This 340-HP Honda Civic Type R TCR Race Car Is Bidding Toward $25K on Bring a Trailer

A genuine, JAS Motorsport-built Honda Civic Type R TCR racer has surfaced on Bring a Trailer, where bidding on the 2018 track weapon currently sits at $25,000 with the auction closing August 29. Chassis H70-050 spent its recent career campaigning in SCCA competition under racing veteran Peter Cunningham, and it's now offered on a bill of sale out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for buyers who want a turnkey, front-wheel-drive touring car rather than a street-legal hot hatch.

Honda Performance Development and Italian constructor JAS Motorsport introduced the Civic Type R TCR in 2017 as a global customer racer built to the TCR ruleset. Unlike the FK8-generation Civic Type R sold in North American showrooms, the TCR car is homologated from the narrower, Euro-market FK7 Civic hatchback, then reskinned with a JAS aerodynamic body kit that includes a carbon-fiber front splitter, adjustable rear wing, hood vents, and quick-release hood and decklid pins.

Under the hood is a turbocharged 2.0-liter inline-four tuned by JAS Motorsport to roughly 340 horsepower and managed through a MoTeC M142 ECU. Power routes through an Xtrac six-speed sequential gearbox and mechanical limited-slip differential exclusively to the front wheels, with a recent gearbox rebuild logging only about 1,600 kilometers since service. Ohlins dampers, electrically assisted rack-and-pinion steering, and JAS six-piston front calipers over 380mm two-piece rotors handle the chassis and stopping duties, while 18x10 OZ Racing wheels wear Pirelli rain rubber, with four additional sets mounted on Hoosier A7 and R7 tires included in the sale.

Inside, the stripped cockpit centers on a roll cage with integrated door bars and quick jacks, a single OMP fixed-back bucket seat, and a multi-point harness. The driver faces a Civic TCR-branded control panel with a brake-bias adjuster, a quick-release steering hub with paddle shifters, and a MoTeC C127 data logger with shift lights, all backed by a fire suppression system and window nets. The digital odometer shows roughly 8,000 kilometers, or about 5,000 miles.

The car's most recent competitive outing came under Peter Cunningham's RealTime Racing banner, where it won its class at the SCCA National Championship Runoffs at Road America in October 2025. The current seller acquired it via a prior Bring a Trailer sale that same November, and the package now includes a spares inventory, an SCCA logbook, manufacturer's literature, and a custom car cover. Because it's a dedicated racer, it carries no title or road registration and is sold strictly on a bill of sale for track use only.

Pure TCR racers rarely show up in mainstream price guides, so there's no direct Hagerty entry for a car like this one. But Hagerty's Valuation Tools do track the road-going Civic Type R lineage, and the numbers are telling: the original JDM-only EK9-generation Civic Type-R currently carries a #3 (Good) condition value of roughly $25,000, up more than 56 percent over the past year, a jump that mirrors the broader run-up in Japanese performance classics Hagerty has been documenting. The FK8-generation Civic Type R that Americans could actually buy new is still too young for a full Hagerty Price Guide entry, but the enthusiasm feeding JDM hot hatches and homologation specials, the kind we've also seen with oddities like the gullwing-doored Suzuki Cara, suggests the Type R badge carries real equity across eras and continents.

This TCR-spec Civic joins a growing list of track-only specials crossing the online auction block, from the six-figure BAC Mono R to charity sales of tidy, unmodified Civic Type Rs out of New Zealand. Whether bidding on H70-050 climbs much past its current $25,000 mark remains to be seen, but for a factory-built, race-winning TCR car with a documented history, it already looks like a serious way into professional-grade touring car racing.