When we say “sport compact,” we imagine most people think of cars like the Subaru WRX, Mitsubishi’s epic Lancer Evo, or our beloved Honda Civic Type R—small, usually (but not always) imported cars with hot-rodded four-cylinder engines. The sport compact craze is generally acknowledged to have begun in the 1980s, but we say it started...
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