Honda Civic

On the inside, the Honda Civic isn’t as edgy and aggressive looking as how it looks on the outside. However, the interior layout feels very much sporty, with the all-black cabin with silver inserts and driver-centric dashboard aiding in that direction.

The four-spoke multi-functional steering wheel with silver accents looks nice, however, the instrument console partitioned in three parts gets a fully digital speedometer and MID in the middle, making the driver’s cockpit look futuristic. The centre console is slightly tilted towards the driver and has tapered down design for the AC vents at the top.

Below it sits the touchscreen infotainment system, which looks protruding from upwards and gets a sleek panel for automatic climate control buttons just below it. The cascading theme downwards gets silver vertical panels on either side, a finish that is well-executed across the width of the dashboard.

The Honda Civic is rich with additional features like push-button start with keyless entry, powered driver’s seat, leather upholstery, electric parking brake, cruise control, and paddle shifters. However, what has been given a compromise here is the overall rear seat experience, which thanks to the sloping roofline, imparts a limited headroom especially for taller passengers.

The Honda Civic has always been the sportiest looking sedan in its category of midsize sedans, and the current iteration manages to follow the tradition and look the best. The sporty fastback-like styling and edgy styling elements do make it look very desirable for its segment.

The frontal look of the Honda Civic is quite wide, all thanks to the long and wide front grille with a layered design, and gets flanked with angular all-LED headlamps accentuated with daytime running LEDs. The front bumper too looks quite aggressive with big and wide housings for small LED fog lamps, with neat chrome accents above them.

The side profile of the Honda Civic looks neat with a coupe-like design having a sloping curved roofline towards the rear. The rounded wheel arches with prominent bulges add to the sporty appeal, while the machined alloy wheels and chrome finished door handles and window frame add elegance to the design.

The Honda Civic is at its best when viewed from the rear, with the notchback style boot design, hexagonal space for the license plate housing and boomerang-shaped LED tail lamps rounding off the design at the back.

In the RS Turbo version, the Honda Civic’s sportiness quotient is raised even further with the blackened front grille, alloy wheels, RS badging, and boot lid-mounted spoiler.

The overall sporty styling of the Honda Civic is nicely complemented by its sporty suspension setup, which is a combination of Macpherson struts at the front and multi-link at the rear. The steering too feels connected, and the paddle shifters aid in the engaging driving experience even further.

On offer for Honda Civic are two petrol-powered powertrains, both of which are mated to a common CVT gearbox. The smaller 1.6-litre four-cylinder petrol motor produces 124 PS of maximum power output and 154 Nm of peak torque output. On the other hand, the bigger 2.0-litre four-cylinder petrol motor generates 159 PS of power and 187 Nm of torque.

Packed with safety features like front, side and curtain airbags, ABS with EBD, vehicle stability assist, multi-view reverse camera, hill start assist, reverse parking sensors and electric parking brake, the Honda Civic is adequately equipped with decent equipment on board.

The traditional virtues of the Honda Civic lineage of having sporty essence in its overall styling and driving dynamics have been well retained in this tenth generation model of the Honda Civic. The model, with a balanced combination of sportiness and practicality, targets equally well to both youth as well as family-oriented buyers.