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    THE UNDEFEATED

    Jul 06, 2022 5 minutes

    FOUND MYSELF SITTING at the Porsche table at the Australian Motoring Awards in 2018. As my predecessor, Dylan Campbell, walked onto the stage to announce the winner of Performance Car of the Year, at my table cuffs were being shot and ties straightened. The new Cayman S was surely a shoo-in. And then he announced a Honda Civic as the winner, cementing a historical quirk that a Cayman never won PCOTY.

    The FK8 Civic Type R also won Bang For Your Bucks as well as every comparison it ever entered. While the Porsche 911’s record at PCOTY might well suggest that it was the definitive MOTOR champion, even Zuffenhausen’s iconic coupe can’t boast the 100 per cent knockout ratio of the Honda. That it’s also relatively affordable only underscores the Civic’s bona fides as the people’s champ.

    What’s more, there’s a symmetry here. Just as the

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