How Good Is The Latest Honda Civic?

The latest Civic from Honda may be one of their future classics, just like the EG3.

Really, how good is the latest Civic?  Before, I would have never really considered getting one.  After all, I have sports car tastes and prefer the engine placement, behind me.  If I can’t have that, I want something unique details about my car.  Even my Subaru has a turbo-boxer four-cylinder with all-wheel-drive.  That definitely counts for something. I don’t want another front-wheel-drive, front-engined car, do I?

It turns out, I do.  It wasn’t that long ago that I wrote about my interest in the Civic Touring.  The latest four-door hatchback prototype, which is being revealed at the Geneva International Motor Show, looks absolutely fantastic.  Even the sedan model, available in the United States, looks strikingly similar to a smaller Audi A7.

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Now that the Civic Touring is available with a

turbocharged four-cylinder and a manual transmission

, the idea changed in my mind.  It’s no longer just a “daily driver” in my mind.  It is now, “a potential BTCC car.”  Huge difference right?  Well, a turbo and a manual transmission will do that, at least with my approach to cars.  A couple of lower flics on the front bumper and a subtle rear spoiler, plus one on the wheels, and a slightly lowered suspension would make it look like a BTCC car, amirite?

With a turbocharged four-cylinder engine, there is some potential flexibility with expanding the output.  Our own editor, Paulo Acoba wrote about how a simple intake added 29 horsepower and 25-lb.ft. of torque.  Imagine what an exhaust and proper chip tune could change the parameters to?

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The Geneva Motor Show is simply overwhelming with supercars and hypercars, from the Bugatti Chiron to the Koenigsegg Agera.

But, there are some of us with a different budget, that want to have fun too.  One way to do it?  Purchasing the latest Honda Civic.  It can recharge the enthusiast’s heart to modify cars from a simple chassis, and turn the creation into something truly unique, just like the EP3’s of the past.