Test Drive Honda Civic Sedan since 2012 Sedan

EQUILIBRIUM

Troika three bills
Sedan. How much in this word dear and pleasant to our ear and look! First, the silhouette is more equilibrium, secondly, there are always four doors and a big trunk.
Thirdly, yes, just the strength of the habit always draws an imaginary auto-pipe. In this, we are at the same time. Big country big cars. Even if in fact they are compact class.

Who is something
Volkswagen Jetta.
Price of a tested car $ 30 159
Max. Power 150 liters. With. at 6000 rpm.
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b202 km / h
Acceleration 0-100 km / h 89 s
Honda Civic
Price of a car tested $ 20,900
Max. Power 140 liters. With. at 6300 rpm.
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b200 km / h
Acceleration 0-100 km / h 10.9 s
Volvo S40.
Price of a tested car $ 49 741
Max. Power 170 liters. With. at 6000 rpm.
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b215 km / h
Acceleration 0-100 km / h 89 s

Sales of the updated Honda Civic began on April 15. This car clearly does not look like anyone, climbing and always causes interest in people who love and know how to light. We picked up with a relatively fresh VW Jetta, to a no less responding premium brand criteria. Of our Trinity, only Volvo S40 has not been exchanged for all sorts of hatch-becks. Economic Swedes are aimed at cars, where the inlet / out of passengers and the luggage deposit / removal is carried out separately.
Partly, because of the soils of heat in winter through the open fifth door.
 
Famous as Jetta (it is Vento, she is Bora) essentially Golf with the trunk turned out to be extremely proportionate and pretty. Golf is youth, pressure and style in every little thing. Jetta is the same style in a calmer interpretation. Golf and Jetta almost like Yin and Yang. In addition, when a quick glance, Jetta can easily be taken for the flagship of the VW Passat brand. This is especially true to machines of radical black.
 
Honda Civic demonstrates a fundamentally different approach to different types of body bodies of one model. Hatchback and sedan are absolutely not like each other. However, futuristic design was fully reflected in the forms and solutions of the salon of both machines.
 
Through the open door, the Honda offers a view of a not panel of instruments of a compact urban car, but at a minimum, to the post of control of the microsatar of the local message.
Honda devices are divided into two groups. The tachometer with the odometer scale and the position of the KP selector is viewed through the rim of the steering wheel, and the numbers of speed and gasoline with the temperature are put into a separate unit to the top. Nearby, on the part deployed to the driver, highly released handles and climate buttons fit. On the one hand, it is convenient (do not miss), on the other, too deliberately exhibited twists, the perception of the pilot and navigator halves. It is exacerbated by multiple blowing deflectors. Driver of occimized air relies twice as much?
 
The gear selector is minivanic on his own cup holder and feel very good. But at the first touch, two failed defects were revealed. First, instead of moving back and forth, you have to draw them almost a third of the circumference in a small radius. Secondly, the handle is poorly fixed in all positions and constantly strives to slip further. Both of these properties make each time rechecked, which is included.
But the z-shaped handbrake is comfortable and simple.
The Hondov steering wheel combines a comfortable grip with a non-standard form of spice. Schoekly's eyes, but to steer nice.
The seats in Civic are well built and covered with a gray cloth, similar to a wafer towel. This material does not slide, but it produces constant static electricity, the discharge of which inevitable hopes accompanies each output from the machine. Rear in Honda is tolerant of the place for the feet enough, but overhead the gap is minimal, and the back is too strong into the lower back.
The Volvo Salon at first glance attracted the strict thoughtfulness and absence of excesses. The usual panel with four devices, the usual ram with three knitting needles and a very heavy hub. Buttons block on the console resembling the remote from the TV. Eyes well. We try your fingers ...
 
The conname authorities of the IMG protested, barely slipping the small handle of the light inclusion. And between the buttons of the tumanko what is it? Unlocking the gas tank truck? Strange Commonwealth. Finally upset the famous thin vertical console. There is only a good thing in it that you can cover your hand and upgrade the passenger with a light touch of the knee with a light touch of the knee (preferably familiar, otherwise you can earn it in your ear ...). Using the collected in a close bunch of various-caliber buttons with dual assignment on the go is simply impossible. Basically because the hand needs to be opened on something else. Well, if on the lever of the automatic selector. And if you have a mechanic, you will touch the buttons with an awkward movement forward.
The button-cell of the selector also requires a tricky finger reflect. On the side is inconvenient. Top to press.
 
But the main surprise presented the brake pedal. Why did Kappanov show and moved the riddle close to the tunnel to the tunnel. Even the modest 39th size shoe is squeezed to gas with difficulty. My 42th was constantly clinging for the brake, and people from the 47th size would have to pick up the car is helpful. And this is despite the fact that on the left of the brake lining of free centimeters twenty. Probably for the leg of the giant.
 
