Fifty thousand dollars and no red paint: the 2027 Civic Type R on Matt Maran Motoring
Honda's refreshed hot hatch drew about 55,000 views on its first day, and its comment section is busy with prices, paint and horsepower.
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The 2027 Honda Civic Type R Gets a Bunch of Changes!
Matt Maran's week opened with Honda's freshly updated Civic Type R, and it stayed the busiest thing he posted. The description promises lots of small but welcome changes, a higher price and a couple of lost paint colors, and viewers seized on exactly those last two.
The comments read like a pricing seminar. Many are startled to see a Civic near $50,000, some remember when this generation started in the mid-$40,000s, and others warn that dealer markups will finish the job. One sharp-eyed viewer works out that the new Meteorite Gray carries no surcharge, which keeps the price just under the line. The missing black and red get a lot of mourning, and a running joke holds that Japanese carmakers will change anything except the horsepower.
The rest of the week was classic Matt: a week living with the 2027 Chevy Bolt RS, which he calls a bargain that is only around for one model year, his 234th live Q&A, and a Hyundai Palisade Hybrid Calligraphy review billed as impressive with one glaring issue. That Palisade, two days old, is now pulling in views faster than anything else on the channel, with his 2026 Toyota C-HR week still trailing behind it.
Overall the channel ran slower than its usual pace, roughly half a typical day, and subscribers held steady at 461,000. That was common among similar car channels: most were below their norm, with doubt and ReDriven still having the biggest weeks by far. Matt's view gain sat in the middle of that group.
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What viewers say
No black and red is crazy
@sussybakamogusSee it on YouTube$50k for a civic is wild times
@peopleschampgarage7869See it on YouTubeCorrection: Meteorite Gray isn't a premium color, so if you get that color, and only that color, the price does in fact remain under $50k at $49,990.
@MattMaranMotoringSee it on YouTube
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Dash is sick. I am jealous as a '26 owner.
@luistrompetaSee it on YouTubeNew grey is sick
@andrewb325See it on YouTubeId love to see a wagon version.
@wvusmcSee it on YouTubeIf you thinking 50k is a lot, just wait until the dealer adds markups and fees 😭
@carterdavis5176See it on YouTubeJapanese manufacturers will do literally anything except add hp 😂
@BriansvtrinitySee it on YouTube
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- Matt Maran Motoring
- Subscribers
- 461,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 247,276
- Videos published this week
- 4
- Video published
- October 1, 2026
- Video views so far
- 81,317
- Views on its first day
- 54,913
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The original Chevrolet Bolt EV, the ancestor of Matt's 2027 Bolt RS, first went on sale as which model year?
Chevrolet launched the Bolt EV as a 2017 model, and it was named Motor Trend Car of the Year for that year.
