The 2022 Honda Civic Prototype made its official debut this week, previewing the eleventh-generation of the popular Japanese compact car.
2022 Honda Civic Prototype
The 2022 Honda Civic will launch in sedan form in the United States next summer, with the Hatchback model to follow shortly after. This next-gen Civic will also spawn another sporty Civic Si model, along with a new version of the high-performance Civic Type R.
Honda is only showing this prototype version of the Civic sedan for now and thus is also keeping many details with regard to the car’s available powertrains under wraps. It promises “more powerful and fuel-efficient powertrains,” though, which will likely consist of various four-cylinder and turbocharged four-cylinder engines for the U.S. spec model.
2022 Honda Civic Prototype
The automaker confirmed this next-gen Civic will also usher in a number of firsts for the long-running nameplate, including its first standard full digital driver’s display. This nine-inch digital dash will be joined by a standard eight-inch tablet-style screen mounted on top of the instrument panel, as well.
As with virtually all new Honda products, the 2022 Civic will feature the automaker’s Honda Sensing suite of active driver assistance systems, which includes tech like adaptive cruise control, collision mitigation braking, road departure mitigation, lane keep assist, traffic sign recognition, a blind-spot monitor and a rear cross-traffic monitor, among more. The new Civic will offer a more advanced Honda Sensing suite, but the automaker did not say how it will be superior to the current version.
2022 Honda Civic Prototype
“The 10th-generation Civic has been an unparalleled success – America’s most popular car four years running, and the most popular vehicle, car or light truck with Millennials, Gen Z, first-time new vehicle buyers and a growing population of multicultural customers since its 2015 launch,” Honda said. “The 11th-generation Civic will build on that appeal with an even sportier, fun-to-drive new chassis, more powerful and fuel-efficient powertrains, multiple new Civic-first features and technologies, and further advances in active and passive safety features and performance.”
General Motors abandoned the compact car segment after it pulled the plug on the Chevy Cruze Sedan and Hatchback last year. The automaker has no intention to return to the segment, either, mainly due to the Cruze’s comparably paltry sales volumes and low-profit margins. Detroit rivals Fiat Chrysler and Ford have implemented similar strategies, leaving smaller car segments to focus their efforts on crossovers, trucks and SUVs, which are more popular among their customer base and have stronger margins.
Look for the 2022 Honda Civic to begin arriving at U.S. dealerships next spring. The compact will be built at Honda’s plant in Greensburg, Indiana. Pricing has yet to be announced, although the 2020 Civic Sedan starts at $21,050 before taxes and destination.
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I hope since GM will be providing Honda with Ultium EV;s that Honda can provide GM with a new Cruze and Malibu.
They are desperately needed.
Exactly. Give us a Cavelier Honda!!!
The question is can they make a possible Chevy Cruze that can live up to the reputation of a Honda Civic or better in order for it to survive for the long term the next time around?, we all know that the possibility is yes although GM’s greed to profit more off of the Trucks and SUV ‘s showed signs of not giving the Cruze the well-respected competiveness that it deserved, on top of that, the Malibu and the Spark will be axed after the 2022 Model Year.
The Cruze was actually more reliable than the Civic but it will never live up to the hyper-inflated reputation.
I find that highly unlikely. I own a Cruze and really like it. I don’t own a current Civic because I’m not 12. But put this one up against the Cruze and Honda’s reliability record, and I’m buying the Honda no question.
Price being the other factor of course. The Honda tax is real.
I think it also depends on what model you buy. If you compare the older 1.4t LUV to the newer 1.5t from Honda, they are both very easy engines to work on. The Sonic, according to several car review sites, has better dependability ratings than the Civic across the model years. And the Cruze has reliability scores on par with the Civic.
Honda makes a great city car, but GM also USED TO make a pretty darn good city car. Current Japanese b/c segment cars are putting the Trailblazer and Encore GX to shame tho. The reason the you pay the tax is because because of the brand recognition with long running models like the Civic and Corolla. For the life of me I do not understand why GM didn’t continue either the Sonic or Cruze, which generally speaking had pretty good reputations.
Joe in TO Are you in a legalized marijuana state?
Leaving the sedan market go is a huge mistake. Not everyone likes SUV’s or Crossovers or is willing to buy one, no matter what. Market is cyclic and those buyers will migrate to other brands and may not come back when market trends change again. As owner of a Chevrolet Volt (one of the best cars I every owed), unless GM, Ford or Chrysler produce an EV or an EREV sedan, my next car will be a Tesla Model S or Model 3 (even a Lucid Air if I manage to get the money), but there’s no human power that’s going to make me buy an SUV or a Crossover.
GM left the segment long ago! Well I guess one year of Covid 2020 does seem like a long time no matter how you slice it! They really should have kept the new Cruze and killed off the older Sonic. Anybody I have spoke to with a 2016 on up Cruze loves it and raves about the mileage!
It was a solid product with no exciting models. Too bad. A used RS hatch would be a good buy I think.
I was saying to myself for the longest, GM could have learned from the success of the Civic Si Model or even the Subaru WRX in order to attract more potential buyers to the Chevy Cruze. They tried at one point with the Chevy Cobalt, that turned out to be nothing more than a car with a “Hyped Up” body kit and a 4 Cylinder Turbo that really did not compete well in its segment.
Back end looks a little bit like a CT5.
I agree LOL Im not a fan of the C pillar (I believe its called) I own a 2014 new body style CTS and love it.
Great. Now your Cadillac looks like a civic side profile.
Your not wrong.
Why is this GM news?, if Honda puts out Silverado competition we’re talking. Besides GM selling plenty of sedans, just not in N/A.
“Why is this GM news?”
It’s not, Sam just can not stop himself from digging on GM when he gets the chance.
Every new model car has GM in it’s crosshairs and every car that crashes is GM.
Huge mistake from GM and Ford
The interior of this Civic is plain cheesy and pedestrian. Not good.
To me it looks kind of retro with the long horizontal lines.
Meh! Take it or leave it.
The really important thing though is “How intuitive is the info screen?” I have a car with a well rated screen and to me it is NOT intuitive.
are you kidding me – looks totally clean uncluttered.
It’s sharp looking and it will sell well. Finally, a Civic that you could almost call handsome. The dashboard is a knockout. Beautiful, classic, simplistic dash design from Honda of all places.
Looks like my Nightfall Gray Cruze RS Diesel hatchback up there. Some douchewad just pasted the passenger side in a hit and run. I’m fixing it no matter what even if I end up with a salvage title because it’s basically irreplaceable since GM pulled the plug on cars. The whisper diesel/9-speed auto are fantastic, total shame they ceded over a century of automobile manufacturing and design leadership to Asia and Europe.
GM really blew it. It’s getting sadder to read GM news all the time
Great work
What I read now about the powertrain of the new Civic in Europe, it looks like an evolution of the Voltec drive train.