WHAT IS IT about some cars? The ones you spend ten minutes behind the wheel with, and then you’re hooked.

You can’t stop thinking about them, how they feel at wheel, and how they make a sound that gets into your skin and makes your neck hairs tingle when you’re firing through the gearbox and the [...]

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MUGEN EURO, Mugen’s UK-based subsidiary, has confirmed reports that it is developing a one-off highly-tuned Civic Type R ‘Mugen’ hot hatch to assess public reaction in UK and European markets.

Work is currently underway on the car in Japan, after which it will be transported to the UK for testing and further performance development.

Using the same [...]

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FOR MANY HONDA FANS, Mugen is the one company that’s capable of extracting the best from Honda’s hi-po models.

Responsible for many factory-modified creations (and more than a few impressive concept cars), Mugen has by-and-large kept its most desirable vehicles restricted to the Japanese market.

While Mugen tuning parts are available for order across much of the [...]

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We’ve all been there. Usually it’s at a track day while other times its a windy mountain road. No matter the setting we’re all undoubtedly familiar with those situations where your passenger gets a little queasy when you’re busy twirling the tiller.

Girlfriends and best friends are the usual victims, but ex-F1 champ Damon Hill found [...]

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It’s always a little odd that some car makers sell certain models under their own badge in overseas markets, but not in their own.  Sure, it isn’t unusual, it happens often enough, and there may be more than enough good marketing reasons to justify it.

Nonetheless, it’s strange that a hero car like the Honda Civic [...]

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