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title: "Here’s Why the 2023 Honda Civic Type R Will Be Made In Japan, Not Indiana"
date: "2022-07-22"
modified: "2022-07-22"
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  - name: "James Gilboy"
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# Here’s Why the 2023 Honda Civic Type R Will Be Made In Japan, Not Indiana

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/22/2023-Civic-Type-R-Japan.jpg>)

Assembly of the [2023 Honda Civic Type R](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-2023-honda-civic-type-r-gt3-style-wing-is-all-business>) will be handled in Japan, Honda confirmed to *The Drive* on Friday. This marks a return to Honda's homeland more than a decade after the last Type R was built there.

Honda confirmed the move when after the VIN seen on the prototype at the new Type R's reveal indicated the car would be made overseas. A company spokesperson specified the assembly location would be Yorii, Saitama, factory where [the regular 2022 Civic hatchback](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/41063/2022-honda-civic-review-the-king-of-compacts-reaffirms-its-reign>) is also built. This confirms that the Type R won't be produced at Honda's Greensburg, Indiana plant, which also produces the Civic hatch.

https://twitter.com/hondaprojason/status/1549956605810053120?s=20&t=QZXOTO5Pni4FsG1sV4SYbw

"For the past three generations the Civic Type R was built in the U.K. as it was the only plant building the Civic Hatchback after the 2006 model year," a Honda spokesperson told *The Drive*. "Due to a realignment of global production, that plant has since closed."

As for why the Type R will be made in Japan and not Indiana, it's not a statement of one country's labor quality over another. Remember, Honda entrusted the [Acura NSX](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/44076/2022-acura-nsx-type-s-first-drive-review-going-out-with-a-bang>)'s entire production run to the Performance Manufacturing Center in Marysville, Ohio. Instead, Honda's spokesperson said it was more about a low-volume product like the Type R not fitting in with Greensburg's high-volume emphasis.

"Our Indiana plant is at capacity and focused on two very high-volume products, Civic Hatchback and [CR-V,](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/2023-honda-cr-v-first-look-heres-your-neighbors-next-new-hybrid>)" the Honda spokesperson said. "Adding a smaller-volume model like the Type R to that mix doesn't fit with the facility's focus at this time."

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/22/01-2023-Honda-Civic-Type-R.jpg>)
*2023 Honda Civic Type R (FL5), *Honda**

The 2023 Honda Civic Type R, codenamed FL5, will mark the first time a Japan-made Civic Type R is sold globally. While Honda also made a variant of the third-generation Type R there, the FD2 that version was only sold in Japan.

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## Author
James is a former staff writer for The Drive. He has changed the conversation around electrification, debunked misinformation online, and become a prominent hunter of what he calls "automotive cryptids."

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