Volvo seats with least developed support. The rear passengers are not particularly rapidly and in length, and in the height of the reserves are small.
The maintenance of Jetta may not be worth it to describe everything in detail everything is familiar to golf. Nevertheless, a lot of curious details appeared in comparison with our competitors. First, Jetty doors are easy to open and close, because all the door handles are comfortable and in their places.
Secondly, the clarity of the perception of instruments and controls here is communicated to the absolute. And the light turns on where it is necessary and as it should, and the radio with the climate is read at times. The phrase is the best enemy is good here adopted for the motto. Designers stopped on a good and got ... the best.
 
And nothing is confused. And this is expensive! We were looking for, what would I find face ... Found only a little inferior Honda in the size of the mirror.
Separate praise Volkswagen seats! Profile, adjustment, rigidity, headlock all at level. Jetta is practically not inferior at the capacity of the Passat of a decade ago. Spacious and comfort.
 
Sitting behind the wheel of Volvo S40, we, of course, tuned themselves to the fact that this is a car for a calm driver. Knowing it, they chose a powerful version of the 2,4-liter motor. This one must go!
 
Exactly pressed for gas. Rides. Confidently and smoothly accelerates. Top sharp. Overclocking is only slightly accelerated. And now gas in the floor! The feeling of heavy car does not pass and then. We look into passport details. Curb mass does not exceed opponents. So, the start from the place is not the element of Volvo. But the Swede is well accelerated closer towards hundred and eventually overcomes this line a little faster than competitors, consuming, however, while the largest amount of fuel.
 
The five-speed VOLVO machine works quite clearly. Delays when switching down is, but they are tolerant. The noise of the motor into the cabin penetrates in modest quantities, and the timbre can be compared with the grumble of a disgruntled cat. Spring notch is not observed and okay. The advantages of the body should include small noise of the oncoming wind. If it were not for the boots eternally stuck between the brake and the tunnel, then the S40 would have looked at all.
 
But if you already managed to pull the leg from the cappon and touch the brake pedal, the Volvo slows down. On wet coverage ahead of time begins to ABEESS, but in any case, passengers experience decent negative accelerations with any careless trample of this big pedal. The wheel of the Volvo S40 turned out to be easy, but not too transusted, as it happened on the S60. Steering saves information for the driver, but the reaction to fast driving movements slightly slow. Like the reaction to the return steering in turn. I would characterize the behavior of S40 as a neutral obedience that does not provoke sharp maneuvers, although their car allows, what happens to.
 
Volvo is quite palpable and unpleasant loudly overcomes the rods and bumps. And the faster you move, the more distinct these irregularities appear inside. The formula is more speed less than the holes are not suitable here. At the same time, the sound is more than shaking, which is still nice.
 
Honda's dynamics are the opposite of the phlegmatic Swede. This car is ready to shoot any moment so that only hold on. I can not even believe that under the hood of only 1,800 cubes. But what! The skill of the Japanese to unscrew from small motors adult power just amazes.
 
Civic in a fraction of a second responds to any touch of the accelerator. Under the pedal, there is always some stroke stock. By becoming a sports motor and an automatic, alive sorting bands and up, and down.
 
But sharp acceleration is accompanied by a tangible engine roar on a narrow peak of the power curve. The twist motor easily climbs in six thousand revolutions and at the same time in the ears of passengers.
The brake dynamics of Honda was not so luxurious as overclocking. No, brakes enough, but at some point the informativeness is greatly reduced. However, you will quickly get used to it. Honda Civic, being a frank sports extreme on the field of publicly available cars, broadcasts into the cabin all the slightest irregularities of the road canvase. Probably, it should be at the car that instantly responds to any even minor driving movement. Honda is absolutely delivered from rolls, standing on the road as glued and turns the turns perfect. You can use the VSA coursework system only with very rough mistakes in the varyrage. I will not stop the car even on a serious pit, but it will not be thickened thoroughly!
 
Volkswagen Concern always knew how to build good motors. Caught and economical. And besides quiet. Do you know what is the advantage of a good motor? In what you get exactly as much as you expect. No more and no less.
 
Such is a golf motor. You click on the gas you receive a response. I pressed rigorously rumbling. You can rush with slip wheels. Would you like to save fuel again not a problem. FSI technology, you know. Under one to become a six-speed box, making your business quickly and clearly.
 
Nobody is wondering the German brakes of the reference car in the classroom. Does cars come from Wolfsburg badly slowing down? That's right, can not. Jetty pedal exactly exactly pressing with rigidity and allows you to dose the grams of effort and centimeters of the path. Even if under the wheels wet asphalt, the electronics will very gently correct the braking. Just as it will remove excess torque at the start. But only an excess.
 
