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2012 Honda Civic exposed
By Bertrand Iroegbu
Dated: Oct 11, 2010
CAR Middle East has done it again – we’re the first ones in the world to bring you the first pictures of thenext generation of the Civic sedan, completely naked of all camouflage!
We snapped these twin silver prototypes during a spell of early morning hot weather testing. Apart from afew missing ‘H’ badges, this is the Civic you can expect to see in UAE showrooms next year. As ourpictures show, it’s very similar in dimensions to the existing GCC model with a comparable midsection; theglasshouse, doors and wing mirrors look to be unchanged. The front fascia is where the big news is – gone are the old model’s undulating curves over pronouncedarches and drooping headlamps, replaced by a sharper, wedgier front end and what looks to be a widerlower air intake. Optional foglight cutouts are on either side, disguised by heavy lashings of pesky silvergaffer tape. That tape is also present at the base of the A-pillar and the C-pillar as well over the rearbumper, so we suspect there may be a few stylistic surprises yet to come. Out front, the earlier striking chrome moustache framing the central Honda emblem is now a fairly genericthree-bar grille, while the angular headlamps look to be the same as the ones found on US market models.Note the character line that starts from the end of the front lights, spears off and extends all the way to thearrow-shaped rear cluster. The latter has lost its former GT-R-ish four circular brake lamps in favour of asquishy hexagonal look that’s vaguely reminiscent of its baby City brother. A slim, almost vestigial spoilercaps the pert rear end. The unique “folding-hands” wiper arrangement looks to have been retained atop the steeply raked – andvast, start saving up for tint folks! – windshield, but the old printed antenna seems to have been given theheave-ho in favour of a traditional (and probably cheaper) stubby aerial mounted BMW-style above the rearwindshield. Suitably-chunky 16-inch five –spoke alloys round off the major exterior changes. Inside, the two-tier dashboard has been retained, raked even more steeply toward the driver. The steeringwheel is still a three-spoke affair but it now sports two four way controllers on each side instead of theearlier toggles. Gone are the knob-based temperature and fanspeed controls, with a slew of buttons takingtheir place. That’s below what looks like a double-DIN touch-based navigation system – tuners of the worldrejoice, your favourite rolling music platform still lives. On the far left of the dashboard, you’ll notice a single, very large green button that says “Econ”. Onoverseas models, pressing this switch sets the engine, transmission and cooling functions to maximumefficiency, although judging by our hot climes, it’s unlikely to get much use here. We didn’t get a chance tolook under the hood, but our sources suggest that the engine being tested is a 1.5 litre unit, which if true issignificantly smaller than the existing 1.8 140bhp one. Hello fuel efficiency, goodbye acceleration. Overall, outside of the few details we couldn’t discern, it looks to be a blander, more generic version of acar that should be at the very heartland of Honda thinking. The earlier, space-age Civic landed like anatomic bomb in the compact car market, sending arch-rivals like Toyota and Nissan scurrying back to thedrawing board to bring out more exciting-looking sedans. Now Honda looks to be losing faith in its daring design direction, delivering a cheese-wedge sedan thatcould easily be mistaken for – whisper it – one of the equally wedgy Koreans that are flooding out of South
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East Asia. Or perhaps it’s merely a reflection of these austere times where sobriety is a virtue. Either way:we want our old Honda back.
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