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HERE’S AN AUTOMOTIVE PUB QUIZ FACT OF the type guaranteed to have your significant other downing their chosen tipple with a look of abject despair. Did you know the 2020 Civic Type R has a more densely packed sequence of fins in its radiator core? The gap between each row is reduced by 0.5mm down to 2.5mm. You want more? Don’t worry, there’s plenty.

Possibly every mid-life facelift of a performance car has the same miniscule improvements made, tiny advantages eked out by world-class engineers, sometimes offset by increasingly stringent emissions or safety legislation, or input from marketeers. It is, however, a level of scrutiny and microscopic development deeply associated with the Japanese marques, which are, at the very least, unmatched at letting us know about the whole process, whether that’s this month’s evolution of