Joe Bruzek for cars.com this is the 2013 Honda Civic
now this the Civic that should have came out in 2012 Honda Civic was
all new the 2012 was in a bad car just kind of boring
it didn't have a real edge in value like a civics had previously
hunter went back to the drawing board and significantly change the car
inside and how it underneath let's take a look at what they change in if they
pull that off
Honda really outdid itself funny inside
where there are significant standard features and the base model
now with destination you're looking about the high eighteen thousand dollar
range
for an LX which is now the base trim level
self for a hundred and sixty dollars more than last year
you get a backup camera blue to
bluetooth streaming audio and numerous advance
smartphone integrations if your phones compatible that its life
andorra streaming internet radio and
text message features where a text message for Reid out loud through the
car stereo
I guess at your phone has to be compatible even though these are higher
and features
in a compact car as standard equipment they're not done
shabbily executed very nicely the backup camera has very high quality is this
play
but it doesn't have backup sensors
for guidance lines that change with the steering wheel
now the rest to the high-tech features like smartphone integration with Pandora
and a text messaging
those also work very well and
it's too easy to think up your phone to do that and not a lot of cars
make it as easy as the Honda hers comfortably 2013 106
along with the new features there are significant changes
in how the interior looks there's new higher-quality materials and an overall
for cohesive work then for now have a
really focused attention on the center stack area this is all new
every button is new it's more stylized and have higher quality
Pacific Safety has also been increased with
new front subframe that job better protection front-end collisions and it's
paid off because
stuff 2013 civic ferns the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's most
prestigious
Safety Award and that's their top Safety Pick plus
which includes the small front overlap test which is proving very difficult for
a lot of cars fast
100 a great job classing up
the front and rear styling you can see more about what's changing our 2012 Los
Angeles
Auto Show video but this one area that just doesn't quite match the rest the
styling commits the wheel cover
on the base LX it doesn't do a good job of hiding
ugly steel wheel behind if now the other trim levels get
alloy wheels up this is a an easy change
was redesigned 2012 specific lost a lot of its
fun to drive character now Honda in to put that back into the Civic for 2013
with an all-new suspension
and while this one isn't quite as fun to drivers possible as the mazda3
for Ford Focus or Dodge Dart it is much better control
been 2012 where the 2012 with a lien
really badly in corners the 2013
has initial lean and then it settles really quickly
and it's much more composed and much more fun to drive that the 2012
the 2013 is much quieter than the 2012
on highways fires when did Road nice and that's on purpose
I'm that had it thicker glass up front and numerous
sound absorption materials around the cabin
in the back quiet the highway
when nice and it works itself much quieter
experience and more pleasant to drive at sixty seventy miles an hour
2013 Civic is the same great
big comeback are on the inside especially in the back with its flat for
with no hope for exhaust that these dimensions are unchanged from 2012
now fully loaded with value in style the 2013 Civic is back
a top of its game ready to take on the best in the segment