How to Upload a Picture to 2013 Honda Civic

Honda is getting close to existence on a roll, post-obit the introduction of the redesigned 2013 Accord sedan and coupe, which we like very much indeed. The mid-size duo are massively improved over their immediate forebears, by and large thanks to a rash of modest, incremental changes that managed to bring back the Accord'due south trademark fun-to-bulldoze dynamics that were lost in the model's previous overhaul. But to be on a coil, Honda needs to follow the Accordance with a second act, and the updated 2013 Civic sedan and coupe might just be the company's next momentum-booster.

But await, you inquire—didn't Honda just introduce an all-new Borough for 2012? Yup, merely the new compact failed to set the enthusiast and critical printing (including u.s.) on fire; and the Honda paled confronting a fresh wave of actress-proficient small-auto competitors like the latest (and 10Best award–winning) Ford Focus, the Chevrolet Cruze, and the Mazda 3. Apparently Honda recognized the opportunity information technology missed with its latest Borough, because it went straight back to the drawing lath and punted a hurried yet comprehensive update to the tiptop of the internal priority listing. The event is the impressively worked-over 2013 Civic sedan.

Familiar Wait, Fresh Drawers

The changes Honda implemented for 2013 would make for a suitable typical mid-cycle model update, so their being incorporated within but a single model yr is all the more surprising. Curiously, merely the sedan benefits from cosmetic updates—a new hood, forepart fascia, headlights, trunk, and taillights—only if this sheetmetal segregation had annihilation to do with a tight budget, we won't fault Honda'south money allocation. That'south because every Civic sedan and coupe, from the entry-level LX trim level all the way up to the range-topping hybrid, gets a freshened interior, chassis, and torso structure. Critically, the changes address several of the key complaints we had with the 2012 model, including its flaccid treatment, lackluster cabin materials, and unrefined interior noise.

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Starting with the Borough'due south body structure, the forepart floor, the side sills, the A-pillars, the upper wheel housings, and the front bumper all have been tweaked for additional stiffness. The company says that 55 per centum of the motorcar'south trunk is made up of high-strength steel, which is the aforementioned effigy it quoted for the 2012 model. Honda claims the revised structure works in concert with a retuned break to deliver improve driving dynamics than before; in that location are stiffer springs forepart and rear, firmer rear bushings, equally well as thicker forepart and rear roll confined. A revised electronic power-steering rack operates with less friction and gets a quicker ratio, and Honda besides fitted larger 11.1-inch front restriction rotors (up 0.viii inch in diameter) to automated-equipped, gas-powered, non-Si Civics.

The Civic's chassis and body revisions are juxtaposed by bear-over powertrains. Regular Borough models and the HF are powered past the same 140-hp, 1.viii-liter four-cylinder paired with either a five-speed manual or automatic transmission as last year, while the Si twins get the same 201-hp, 2.4-liter iv/six-speed manual setup. The hybrid again gets a one.5-liter iv paired with an electrical motor (skillful for a combined 110 hp) that bolt up to a CVT, and the Natural Gas still uses a 110-hp, ane.8-liter four designed to run on, you guessed it, compressed natural gas. (For more than on the Natural Gas, bank check out our full test of a 2012.) EPA-rated fuel economy beyond the board holds steady, with manual-equipped base cars netting 28 mpg in the metropolis and 36 on the highway; automatic versions become 28/39 mpg. The HF is good for 29/41, the hybrid an impressive 44/44, and the Natural Gas is rated for 27/38. The sporty Si duo chugs gas at a less-stellar rate of 22/31 mpg.

Interior Design—Present and Accounted For

Inside, the Civic's unconventionally styled dashboard gets slightly less unconventional-looking, just, more critical, it receives improved materials and assembly. The 2012 model's dashboard featured myriad cut-lines that seemed to crisscross the instrument panel at random, as if the engineers got a few beers deep before deciding how to intermission upwards the dash'south expanse of hard plastic. The 2013-spec dash looks to be a far more cohesive-looking unit of measurement. The passenger-side air vents were reshaped into a pair of handsome rectangles, while the center stack gets a assuming new foursquare outline that flows into the higher of the Civic'southward stacked instrument cluster binnacles.

MARC URBANO, THE MANUFACTURER

There are more soft-touch on materials employed across the dashboard and door panels, which as well were worked over for a slightly fresher look. Finally, the cabin's classiness level gets a major upgrade in the form of a new available color: blackness. Besides offering better-looking environs for drivers and passengers akin, the 2013 Civic besides should also exist a quieter steed to ride. Honda's efforts to quell the 2012 motorcar'south unrefined NVH characteristics include a stiffer front subframe, thicker windshield and front-side window drinking glass, and boosted soundproofing in the dashboard, the doors, the floor, and the trunk.

Choice Choices

Every 2012 Civic variation save for the entry-level DX sedan and coupe carry over to 2013. The Threescore trim level becomes the lowest Civic on the totem pole, followed past the EX, EX-Fifty, sporty Si, and fuel-frugal hybrid. The non-hybrid HF fuel-economy special returns, equally does the Civic Natural Gas model. There's more than standard equipment than last year for all models, including a fill-in camera, Bluetooth audio and phone connectivity, outside temperature gauge, and a sliding center-console armrest. Cheers to the DX'south departure, every Civic now gets a colour i-MID dashboard information screen and steering-wheel-mounted sound controls. (Both items were standard on the 2012 Civic LX, but now Honda can say every model gets them.)

There are a few new technology features for the Borough, as well. The hybrid version comes standard with forward-collision alert and lane-divergence alarm systems; neither system actively intervenes for the commuter in an emergency, just fifty-fifty still, the alert systems are firsts in the U.S. compact segment. The navigation arrangement—available on EX, EX-50, hybrid, and Natural Gas models—inherits a multi-view backup camera.

MARC URBANO, THE MANUFACTURER

Despite the extent of the 2013 Civic's overhaul, Honda kept the yr-over-twelvemonth price increase in check. The company says prices are upward only $160 over last twelvemonth across the line. The LX coupe starts at $18,755, with the sedan ringing in at $18,955; the four-door is available at present, with the 2-door arriving adjacent month. The Si coupe starts at $23,305, while the sedan commands an additional $200; the ii-door Si hits dealerships in December, followed by the sedan in January. The hybrid arrives around the aforementioned fourth dimension and will cost $25,150; buyers looking for the HF's less-expensive make of fuel-thrift will have to wait until February, when they'll have to shell out $twenty,555. For natural-gas-peckish buyers in the 37 states the Civic Natural Gas is bachelor in, $27,255 brings one home first adjacent month.

We'll have to wait until we can get behind the wheel of this new, new Borough to judge the success of Honda's changes, only on paper the transformation seems fruitful. If the visitor put the same people who worked on the new Accord behind this redesign, in that location may be promise still for the Honda driving experience (as tin be found in the 2013 Accordance 2.iv manual) we so fondly remember from only a few years agone.