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In the same way that you don't want to bring a knife to a gunfight, you don't want to show up at the Nürburgring with some floppy old commuter car.

Deep concerns in Japan that the global credit crisis structurally shifted the market in North America towards smaller and less-expensive vehicles led Honda to make major changes in its product plans late last year

Here is the question: why do you need 617 horsepower in your everyday commuter car?

The answer: To hit 338 km/h (210 mph) in a handful of seconds.

Those with a sense of history - Ford Motor history - might be disappointed to learn that the 2010 Taurus SHO does not have the deliciously free-revving Yamaha V-6 of the original 1990 SHO. Don't be. Twenty years on, Ford has discovered a new SHO formula and it's at least as hot-rod cool as the factory-built sleeper that baby boomer gearheads embraced in their 20s.

It's easily the most expensive Civic yet, costs a wallet-withering £38,599 and in one sense is an absolute bargain. Why? Because each of these tuned 240bhp Type Rs costs about £190,000 to build, netting creator Mugen a £150,000 loss for every example sold.

OK all you Civic fan boys with large checkbooks and connections to the home market, get your browsers ready, because there's going to be a whole lot of JDM parts for you to order up. At this year's Tokyo Motor Show, Honda rolled out a JDM only version of the Civic officially called Civic Type R Euro.

As we sit here and wait patiently for Subaru to unveil its version of the rear-wheel-drive coupe, that is a result of the collaboration with Toyota, more speculation continues to surface about what we might see.

Mugen is effectively Honda’s equivalent of Mercedes-Benz's AMG or BMW's M Division. Although not a part of the main Honda company, Mugen builds racing versions of many of its cars on Honda's behalf

Honda rolled into the Tokyo Auto Show with the latest version of the CR-Z hybrid, a car that may well be the spiritual successor to the CR-X, and said we’ll see it on the road next year.

The third concept to take the Honda's stage at the Tokyo Motor Show next month alongside the CR-Z and Skydeck will be the EV-N Concept. At first glance the small electric EV-N immediately recalls Honda's N360 minicar from the 1960s.