The Ford Focus RS has captured everybody’s attention in the hot hatch world, but Honda is getting ready to fight back in 2017. This prototype of the next Civic Type R seems to do everything right and has once again been filmed at the Nordschleife.

What strikes us as being odd is how often the exhaust system pops on the overruns. Usually, test car drivers don’t bother to intentionally trigger this, which leads us to believe that …