The Full Euro: Honda Civic i-DTEC Diesel Review

– Engineering timelines are longer than those of media scandals, which has given Honda a predicament with its all-new i-DTEC diesel engine. The company’s decision to develop a next-generation ultra-clean turbo-diesel was made well before Volkswagen was caught getting its cheat on, but the finished 1.6-liter inline-four reviewed here in the Honda Civic is reaching its […]

Honda turns a Civic Type R windshield into a video game

Honda released a video showcasing the head-to-head race between pro gamer Peter “the SLAPtrain” Jeankins and IndyCar driver Graham Rahal. Both racers used a 2018 Honda Civic Type R, but one car was real while the other existed only in the digital reality of Forza 7. The real Type R was equipped with a “mixed-reality” […]

Junkyard Gem: 1989 Honda Civic Wagon

The Civic was king of its domain in the late 1980s, with every single new one flying out of American Honda showrooms so quickly (and generally priced well above MSRP) that certain corporate managers got rich by shaking down inventory-starved dealerships. The fourth-generation Civic wagon wasn’t sold in quite the numbers of its hatchback or […]

The 2019 Honda Insight Is a Civic Hybrid by Another Name

– Honda’s hybrid history started with the Insight in the late 1990s, which beat the Toyota Prius to the U.S. market by a few months and was originally rated at 70 mpg by the EPA. The Insight transformed from a tiny, teardrop-shaped two-door in its first generation to a Prius-shaped four-door in its second generation, […]

2016 Honda Civic Sedan – Long-Term Road Test Review

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