![]() A world away from the fast-but-obnoxious last gen. It’s still very obviously a fast Civic, but it’s calmer looking, more confident. Weird analogies are even harder.īut looking at the newest version of the Civic Type R, glistening in traditional Championship White paintwork at the Tazio Nuvolari circuit in Italy, you can’t help thinking that the CTR has finally settled, found its niche. Suffice to say, growing up is hard to do. Though I doubt Swift gets as specific as the Yoshio Nakamura and Shoichi Sano’s Honda RA272 of 1965 (the V12 racing car that delivered Honda’s first ever F1 win). There’s a comfortable self-referencing of things that have gone before remixed for a modern audience Swift and Styles play with the music of the Sixties, the Type R with its level-headed back catalogue of reliable, accessible greats inspired – but not bound by – racing. Talented youngster grows up in the public eye, goes through changes, has a bit of an experimental/outrageous phase and then settles into a happy bout of maturity and broad appeal. If the Civic Type R were a pop star, it would be Taylor Swift.
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