2013 honda civic mog8/23/2023 The user interface isn’t exactly slick either. The text and the graphics look terrible – everything is blocky and crunchy and looks several generations behind most of the competition. It’s a touch screen but it feels way behind the curve in a number of areas. What could pass as the center stack starts with Honda’s old-school head unit at the top. It always shows a clock, your odometer and the outside temperature on the bottom, and lets you choose between displays of average fuel consumption/fuel range, digital and analog clock and date, and what’s playing on audio system. On the right is a “what’s going on” screen. There is also an instant fuel economy read-out and your fuel gauge. On the left is a large digital speedometer flanked by eco driving bars – they glow green when you’re driving economically, and move to blue if you’re being bad. Above that is an upper “eyebrow” kind of area that houses two display parts. Ahead of you, behind the steering wheel sits a large tach. The way Honda has laid out the dash is a bit of a mish-mash, but in terms of getting the information, it works. It has buttons for cruise control, the media system, phone functions and the driver information screen. I absolutely loved the small-diameter steering wheel – it is manually adjustable and felt near perfect in my hands. They’re heated, the driver’s side is power adjustable (the passenger side is not) and quite comfortable with decent amounts of bolstering. I really liked the seats – they are upholstered in a nice leather with contrasting stitching. Otherwise, the cabin feels spacious enough for a small car. I found the headroom up front to be enough for my 5’10” frame, but not much beyond that – taller passengers will feel the squeeze. You get a good old fashioned key to start the Civic – no push-button here. The fob has remote locking/unlocking and a trunk opener. Of course the amenities are powered – door locks, mirrors and windows. Sadly, the soft-touch plastic panels have fake stitching on them. You’ll find a small swath of soft-touch plastic across the front of the dash in front of your passenger and on top of the door panels – that’s about it. The materials look decent, but are almost all hard plastics. The interior of the Civic has some strange design language going on. The Touring model gets nicely integrated fog lights.įinally, the 17″ rims look really good and the 215/45-sized tires look meaty on this small car. There’s some classy chrome trim under the grille, inside the lower air dam intake and on the rear fascia tying together the tail lights as well. I quite like the cleaner side profile of this little sedan including the handsome kind in the rear side window, and really enjoyed the new rear end styling too. Its outside lines have matured and are more pleasing to my eye, even though they are small changes. But hey, Honda heard the masses and massaged both the interior and exterior quickly, re-releasing the model in record time. I reviewed it, and actually didn’t hate it. Honda released a restyled Civic less than a couple of years ago, which was met with almost universal derision. I drove mostly in the city, with no effort to save fuel, and had a couple of sprints down the highway – and averaged a very reasonable 8.2 L/100 km (29 mpg). The little gaffer sips regular fuel, and Honda says it will use 7.1 L/100 km (33 mpg) in the city and 5.0 L/100 km (47 mpg) on the highway. Though it seems low on numbers, the engine only needs to motivate 2855 pounds of car. The power makes its way through a 5-speed automatic (which is a gear behind almost all the competition – except for the awesome 4-speed automatic Corolla S) and drives the front wheels. As you’d expect, it’s a bit torque-poor, cranking out only 128 lb.ft of torque at 4300 RPM. It still puts out 140 horsepower at 6500 RPM. Honda’s tried, proven and somewhat tired 1.8-litre inline-4 sits side-saddle. You won’t find anything new, or frankly exciting here. So consider this a fully-loaded Civic sedan, unless you need the sportiness that comes with the Si. As a matter of fact, the Touring is so top-of-the-heap, there are no options available for it. I had the top-of-the-heap Touring model, eclipsed only by the high-zoot Si model. The 2013 Civic sedan starts at a paltry $15,440, but that’s not the one I had here. Excellent time to review it then, I’d say. Why am I mentioning timing in a car review? Because each month, I receive month-end reporting from all the car manufacturers, and in March 2013, the Honda Civic surged to the top of the list. Sometimes, although in my case it’s all luck, I love timing.
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