The Civic is the first truly global model car in Honda's history, and has sold more than 20 million units in the past 40 years, making it one of the top five cars sold in the world. In North America, the Civic has long been the undisputed leader in the compact car segment, with 40% of the world's Civics being bought by Americans.

 

The 8th-generation Civic launched in 2006 was once very popular in the Chinese market, but the 9th-generation Civic is a sunken generation, so the 10th-generation Civic is a completely facelifted car, it is actually designed and developed by American designers for the American market, completely designed and developed in the United States with the Honda logo of an American car, this car was released in the United States at the end of 2015, Dongfeng Honda introduced it to the Chinese market in 2016.

 

The biggest highlight of this generation of Civic is the powertrain, although not as revolutionary as the Corolla's dual-engine power, Honda's Earth Dream 1.5T turbocharged engine is one of the best small-displacement turbo engines on the planet. The new Honda L15B engine not only makes the Civic the fastest family car in its class (its CVT version accelerates from 0 to 100 km in 7.2 seconds), but it is also the most fuel-efficient car with a maximum thermal efficiency of an astonishing 38 percent, surpassing the Toyota 8AR-FTS 2.0-liter inline-four turbocharged engine and the Toyota 8NR-FTS 1.2-liter inline-four-cylinder turbocharged engine ( The maximum thermal efficiency of both is 36.2%), becoming the new world first.

 

While pursuing high power, Honda still attaches great importance to the smoothness of power delivery, this engine not only uses smaller turbine blades to avoid the abruptness of turbo intervention, but also still chooses a CVT gearbox to match it, rather than using the popular turbocharged dual-clutch power combination on the market, so the driving experience of the Civic is very close to that of a large-displacement naturally aspirated engine. Traditional CVT transmissions are difficult to cope with large torque, so they can generally only be used with small-displacement naturally aspirated engines, but the Civic is equipped with this Honda-produced CVT transmission to solve this problem, and this gearbox due to its special calibration, even if the oil is off, the engine speed will not swing up and down, which can be called designed for Honda fans who love high speeds. If you need a decisive, sustained acceleration effort, it does the same thing as an AT gearbox, except that there's no sense of impact like shifting.

 

The Civic uses a steering system called "DPA-EPS Variable Gear Ratio", which has the ability to change the steering ratio in addition to the usual steering force that varies with the vehicle speed. At low speeds, not only does the steering feel light, but the steering wheel can complete a relatively large steering angle with only a small turn, and at high speeds, the steering wheel not only becomes more "heavy", but also the amplitude of steering needs to increase. This steering system is not only class-leading in terms of technology, but its tuning is also very linear and smooth, making it extremely "handy" in use.

 

However, the Civic has never been a performance car, but a family sedan with sporty characteristics, and this generation has gone too far in the direction of sportiness, and it is difficult to balance family comfort: despite the use of silent tires that sacrifice power performance, its cabin noise is still on the high side, the low seats are not easy to get in and out, the lack of lumbar support adjustment is also one of the shortcomings, and the absence of the headrest of the rear middle seat is inexplicable...... Cars in this class often require trade-offs in handling and suitability, but if you have no hobby of driving and your car environment is basically limited to commuting at 40KM per hour, why buy a Civic?

 

In terms of applicability, the Civic also has a minus point is its full-touch central control system, Honda has spared no effort to promote this system, but its design has a lot to debatable, such as changing the air conditioning control to touch, although it looks beautiful, but it is actually easy to distract the driver.

 

Judging from the big data of all models, Honda is only slightly inferior to Toyota in terms of quality and reliability, but the durability and reliability of Honda's engine even surpasses Toyota. Civic is a "not bad" typical Honda car, more than ten years old Civic is also difficult to find any high-incidence faults, but the previous generation of Civic has become a victim of the "Takata airbag incident", Honda is currently recalling all Honda cars installed with Takata airbags, this is probably the biggest quality scandal Honda has experienced in recent years, fortunately, Takata is no longer the 10th generation Civic airbag supplier. But the "thin paint" complained by the Chinese has not wronged Honda, according to the long-term statistics of American consumer reports, the only high-incidence "failure" of Civic cars more than 5 years old is in the body paint.

 

思域可能是中国人在安全性方面误解最深的Car，它在国内长期被作为“Japan车不安全”的代表，但它其实是你在这个级别能买到的最安全的车之一。在2006~2016年的IIHS测试中，该车型所有指标（正面碰撞、侧面碰撞、小面积正面碰撞、车顶测试、头枕&座椅）均获最高级评价，是IIHS最高安全等级“TSP+”紧凑型车之一。

 

However, due to Dongfeng Honda's huge sales of CR-V and XR-V, the Civic is still suffering from a long-term production capacity shortage. That's probably the biggest problem with this car at the moment: it's not easy to buy it, with a markup or a long wait.

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