For decades, the Civic Type R was forbidden fruit for American buyers. Although it originally debuted in 1997 on the sixth-generation Civic platform, it wasn’t until 2017 that Honda’s most performance-focused production car finally made its way stateside. Enthusiasts rejoiced at the news, but when they actually got a look at what the automaker had created on the bones of the already-busy tenth-generation Civic design, there were… concerns.
