Hot on the heels of the hardcore Championship White Civic Type-R , Honda continues the sporting theme by broadening its Type-S model range. But before you get too excited, it hasn't created a junior hot hatch.

Salalah - "It was love at first sight." laughs Mr Anil Kumar, speaking of the moment he spotted the All New Honda Jazz 2009 in the Honda Salalah Showroom. "My wife and I had driven a Jazz in Cyprus and we felt it was the ideal car for us.

The air had a bit of a bite, but there was no better way to enjoy the fading days of fall than by humming along a twisty back road in a roadster, the top down (and the heater cranked up), listening to the burble of the exhaust while a rooster tail of leaves sw...