All Honda Civic reviews

"More powerful, more spacious, cleaner and less thirsty than its predecessor, the Civic Hybrid is the current state of the art in responsible motoring"

It's taken some time but the viable hybrid car is finally with us. Until fairly recently hybrids were bought by publicity seekers or sanctimonious politicians. Real people were priced out of the market by fledgling technology that often proved impractical and unreliable. That's no longer the case and cars like Honda's Civic Hybrid now of...

"The Civic is instantly striking in a way that few family hatches ever achieve"

It's not too often a car is launched that, at a stroke, manages to make all of its rivals look way behind the curve. This however, is what Honda have managed with their latest Civic. This car marks a new generation of family hatches.

In times past, despite the success of the excellent Type-R version, the rest of the Civic range would rarely appear on the radar of anybody under fifty years old. Majoring...

"The Honda Civic's concept car looks and 1980s sci-fi interior are always going to be the big talking points"

You know those TV clips from the 1950s where 'experts' predicted how people would be living in the distant year 2000? Families lounged around in aluminium foil jumpsuits, goldfish bowls on their heads, being served meals in pill form by robots that resembled upturned chrome dustbins. This vision bore little resemblance to what most of us were actually doing at the turn of the ce...

This Civic range finally put to rest the old memories of Civics being tiny starter cars of little sophistication. The seventh generation Civic was superbly engineered, innovative in design and rightly popular with British buyers. Honda did almost everything right. There was a family friendly five-door, a slightly more rakish three-door and a flagship Type-R sports model that quickly deposed the Renaultsport Clio 172 as the hot hatch of choice. The only slight fly in the ointment was the woefu...

This Civic range finally put to rest the old memories of Civics being tiny starter cars of little sophistication. The seventh generation Civic was superbly engineered, innovative in design and rightly popular with British buyers. Honda did almost everything right. There was a family friendly five-door, a slightly more rakish three-door and a flagship Type-R sports model that quickly deposed the Renaultsport Clio 172 as the hot hatch of choice. The only slight fly in the ointment was the woefu...

This Civic range finally put to rest the old memories of Civics being tiny starter cars of little sophistication. The seventh generation Civic was superbly engineered, innovative in design and rightly popular with British buyers. Honda did almost everything right. There was a family friendly five-door, a slightly more rakish three-door and a flagship Type-R sports model that quickly deposed the Renaultsport Clio 172 as the hot hatch of choice. The only slight fly in the ointment was the woefu...

This Civic range finally put to rest the old memories of Civics being tiny starter cars of little sophistication. The seventh generation Civic was superbly engineered, innovative in design and rightly popular with British buyers. Honda did almost everything right. There was a family friendly five-door, a slightly more rakish three-door and a flagship Type-R sports model that quickly deposed the Renaultsport Clio 172 as the hot hatch of choice. The only slight fly in the ointment was the woefu...