All told, we were right to question its place in the lineage and enormously relieved when in the end, in part at least, the FK2 very much earned it. But it wasn’t perfect by any stretch.

The FK8’s 2-litre turbocharged four-cylinder engine is the same basic unit found in the previous FK2 model. A relatively conventional engine, the 1996cc DOHC four-cylinder utilises both VTEC ...