2022 Honda Civic First Look: The Next Generation

MotorTrend

10/20/2023

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00:00 Connor Golden with Motor Trend here in the studio

00:02 with the all new 2022 Honda Civic Sedan.

00:05 Honda has put an emphasis on making the new Civic

00:12 look lower, longer, wider, and overall more athletic

00:16 than the outgoing car.

00:18 As part of that push, they've moved this frontal area down.

00:22 They've pushed the A-pillars back.

00:23 Overall, the whole shape somewhat looks

00:25 like a rear-wheel drive car

00:26 with the weight over the rear axle,

00:28 kind of a smoothed out Accord-esque front end.

00:30 Looks really nice.

00:32 Another way that they've made this more athletic

00:34 and overall smoother and more refined,

00:36 Honda really worked to bring this area down

00:38 by about 1.2 inches in the rear passenger area,

00:41 kind of smooth out or sleeken the rear canopy area.

00:43 The track is wider as well in the rear.

00:46 Even the rear taillights have been kind of toned down.

00:48 Instead of the crab-claw style bulbous taillights

00:52 of the 10th generation, the new 11th generation

00:54 has much smoother integrated lights

00:56 on the rear decklid area.

00:58 (air whooshing)

01:00 The powertrain lineup is more or less the same

01:02 as it was in the last generation.

01:04 The base-level LX and the new mid-level Sport

01:09 have the two-liter naturally aspirated engine,

01:12 and then the EX and the trim-topping Touring

01:16 have the 1.5-liter turbo engine.

01:18 If you do get the more powerful engine,

01:20 you get 180 horsepower and 177 pound-feet of torque,

01:23 an improvement of six horsepower

01:25 and 15 pound-feet of torque.

01:27 Now, what we've got here are the two bread-and-butter

01:29 Honda Civic sedans, but they have already confirmed

01:32 a five-door hatchback is coming along with a Civic Si,

01:36 and of course, the new Type R,

01:38 so you better get excited about that.

01:40 Exterior's really great, love the interior.

01:45 Check this out, new thin-rim steering wheel,

01:47 really sporty design.

01:48 Shifter's been moved a little bit closer

01:50 to the driver to the left.

01:51 There's some really awesome hexagonal,

01:53 pseudo-metallic-looking single trim piece

01:56 that goes all the way across the dash,

01:58 hiding some of the air vents.

02:01 It's kind of really nice, premium-looking design.

02:04 This is available on all trim levels.

02:05 We're in the top-spec Touring trim right now,

02:08 so all of this might not be the new Sport

02:10 or on the EX or the LX,

02:12 but most of it is shared with the other cars.

02:14 A really nice, premium-looking trim piece

02:16 on the center console and on the door panel

02:19 is fingerprint-resistant,

02:20 so it won't get all smudged and gross-looking

02:23 when you're using it every day.

02:24 Drive mode selector offers Sport driving mode

02:27 for Touring and the Sport model.

02:30 The new Civic Touring also features

02:32 the Civic's first-ever all-digital gauge cluster

02:34 right ahead of the driver.

02:35 It's a configurable design.

02:37 You have the traditional digital-style circular gauges,

02:40 or you can select the bar mode

02:41 that pushes the speedometer and tachometer

02:43 to the outsides of the screen

02:45 in a vertical kind of bar graph, bar-level-style readout.

02:50 It's pretty cool.

02:51 Infotainment gets a boost as well.

02:52 The Civic's standard 7-inch touchscreen

02:55 incorporates CarPlay and Android Auto.

02:57 The EX and the Touring

02:59 have the optional 9-inch infotainment display,

03:02 so that's pretty big.

03:03 So that's the all-new 2022 Honda Civic Sedan.

03:08 If you want any more information,

03:10 more photos, a deeper inside look,

03:12 gotta go to motortrend.com.

03:13 We've got the full scoop.

03:15 (upbeat music)

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2022 Honda Civic First Look: The Next Generation

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