For example, the Honda Insight had a drag coefficient of 0.25, about 1/4 that of modern Formula 1 cars. In between those two examples lie many sports cars, like the 1993 Mazda RX-7 at 0.29.

In our wild card drag race, can the big, heavy Toyota Innova Touring Sport beat Honda's sexy Civic? In our performance tests, they delivered almost identical 0-100kph times, so you never know.

There really aren’t too many hot hatches on sale these days, so when we had the opportunity to gather the Honda Civic Type R, ...

The Skoda Rapid got a new lease of life with a 1.0-litre turbocharged TSI petrol engine last year. But can it beat the Honda City 1.5 i-VTEC, the naturally-aspirated hero, on the drag strip?