Recently snatching Top Gear’s highest award in The Stig’s Hot Hatch shootout, the 2007 Honda Civic Type R has been thrown into the Gym and bulked up considerably courtesy of JAS Motorsport.

Matt Davies, Euro Editor of Winding Road has had the opportunity to enjoy the JAS incarnation around Portugal’s Aut dromo do Estoril, you can experience the journey below.

Further detail can be found in Winding Road’s FREE online magazine. Although based in the US (thus missing out on a great deal of the Hot Hatch fun) it is highly recommended reading.

Nick Hall of WorldCarFans had the recent delight in thumping the new Mini Cooper through many a twist and turn blazing a trail from Barcelona through to Amsterdam all in the name of late night clubbing pursuits.

A quality read, Nick summed up many common thoughts regarding the dish plate sized central speedometer.

“It???s bigger than an elephant???s head and yet still hard to read thanks to its low-slung, central position. It???s overdone, Care Bear cute and after 12 hours at the wheel made me want to smash the car???s cute little face in.”

Kick on through to WorldCarFans for the full article here. There are also plenty of pictures to decorate your new MINI shrine with also.

You live in an Automotive Black Hole if you haven’t heard of The Stig and his antics as the mysterious test driver on the BBC’s Top Gear, the biggest motoring TV show across the globe universe.

The March 2007 edition of Top Gear Magazine is now out and given the 29 hot hatches reviewed by The Stig it proves to be the most complete review of the Hot Hatch line up available thus far.

Only one thing for it, either subscribe online or head down to the local newsagent and grab a copy.