EK9: JDM Civic brochure & Accessories catalogues

Recently, I found a set of nice JDM 6th generation (EK / MB) Honda Civic sales brochures for sale in Japan. I thought they might have some nice information about my car, so I made sure I got them.

The first one (white) is the standard Civic Sales brochure, with all the EJ / EK variants. Aside from all the Cars models variations, there is also some cool background information on safety, differentials, Automatic transmissions, etc. which you don’t find in the EK9 brochure, where they focus more on the sporty features of the car.

However, when it comes to the TypeR (EK9) There is only a little remark at the bottom of one side of the brochure, which mentions the car:

On the next page, there is again a little banner at the bottom of the page, which refers to a different “TypeR only” sales brochure. Of course, we know those EK9 brochures very well, and I own a range of them, but I still think it’s somehow weird that the TypeR was somehow excluded from the standard brochure and marketed separately.

Aside from all the dealer options of the standard car (visible in the previous brochure), there were also many accessories for the 6th gen Civic. So the second brochure is by “Honda access” showing all these parts.

Aside from all the fog-lights, tire chains, roof racks and plenty of Gathers audio options, I thought this page was rather interesting:
Firstly, I really liked the factory car covers, but then I saw that they sold the standard (non TypeR) hatchback roof spoiler with the 3rd brake light as a “safety option” for the EK9 too. Which I thought was kind of ironic. Especially, when you think that nowadays all the people put TypeR spoilers on their non TypeR cars. So they develop a special roof spoiler for the TypeR and then sell you the standard one as a safety option. Brilliant 🙂