Type R, so I wanted to run the numbers through an inflation calculator just for fun. Here's what I got:

Starting MSRP for the 2021 model was $37,895.

Plugging that price into an inflation calculator–and assuming you bought a 2021 model at MSRP in 2021 (which I know nobody did)–I get $41,508.43 in 2022 monies.

This is good mathing. At one point increases in the price of cars was a large component of the overall inflation rate, which would make the 43.9k figure even more reasonable.

Tom1200 UberDork
10/27/22 11:57 a.m.

aaaaaaand an inflation adjusted CRX Si would be about 23K in todays dollars.

The type R is an amazing car but for me one of the key elements of a hot hatch is a low to lowish price.

I can buy a hell of a used performance car for 43K.........again I am cheap.

CrustyRedXpress GRM+ Memberand Dork
10/27/22 12:16 p.m.

Tom1200 said:
aaaaaaand an inflation adjusted CRX Si would be about 23K in todays dollars.

The type R is an amazing car but for me one of the key elements of a hot hatch is a low to lowish price.

I can but a hell of a used performance car for 43K.........again I am cheap.

True! But an integra type r in 2000 was 24.5k, or about 39.8k in today's dollars.

https://www.autobytel.com/acura/integra/2000/prices/

https://www.calculator.net/inflation-calculator.html?cstartingamount1=24500&cinyear1=2000&coutyear1=2022&calctype=1&x=69&y=15

kb58 UltraDork
10/27/22 12:51 p.m.

Farewell, grassroots

trucke SuperDork
10/27/22 1:42 p.m.