Noise and vibrations in Jett are very small. The traveler and elastic motor does not require the squeezing of the last forces on tops, which is why the sound picture in the cabin is calm.
 
VW Jetta refers to its passengers with trepid and love. It has no sharpness of Honda, and Vallajtivity Volvo. But there is a clarity of the steering wheel, allowing jewelry to dispense the movement of the front wheels, and good zero, manifested in the fact that on a straight Jetta, like an abandoned hammer, always handle back.
 
What is particularly nice, irregularities are little reflected on the behavior of the car. Shaking in Jette is less than that of competitors in the test, and there are no sounds at all, which makes the honor of a compact city car.
 
In the course of the test, our Trinity unusually easily determined places on the finish line. It should be noted that Volvo and Volkswagen came to us in the configuration, close to the limit, and Honda on the contrary. Her finished analogue would be more expensive for three thousand. Everyone markedly touched outside and truly cosmic inside the design of Honda, gave tribute to the peaceful security of Passengers Volvo and were watered together to the top of the Pedestal Jetta, as the most balanced and the right car, who found the golden point of equilibrium between the extremes of the genre, able and allowing more than it seems on the first sight. Extraneordinal Honda, ready to conquer Russian expanses, we will make a trace, leaving the final estimates for its future owners, and expensive and not in all comfortable Volvo cloud our list, because prices for these cars begin where others end.

VW Jetta.

From the face Jetta and Golf GTI indistinguishable. And both are quite good-naturedly smiling by a corporate lattice.

Engine:
working volume 1984 cm3,
compression ratio 11.5: 1,
max. Power 150 liters. With. at 6000 rpm,
max. Moment 200 nm at 3500 rpm
Drive front
Suspension
Front Macpherson
Rear independent
Gearbox fur. 6-stupas.
Dynamic characteristics
Maximum speed, km / h 202
Acceleration up to 100 km / h, from 8.9
common data
Fuel consumption (EPA): 6.0 / 11.8
Volume of fuel tank: 55 l
Number of places 5.
Mass Snapper. / Full, kg 1450/1950


Maximum volume: 525 liters. The volume of this room is striking, but outside the feed is not particularly distinguished. The opening is large, and the lid is easy to close.

Despite the relationship with New Octavia, the elongated rear of the Jetty does not look heavy. Mostly due to the other location of the lanterns and tilt the back panel.

Honda Civic

Multi-type rear suspension works perfectly in turns. Throw the car into the skid is not easy.

Engine:
working volume 1799 cm3,
compression ratio of 10.5: 1,
max. Power 140 liters. With. at 6300 rpm,
max. Moment 174 nm at 4300 rpm
Drive front
Suspension
Front Macpherson
Rear multi-profile
Auto gearbox. 5-stupas.
Dynamic characteristics
Maximum speed, km / h 200
Acceleration up to 100 km / h, from 10.9
common data
Fuel consumption (EPA): 5.1 / 9.5 liters per 100 km
Volume of fuel tank: 50 l
Number of places 5.
Mass cutting., Kg 1291


Maximum volume: 389 liters. The smallest trunk in the test. In addition to protruding wheeled arches, highly engaged in place, the cover from the inside has no finish, like the closing handles.

Honda Civic exterior acquired the most dynamic features. Stand a frisme motor. Stylish and beautiful!

Volvo S40.

Among the competitors Volvo S40 looks the most monumental. Largely due to the vertical radiator grille.

Engine:
working volume 2435 cm3,
compression ratio of 10.3: 1,
max. Power 170 liters. With. at 6000 rpm,
max. Moment 230 nm at 4400 rpm / min
Drive front
Suspension
Front Macpherson
Rear independent
Auto gearbox, 5-stage
Dynamic characteristics
Maximum speed, km / h 215
Acceleration up to 100 km / h, from 8.9
common data
Fuel consumption (EPA): 9 l per 100 km
Fuel tank volume: 62 l
Number of places 5.
Mass cutting. / Full, kg 1400/1850


Maximum volume: 405 liters. The average for the size of the cargo compartment seems disproportionately small. But the cover absolutely does not interfere with loading.

The side of the sidewall, repeated with lanterns, makes the car with a spearlable. It is impossible to make a mistake!

