The plastic covers on the wheels don’t look hopeless as they have in the past – in fact, from a distance they are pretty convincing. There is a refreshing honesty and lack of pretentiousness here that is rare for a new car targeted at young buyers.įor a kickoff, the Civic’s newfound style is truly a success when it works on every version, from this LX to the most expensive models. Yet this Civic model probably does the best job at carrying the nameplate forward while keeping the customers who’ve made the Civic a byword for practical and reliable transportation.
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Newspaper journalists probably bought most of the stick-shift Civics, and the dwindling number of print reporters is probably why the take rate of an LX manual has dwindled to almost nothing, according to Honda. If they didn’t have a Civic, it was probably because they moved to an Accord or CR-V. The Civic LX with a manual is what I affectionately call “print journalist spec.” I can say this because I worked at a newspaper where the majority of the editorial side had Hondas. But all of that is wonderful when the car itself is so pure in its mission. Sure, you don’t get a flashy touchscreen, there are four plastic wheel covers fixed to the tires and you start it with this funny metal key. That’s absolutely not the case with the 2016 Honda Civic LX. Most base models of new cars feel especially impoverished when compared to more expensive models in the range.
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