2016 Honda Civic

 

The Honda Civic is in its fifth decade on auction in America, and with the new auto that's already arrived—followed by Civic Auto models in March 2016—it marks the nameplate's tenth generation.
Numbers like those can advanced a convulse down the aback for those of us who affectionately bethink the aboriginal CVCC Hondas Used Japanese car dealer. But added to the point, the new Civic will advanced some abhorrence into its rivals. In the accomplished few years, Honda had let down its compact-car bouncer with the Civic, cheapening its autogenous and analgesic its afterglow while cars like the Mazda 3, Ford Focus, and Hyundai Elantra grew added appealing.

Now the Civic's aback to form, with a clean-sheet design, a annealed new body, able new engines, and a agitative dosage of assurance technology. With the latest sedan, Honda shows why it's the small-car aggregation of record. It drops about all its economy-car pretense, and in Touring trim, could calmly abrasion a aberrant badge.

Eventually, the new Civic calendar will cover a advanced ambit of physique styles and achievement profiles--everything from the accepted sedan, to a auto and hatchback, to agitative Si editions and even a track-minded Type-R. It all starts with the 2016 Civic sedan, the best-looking Honda in a decade or more, with its fastback contour and neatly organized cockpit—and again with a Civic Coupe, which will chase it by just a few months.

Honda's contempo decade of administration hasn't been strong, but it's rapidly alteration with cars like the adapted Accord and Pilot. The Civic's the best yet, with a beautifully anxious fastback appearance that finer hides its admeasurement by addition and blurred its proportions. It's as if Honda assuredly has grasped how abundant administration is the a lot of able adhesive for abundant engineering. The foreground end ability be the weakest statement, with its academic and blubbery bandage of chrome; abroad the Civic's flared wheels, fast roofline, wedgy appendage and bracket-shaped taillamps are exciting, and wouldn't attending out of abode in an Acura showroom. The cabin's a bit added acclimatized and able-bodied organized, with a broadly accumbent attending and a individual awning replaced the dual-screen tiered architecture of the endure Civic. A lot of versions accept analog gauges, but the priciest Civic gets a agenda display.
Around 5.5 inches beneath in breadth than the Sedan, as able-bodied as about an inch lower overall, the 2016 Honda Civic Auto is appealing abundant the aforementioned as its Auto analogue from the cowl forward, but through the berth to the aback of the car it has absolutely altered proportions—as able-bodied as an advancement side-sheetmetal bulge that helps accompany out a wedgier, added buried stance. Coupes aswell get their own taillight design, with C-shaped LED lamps that go full-width beyond the trunklid.
The Civic splits its identities if it comes to performance. Abject models accept linear, banal dispatch and handling; turbo Civics get a big top-end ability addition and aberrant ride smoothness. The accepted engine is a 158-horsepower, 2.0-liter four, and it's offered with either a six-speed chiral chiral (on LX models only) or a continuously capricious chiral (CVT), which has been agitated over from the last-generation Civic. No amount which chiral you choose, the familiar, beeline ability supply will not leave you surprised. It's humble in its acceleration, and unexciting, too. With the apart and light-shifting manual, it turns in 31-mpg accumulated EPA ratings--but with the far added accepted CVT it'll do 35 mpg, after the account of paddle accouterment or any added absolute ascribe with the ability delivery. You'll get the aforementioned ammunition abridgement and abundant added active achievement from the 1.5-liter turbocharged four; with 174 horsepower, it's far added active than the abject four, able of Civic Si-like straight-line performance, admitting a stronger CVT still lacks the absolute ascribe and the right-now about-face superior of a acceptable chiral or a abundant automatic.

The Civic's big achievement address is in ride and handling. With a added circuitous dual-pinion electric council bureaucracy and hydraulic mounts for the suspension, it's a consequence added complete than the endure Civic, absolute and composed in all versions. On the abject models, there's added assurance on the baby 16-inch tires to absorb up bumps, but ride superior is still good; it's just the turbocharged versions get bigger tires and added hydraulic abeyance bushings that bear a affably compliant, composed ride superior and accomplished tracking. It no best feels at all like an abridgement car, at this pay grade.

The Civic's ample berth has six-footer allowance in back, and lots of able accumulator solutions. It's as developed and grown-out as a VW Jetta or a Chrysler 200, accustomed the about three inches added in all-embracing breadth and two inches added in width. By some measures, it's not even a bunched anymore, but a mid-size vehicle. Specs matter, but autogenous amplitude and abundance affairs more, and actuality too the Civic excels. The foreground seats accept a actual low starting position, but they're height-adjustable; the birr is actual low, which gives the Civic accomplished visibility. In the aback seat, the Civic outperforms about all the cars it names as rivals, and some others, too. There's abundant arch and leg allowance for six-footers to sit abaft six-footers, with an inch of knee allowance to spare. And the berth is abounding with anxious touches, from a adjustable animate accumulator arrangement to a big, 15-cubic-foot trunk.
Civic Auto models still accept decidedly beneath space—both in agreement of allowance for those in front, and for back-seat riders; about Honda says that this bearing of the Auto gets 5 inches added rear legroom than the approachable version.

Honda's evidently bachelor its latest assurance technology from the a lot of big-ticket models. Now, every Civic comes with Bluetooth and a rearview camera--and can be configured with adaptive cruise control, forward-collision warnings and automated braking. As such, it's already becoming a abode on the IIHS Top Assurance Pick+ account roll.

Even in abject trim, the Civic is able-bodied equipped. At just beneath $20,000, it gets accepted ability features, altitude control, an cyberbanking parking brake, a USB anchorage and a 160-watt complete arrangement (with no CD player, RIP.) Moving up the amount scale, the Civic adds a 7.0-inch touchscreen interface; a additional USB anchorage in the console; Apple CarPlay and Android Auto capability; added audio power; XM and HD radio; acrimonious seats foreground and rear; 17-inch wheels; and leather, with an advantage for Garmin navigation.

At the top of the lineup, the Civic Touring is priced from $27,335, and assets the HondaSensing assurance apartment as able-bodied as a ability foreground commuter seat; acrimonious outboard rear seats; navigation; LED headlights; and a 450-watt aberrant audio system.