HOW DO THEY LOOK
Nikita Rozanov
Honda Civic
First show autumn 2006
Honda design.
Volkswagen Jetta.
First show 2005
Design-director Murat Gunak (Murat Gunak).
Volvo S40.
First show 2003
Design director José Diaz de la Vega (Jose Diaz de la Vega).
OUTSIDE
If there were no stylists who were already on the eighth generation Civic work out the uniqueness of the appearance of each of the divisions of the Honda model line, then the test (if you use the terminology of Chris Bangla), would deserve the name of the test of sausages of different lengths. Indeed, both German and a Swedish car in its appearance can remind links of garlands (VW and Volvo, respectively), distingurable from each other only long. What is here to smear, both are large-scale copies of their older relatives. For example, Jetta, as far as I remember, was previously declared as Golf with a trunk. Now this is a poured Little Passatics. Even the miscalculations in the design are inherited exactly: from one angle it (it) narrow (narrow), from the other (high). About the VOLVO model range is special, and even I am lost in the principles of its visual identification. But, probably, such a similarity is still permissible, and the views of Bangla did not become a panacea for world design, and it pleases. After all, look, how okay the silhouette of the S40 or how they are sustabe to the person of the proportion and size of Jetta. How? Yes, even account as well as in a large Passat or flagship Volvo S80. Now briefly: from the face Identification for five stars from everyone, with the exception of Civic, which is suspiciously reminded by an expression of eye headlights, but this is already a fashion and so today will undermine the eyes of many new items. Silhouettes remain without comment, just that the question arises: how did they manage to make them the same? Did anyone draw them? Rear, in general, the situation is similar, and some variety is made only by the Manernic crystals of the rear lights of the Volvo, whose form is surprisingly not age and adds the necessary energy into the car style.
INSIDE
The picture is different, and at any passat inside the little Jetta is not similar, and the elegant high-tek-tek Console Volvo S40, on the contrary, is trying to copy even the elder members in the famous Swedish family. Design Honda In general, the explosion: two floors of measurement instruments, the dynamics of the original tracing lines, drawing the architecture of the panel (the hatchback interior will be even explosive lovers, wait). In comparison with these emotions, the minimalism of the Swedish design is able to turn water into the ice crystal ... but also there is its own connoisseur. General Note: The central consoles are no longer supported by the instrument panels so obviously, as was customary before, or not at all, or they hover, demonstrating their ephemerality. The result is unusual, which is required in this class and its consumer. Roules light and three-spoken, but without sports amart. What is he here? A special business of Civic steering wheel, the unusual design of which the smallest does not reach the image of the game console.
 
SUMMARY
Small yes delete, but for considerable money. Are you a fan of stamps and are ready to overpay for your favorite brand? Then, involving personal preferences, feel free to make a choice! Will be satisfied.

Volkswagen Jetta.
Wheel base, mm 2580
Length, mm 4555
Width, mm 1760
Height, mm 1460
Clearance, mm 135
 
The Jetta fastened on the front axis is always ready to shoot. It is exactly how the driver wants.

The jetty steering wheel leaves the driver's largest space for the appliance review. In addition, it is more pleasant to keep everyone in your hands.

Jetty seats can be considered a role model. Landing dense and comfortable

 
 
Seat adjustments in Volkswagen is enough anyone. Side support is recognized by all the best

Golf instrument shield is nothing new. But everything is simple and very intelligible. Brevity is the soul of wit.

Honda Civic.
Wheel base, mm 2700
Length, mm 4545
Width, mm 1750
Height, mm 1435
Clearance, mm 145

Additional windows in front of the doors frankly minivan solution. This is especially noticeable when viewed from the inside.

The similarity with the layout of the minivan is emphasized by the lack of familiar beard. The selector handle is pretty high because of this.

Antifriction materials of the sewers were evaluated by all the dignity. That's just the armrest fell on the pillow uncomfortable
At first glance, these profiled seats should be well held in the saddle. In fact, you will not sit in them especially in the back

In fact, Honda has two shields. The jumper between them is accurately falling for the rim of the steering wheel. Excellent find!

Volvo S40.
Wheel base, mm 2640
Length, mm 4470
Width, mm 1770
Height, mm 1450
Clearance, mm 135

Thanks to just a few lines, Volvo S40 seems significantly more angular than it really is.

The severity of the interior sometimes confesses with ergonomics. Stylish tie buttons console, similar to a television remote, is inconvenient.

Volvo has the most littered pillow. At first glance, not bad. Somehow will be in a long road?

Soft seats Volvo cozy. And the motley of what you need!

Volvo shield is extremely simple. And convenient. So everything else ...
 
LIKED
VW Jetta.

Some particularly liked items did not find it. Maybe from what is all done on conscience?
Honda Civic

How may not like this miracle? Fascotates beauty and easily read Bravo!
Volvo S40.

Buttons on the steering wheel, like a shield, are exceptionally comfortable. What is so lacking the other handles and pimples.
DID NOT LIKE
VW Jetta.

Still, I managed to find flaw. The jetty came to the jetty.
Honda Civic

The selector requires increased attention, and it is possible to close the trunk only for an acute and no protected iron edge.
Volvo S40.

Tests the buttons of the console and the pedal node are great when driving.
 
Text Evgeny Hapov
Photo Leonid Dedukh
 

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