Re-reading this I remembered that Hondas of the 80s and 90s used to have very low bonnet lines - and so shorter strut (or wishbone/strut) front suspensions. Nowadays cars have higher bonnet lines to add a couple of inches of crumple for the poor pedestrians who get hit.
I'm no suspension expert but you do get the geometry by drawing a line from the top of the strut and intersecting it with the line created by the bottom wishbone. So I guess just shortening the strut would have an effect on geometry.
