Sonic Gray Pearl's the FL5 colour, and this 2025 Type R shows you why owners protect it from day one. Icon Rocklear, our permanent paint protection coating, bonds into the clear coat and gives the grey a depth it doesn't have off the lot, with the red Honda badge popping against a hood full of clean hex reflections.

A new Type R's a car you're planning to keep, and protecting the paint once rather than annually is the version of that plan that survives daily driving. Here's what that actually involves.