The new 2017 Honda Civic Hatchback is now official and it is launching in the USA this fall, it will be available with a 1.5-liter DOHC direct-injected turbo engine.
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Crucially, the vehicle will serve as the basis for the new Civic Type R that Honda has confirmed will go on sale in 2017.
The vehicle arrives in showrooms in the fall, as a 2017 model, where it will join the related Civic Sedan and Civic Coupe.
In the States, the new Civic hatchback joins Coupe and Sedan variants launched earlier in 2016 – we don’t get them in the UK. The Civic Type R has already been spied in prototype form and will reportedly be previewed in concept form at the upcoming Paris show.
All hatchback versions will be powered by a 1.5-liter turbocharged inline-four engine, though using two power guises. The LX, EX, and EX-L trims pack 174 horsepower and 162 pound-feet of torque, while Sport and Sport Touring, deliver 180 hp and 162 lb-ft. That power boost comes courtesy of a high-flow center-mounted exhaust. The LX, Sport, and EX will also have a six-speed manual gearbox, while the CVT is standard on each Civic hatch – returning an expected 31 miles per gallon city and 40 mpg highway. As with the sedan, the hatch will come with independent suspension at both ends, sport-tuned electronic power steering with variable gear ratios and four-channel anti-lock disc brakes with electronic brake distribution and hill start assist.
Available on most trims (and standard on Sport Touring) will be the Honda Sensing suite of safety and driver-assistive technologies, which includes Collision Mitigation Braking System (CMBS), Forward Collision Warning (FCW) integrated with CMBS, Lane Keeping Assist (LKAS), Road Departure Mitigation (RDM), Lane Departure Warning integrated with RDM and Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) with Low-Speed Follow.
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The vehicle you see here is likely to be called the Civic RS, since Honda Australia has confirmed the new British-built Civic hatch line-up will echo that of the Thai-made Civic sedan range.
