it's time for show off Sunday where everyone has a chance to show off their
own car and here's this week's winner, thanks for the intro here we have my
tenth generation 1.5 turbo Civic Sport the 5 doors of exports manufactured in
the UK and for the European market at least it has four engine choices you can
get a 1 liter turbo that puts her around about 130 brake a 1.5 turbo which this
is which puts so Rowan about 180 brake there's also a 2-liter turbo variant but
that's only for the Type R and there's also a 1.6 diesel available as well and
even though the 10th generation is a global platform engine availability
varies from region to region and as far as I'm aware the 1 liter is not
available in the North American market whereas some Asian markets don't have
turbo engines at all they're running on think 1.6 and 1.8 naturally aspirated
engines so there are variants even though as a global model the Civic sport
which is this one comes with black alloy is well liked and silver alloys they're
just quite dirty black trim along the side here styling is basically one of
the reasons I bought this car now a lot of people hate on the styling of this
car but I think it's a love-hate situation and and I'm leaning towards
love on this one and of course because I bought it the reason I went for another
Honda after owning two previous ones and one being an accord the other one being
a generation Civic was purely the reliability of them the driving feel and
the equipment that comes a standard in comparison to other manufacturers for
example and the 1.5 variant in the UK the sport is the base model even though
it's not the base model Civic but it does come with adaptive cruise control
LED headlights ,android or apple carplay which I'll show in a
second yeah dual climate control as well most other manufacturers high-end
manufacturers would probably 50 % of those as optional
one feature actually quite like about the car as well is the thought to small
things and attention to detail essentially now it doesn't have a
traditional partial parcel shelf it has this mechanism that you can fold back
and completely remove just leaving the small piece of plastic with the fabric
inside now if you're open about and you've got something large to load
generally with a traditional parcel shelf you're gonna have to find
somewhere to put that whereas this can just slide under a chair in the front or
well I don't think you can fit it in your pocket you can either opt for an
automatic CVT or 6-speed manual gearbox I went for the six-speed manual and like
the other models of Honda's that I've owned the gear changes are fairly smooth
and precise when stopping a red light and putting the current in neutral the
stop start will kick in to see if you'll then pressing the clutch will
restart the engine so by the time you put into first again it's ready to go it
takes literally about half a second to a second to restart that engine
with this being the one point 580 break model
it's absolutely effortless there's not dispute on slut roads and to join
fast-moving traffic
when merging with traffic changing lanes the visibility in this car is pretty
good and there's very few blind spots so generally changing lanes in marriage and
can be done with confidence once on the motorway simple three button presses
will activate the adaptive cruise control and winky persist then keep a
preset distance that the driver can select from the car in front then adjust
the speed is needed if the traffic slows down there's also a collision avoidance
system built help with braking if the card front suddenly breaks harder
somebody pulls it and quite close to you and from sport model comes with a three
button flip key for opening start in the car keyless entry and keyless start is
available in new civics however I would if needed to go for the Sport Plus trim
level rather than the sports trim two new features for me though are the
reversing camera seen here and the ability to have the handbrake automatic
who automatically release using the brake hold button that'll show closely
shortly as with the other Honda's I've owned as
well ended up going for the fabric seats rather than the leather seats and
although they aren't heated they're fully adjustable and very comfortable
just like my older Honda Accord and my if 8th generation Civic as well car also
features electric folding heated mirrors which can be turned on by putting the
rear here and as a combination button from domestic and the climate control is
controlled through the infotainment system by pressing that button the
infotainment system in the car as well is pretty good
it features apple carplay Android oil has FM AM and DAB radio it doesn't
feature a CD player however with the popularity of music
streaming services and I don't think it's really necessary to have that in a
car these days I can't remember the last time I personally used a CD in a car
each time the system's put on you have to accept the terms of conditions so
you're not going to be distracted while driving and all that sort of stuff
apart from that quick tap in and this is apple carplay
the main instrument cluster and as a TFT screen so it actually gives a good bit
of flexibility and go into the system and basically change what you want it
display so for example there we have in turbo boost power for when you're
driving a compass and traffic sign recognition and which is actually always
on the top left but that just makes it more prominent if you want it
one thing I'm still trying to get used to is not having a traditional handbrake
but rather having the ebrake the button brake I'm not personally a fan of it I'm
sure I'll get used to eventually however it seems to be the way that most cars
are going these days so it's not really something I can complain about I suppose
the Eco mode on the car as well it's supposed to give you better fuel economy
while driving around the town however when all it seems to really do is sort
of limit the acceleration of the car when you're pressing the accelerator
cruising on the motorway it's a 70 mile an hour it doesn't well personally I've
now found it to provide any sort of gains maybe some lemonade ones there's
also auto start-stop in this car and which can be disabled but as always
enabled when you start the car but you can disable it each time by pressing the
button here and there's also the very cold button the brake hold is
essentially he'll assist every time you stop it will apply or keep the foot
brake applied until you move off again quite handy
another small attention to detail will be the armrest which can be pushed back
for access to storage area also pulled up somehow there we go and the
cupholders stack so you can have more room inside there so rather than have a
look at the one cup holder stacked on top of the other that can come out
possibly there we go and you can have two cupholders in there I've noted I
missed a few features of the car but I think I've gone on long enough
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