It's such a shame the Honda e is going to be forbidden fruit in the US. The compact electric city car made its debut in prototype form at the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show when it was known as the Honda Urban EV, and we've been pining for it ever since. It will go on sale in Europe this summer but Honda isn't bringing it to America since small cars don't tend to sell well in the United States (see: Fiat 500). And now, just to make us even more jealous, a more powerful version could happen one day, which would be the electric equivalent of the Honda Civic Type R.



Top Gear sat down with Honda's Takahiro Shinya, Assistant Large Project Leader, to find out if any more power can be extracted from the Honda e to potentially produce a hardcore Type R version.