2019 Honda Civic review, road test

The Civic returns to India after seven years, in its 10th-gen avatar, and now gets a diesel engine.

Published on Jun 03, 2019 07:00:00 AM

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At 430 litres, it’s got the smallest boot capacity in its segment.

Honda has equipped the Civic rather well with most of the features you expect in a car from this segment. So, you get four airbags, hill-start assist, ABS with EBD, ESP, reverse camera and parking sensors, all from the base variant. What the base V CVT variant also gets are LED tail-lamps, DRLs, 16-inch diamond-cut alloys, electric mirrors, keyless entry, paddleshifters and rear air-con vents.

Nifty turn-by-turn navigation prompts on the digital cluster.

As you go higher up the range to the VX variant (the base spec for the diesel and mid-spec for petrol), the features list include an eight-way powered driver’s seat, touchscreen, dual-zone climate control, cruise control, auto-dimming mirrors, ambient lighting and leather upholstery. It is only the top ZX variants that get full-LED auto headlamps,17-inch alloys, sunroof, rain-sensing wipers and curtain airbags. The Civic also gets some segment-first kit like a lane-watch camera, remote engine starter (petrol only) and automatic door locking when the driver walks away with the key.