IN a changing motoring landscape, performance and caring for the environment are not necessarily mutually exclusive in modern motor vehicles.Okay, many of the big and powerful four-wheel-drives and V8 blunderbusses are hardly the last word in eco-friendliness. But some car makers, including Honda, have managed to straddle the great divide between being green and economical and being mean and fast.Hondas new Civic Type R is a brilliant example of environmentally friendly engineering meeting hot handling and lively acceleration in a functional, safe and eye-catching design package.Described as petrol-head nirvana by one car magazine, the UK-made Civic Type R (its built to Hondas exacting global standards) is the successor to the cultish two-door Integra Type R of a few years ago.Its...
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