Test Drive Honda Civic Sedan since 2012 Sedan
Machine for pleasant life
Drink by car, overpilling gas pedal to the floor, like many - the main thing so that the car allows and reacting, respectively.True, for someone to drive means the first to leave the intersection, but for someone - to rush at speeds under 200 km / h along a magnificent country road, scattering the counter-car vehicles.
Philip Berezin Chief editor
What is me for? Perhaps the fact that the new generation of Civic is suitable, rather, the first category of Likhach. I would call the Japanese with the optimal urban driver (the word racing is also suitable) by car, because it allows you to enjoy the speed without going beyond the limits of the indicators on the dashboard. And thank God!
Civic will meet the expectations of those who wish to receive pleasant emotions from driving in the first meters of the way. A sharp steering wheel, wonderful acceleration - just have time to fix changes in the running numbers on the instrument panel: Once or two - and there are already numbers 60-70; Plus, a successful, moderately aggressive brakes, a comfortable sports landing, did you want this? Get! Add extraordinary spatial and color solutions to the center console and the instrument panel - and it will neither give either a space computer toy.
In general, the first impression from the new Japanese from Honda is the most pleasant. And it is not surprising that all who managed to sit on the driver's or on a passenger seat, welcomed the start of the movement together: Wow!.
True, after the first aggressive meters, our Civic somehow blurted out. In any case, in the future, acceleration is not so impressed. But the pleasure of managing the smaller did not become: sharp reactions, excellent gravity of the steering wheel at speed, confident brazing in Doro GU - all this is evident.
But for excellent handling you have to pay. In our case, a rigid suspension, which responds significantly to most road irregularities, forcing the heart to shrink after especially tangible blows. Those who plan to purchase a new Japanese need to be remembered that this is a car with quite low (seems to be about 14 cm) road lumen.
In general, the new Civic is impossible to characterize as a definitely female or typical male car: he can delight anyone. And since the machine for all cases of life of the Japanese can not be called, I want to characterize his car for a pleasant life.
Alexander Korobchenko REVIEWER
But we are waiting - they found me - that the next, the eighth generation, will be no less sporting than predecessors from the nineties. This was told by a manager of one of the Honda salons of the year and a half ago. Then we agreed with him that the seventh generation could be a little more likely yes, after a personal acquaintance with the new Sivik, doubts disappeared. I made sure that the forecast of the manager came true: it seemed to me that Civic had a little lack of overclocking dynamics after 70 km / h, but before this mark he behaved cheerfully and assert. And on handling, it is probably the leader among the front-wheel drive sedans of the golf class!
Externally, Civic left a pleasant impression: strict classic forms that have come, it seems from the fifth generation, quite peacefully get along with fresh ideas and lines. In the front, it resembles a reduced chord: with a low and wide face, severely bent upside the corners of the headlight and borrowed from the older relative with the radiator grille. The car has become noticeably lower and wider than the previous generation, while significantly adding in the front and rear kolas.
Rear view is more concise: it is possible to distinguish a new Civic from the previous one, it is possible for spectacular optics - 4 red circles inscribed in 2 trapezoid blocks. Interior - under the appearance: bright and functional. Perhaps the brightest and non-trivial in its class and even the segment above. What is one design of the dashboard with gradient blue-white background in the center of the tachometer! The tachometer itself, by the way, is the only round figure in the panel. An electronic speedometer, for example, is right above it - at the next level of the instrument scene. The 3-spoke steering wheel was perfect in the interior, and most importantly, it is conveniently lying in his hands due to thickening in the sports zones of ten and two hours.
Honda sedan with a 1.8-liter engine and a machine gun rather thanks on the first two transmissions, but then its acceleration loses its former rapidness. The mechanical box could correct the position: on the passport, overclocking up to 100 km / h with a 6-speed handle requires one and a half seconds less - 9.1 s! Well, let: Honda Civic, even having a 1.8-liter motor, is ready to move with many two-liter cars. Especially in dynamic movements around the city: without rolls, screwed into turns and famously rearrangement from a number in a row. This he knows how!
If you follow my example and transfer behind the wheel of Civic, leaving the chair (not the most important, by the way) sedan, Honda will make it look for the road with the maximum amount of bends and turns. Civic simply adores maneuvers: snakes, turns, rebuilding the suspension almost does not allow the body to roll even in marginal turns: in a series of aggregates, where, it seems, the sedan must fall on the outside wheel, the car surprises its stability. Lead at the speed of the steering wheel quickly and accurately transmits information wheels. At the same time, about the interception of the steering wheel simply forget: sensitive and sharp, it requires minimal deviation so that Civic dived in the desired side.
Breed! Addiction to active ride at Honda in the blood, and Sivik - a bright confirmation. He will appreciate the men and women. Head - to perceive moving from point A to point in as a way to obtain a mass of pleasures that a new Civic is ready to provide full!
Margarita Muradova REVIEWER
Conversations about New Sivique have long heated my curiosity. She presented in the fall in LenExpo, futuristic hatchback did not dislike and added oil into the fire: it was not wait to be driving as soon as possible. And wait for a long time - as well as July: whole eternity. Therefore, when the case has introduced to try in the seventh generation sedan case, I agreed without thinking.
Is there a new Sivique? Perhaps yes, but he did not cause me stormy delight. Harmonious body forms; A profile that resembles the younger brother Honda Accord - all qualitatively, modern, but still without the madness of the hatchback. From the driver's seat, the view is more interesting: the original low dashboard, space steering wheel, numbers and other navigation information with a pleasant eye blue backlight.
The dashboard is divided into two parts. The bottom is the original tachometer, and in the upper - digital speedometer. Despite the unusual location, the devices are read well. The remaining control buttons are conveniently located - in the literal sense of the word, at hand. With a rather low landing, good visibility has been preserved. It also should also be noted an additional front door rack forming a small window. In my opinion, the controversial decision: visits it does not interfere, but on a general background it looks like an alien element.
Seat with deep lateral support setting up a ride at the sports manner. True, the upholstery seemed pretty old-fashioned: the rear seats look like a teddy sofa, doomed to always look untidy, collecting all the dust and all sorts of little things. And who shook him here? In general, how much the front of the cabin looks modern, so the rear half of the archaic. Well, let's see what this time machine is in motion.
We got a car with a 140-power engine and an automatic transmission, in the EXECUTIVE AT configuration. An informative steering wheel provides close connection with the track. The machine adequately reacts to the turns of the steering wheel, but there is no nervousness, and it is impossible to be called sharp. The sedan holds the road perfectly, easily enters the rotation 180 degrees. Security systems are in constant combat readiness. With a sharp braking, ABS conscientiously works, stopping the car almost immediately. Despite the declared sport, the suspension, contrary to expectations, seemed too soft.
By pressing the pedal of the accelerator, you feel how the car confidently picks up speed, but without a characteristic jerk, quite slowly and smoothly. In part, this can be written off on an automatic box. Even when switching the gearbox lever to the S - manual control mode of the machine with the help of steering wheel petals - the drive does not work. On the contrary: after that the car began, as it seemed to me, even thoughtfully. I hope that on the handle of the seventh Sivik will be more fun.
Summarizing all of the above, it can be said that the acquaintance with the sedan went smoothly, without much enthusiasm. Honda always leaves good impressions. Waiting for a hatchback!
A source: Magazine "Wheels" [№104 / 2006]
