Performance Car of the Year is done and dusted, and the PCOTY issue of MOTOR is due on shelves soon.

If you want to find out which car won via the mag, turn back now, but if you don’t mind spoilers, read on.

After almost a week of testing ten cars on track at Winton and in Victoria’s alpine north, MOTOR came to the conclusion that there was one clear PCOTY winner for 2018

And that winner is the Honda Civic Type R.

It came as a surprise to judges and everyone present that despite the far more powerful and expensive competition being staggeringly fun to drive, the Civic provided some of the biggest smiles of the event.

You can read just how that climb took place in the next issue of MOTOR Magazine, on sale February 1, as well as getting a look at how its competition fared.