2012 honda civic

2012 Honda Civic Si Review

When asked if he looked to another automaker’s high performance model in building the new 2012 Si, Honda Civic chief engineer Mitsuru Horikoshi was unequivocal. ‘No’, he said, in plain English, his translator not being needed to communicate this most basic thought to the assembled journalists.Were it another car, we might have had our doubts, but as the flagship performance offering in the Civic lineup – a vehicle that spawned a generation of import car tuning – the Si is the benchmark to which others are measured. This held true even late into the previous car’s product cycle, with newer rivals hitting the market, when it could no longer be considered the obvious performance king.