2022 Honda Civic Touring Review: The Compact Sedan King has Grown Up!
it's colin if i ask you to pick one car for the whole world that is easy to use for your grandfather good for the car enthusiasts great and reliable and safe for the first time driver that comes with all the modern tech that you find in new cars what one would you pick uh probably the honda civic like that one yeah it looks about right yeah so here it is the 2022 honda civic which is a global car now this year honda has designed so no matter if you're in south america japan the uk north pole or here like in newfoundland we are the honda civic it's going to look the same in your area so all new redesigned colin what do you think i love it it resembles a bit of a baby accord definitely toned down a bit but i really like the way that honda went with this 11th generation civic yeah so usually i do reviews by myself but i brought conalon with me today because he owns a past generation honda civic so it'd be great to get his insight on how he feels now in saying that as soon as we hopped in the car the first thing we both noticed and especially him owning the last generation is that the interior is completely redesigned and almost nothing like we've seen before in other brands so starting off this review we're going to hop inside the brand new civic and start off our review inside let's go all right inside the 2022 you hear the nice chime that it neutral yeah so what do you think i really like it it's so much more upscale than the 10th generation civic like just sitting in the seats on the previous generation the the civic head leather insert interiors on the touring trim this is fully leather it's bolstered well it feels a lot more comfortable than my civic of course up here we have a brand new vent system kind of the honeycomb vent grill i like it it's definitely different and eye-catching but i would not want to clean it no i do not want to clean it at all but it definitely is i've never seen it before on another car especially in this class yeah i like how they stretch it right across to it's not just like a section of it it's right across it really gives you that modern look and feel for it for sure no for sure and i like this material here you're not going to get any fingerprints on this yeah they got rid of the piano black there's a little bit up here for fingerprints but like you're not going to touch and i'm not there about the vent too much but like the getting rid of it down here is a really smart smart option yeah and i'm not too worried about the stuff up here like ideally you know honda does a great job with their buttons so the only thing you're really going to be touching up here is the buttons anyway and you do get a really good sounding yeah click when you're turning the uh the temperature gauges definitely gives you like a secured that you're actually you know you're on a specific actual temperature now i will say though on the touring here it's all screened so nothing actually lights up besides your uh your front your rear ac and stuff like that but everything else is light up so the car has to actually be on to see anything on your center dash which is kind of nice and clean looking for sure and on touring trim we also get a wireless charger with some storage up front which is awesome yep absolutely honda's known pretty well for storage so you know sizeable pretty sizable glove box here fit a couple of our water bottles in there no problem no tray for your chains and stuff that can go right on top of it no problem absolutely right so we got our drive modes here as well so we have normal econ and sport mode um one thing i did notice here so the sport mode is actually in the drive modes um on the previous generation you did have the s on the actual gear shift itself not anymore of course and econ don't have a button anymore either which is typical for honda but it's actually in your drive modes as well and they also give you the start stop button that you can turn off and on which a lot of manufacturers don't do but i'm glad that they give you two because i don't like that feature personally no me neither yeah um beyond that i i really like the simple design layout here i like how the honeycomb grille is not just a touring model it is on all the models so you feel like you get a little bit of a you don't get downgraded if you go lower and trim by no means at all now the leather seats obviously are for the touring trim um the other seats are also very comfortable on the other ones that we've had out moving on to the steering wheel here which like feels really nice yeah it's nice it has a nice thumb holding positions here weird thing to note though that the heated steering wheel button is on the steering wheel which i like but it's it's kind of down low in that third i've never seen a car put it there yeah it's kind of weird they have room for it in other places on the wheel they chose there in a big button which i mean you can't miss it which is great but it's kind of a different placement for sure standard on the um civic we get the adaptive cruise control um we don't have the honda lane watch system anywhere we actually have normal blind spot detection that lights up in your mirror lane keep assist as well and honda's lane keep is pretty good i gotta say even on the the 2021 that i drive right now i'm pretty comfortable driving that on the highway even if i got to take a slight turn the car will usually take the turn itself so honda does a pretty good job with the lane keep itself i would assume let me get this out on the road it's going to be a little bit more refined so i'm excited to see if there's any real big difference there yeah um we do have keyless entry and remote start on the touring here as well the key fob is all redesigned it's nice and thin and small it's a lot smaller it's a good weight too like it doesn't feel like it's plastic it feels really nice and small in your hand which is great when you got multiple keys on your keychain and we do have a push button start up uh just behind our steering wheel there it's not down yeah angled a little bit more differently than previous generations which i like because it's not it's it's out of the way because yes and it blends in with that piano black too yeah it's not for sure the overall i i like the new i like it i like the simplicity of it but it also has that modern touch that you need for 2021 like honda does a great job giving you all these buttons that a lot of manufacturers won't actually give you yeah so you have this you have simplicity with this um as well as a bit more of a luxury feel of course on the touring trim yeah and also note you got two auto down windows and auto up windows on your driver and passenger side which is a huge convenience when you're going through drive-throughs and stuff like that i love the auto window option now you don't get it on your side but i get it on the driver's side which is great but yeah no i really like the redesigned honeycomb grille when they first launched it i thought it grabbed attention right away because it is a different design um look it it feels good it doesn't feel like all the touch points in here feel actually really nice for really a comic kind of sedan that you can buy and that will it well is the leading car in canada to buy and i can see why and i think they did a really good job with what they did with this redesign for sure 23 years in a row is the best-selling compact sedan um and you can really see why here yeah it's it's simple it's economical it has that little bit of sporty drive that you'd love to have um in an affordable car um yeah so i'm really excited to get out on the road and see what it's all about yeah all right so uh infotainment wise what what do we what do we have up front here so up front we have a 10 inch brand new redesign from honda very responsive much better than last year yeah last year's last generations infotainment last generations was a little bit laggy in almost all areas this seems to be much more refined we have wireless apple carplay and android auto on the touring trim seems to work perfectly fine pretty simple to connect i know some manufacturers have some issues like how the screen is full size too yeah no absolutely that's great for apple carplay stuff yeah big icons and we got a good navigation here we'll see how the responsiveness is when it loads up let's slow the load up not bad yeah yeah so it's nice easy quick to load pinch zoom multi-touch display fills up the whole screen which is great yep seems pretty good i like the apple carplay and android auto and let's call and play some music here now for us um we do have a 12 speaker premium bow sound system in here with a subwoofer um on the touring trim which is fantastic sound the first time honda's actually done that too yeah so good step in the right direction especially when all of their competition has been doing that for for a couple years now for sure now it is only found on the touring trim um so it is the top trim that you find on which is expected that's from all manufacturers but um if you're looking at the touring trim with the other features and stuff you get with it it's a nice add-on that you get that premium sound built in with the apple carplay and android auto which wireless with your wireless charger and stuff i also like that the screen nine inches of course um has a little curvature around fills up the whole screen but on the side we actually have tactile buttons on the screen so they're not passive touch buttons or anything like that we have an actual knob for our volume home button back button skip track forward and back i'm glad that they gave us the buttons and they tacked all buttons matches down below with ac and stuff i i'm a big fan of tactile stuff because it makes it simple yeah no and again i'm gonna go back to honda keeping things simple and easy to use like again you walk into this cabin and there's not much of a learning curve like the buttons are pretty straightforward left to go a little bit cooler right to warm it up um there's a dedicated button for your heated seats with three levels of heat overall like fantastic is what i like no no none of your settings are hidden in the i o everything is right where you need for simplicity it's easy like you said when someone gets in this car there's no learning curve yeah like someone who has been driving their whole life can get in this car and feel comfortable in it someone who's brand new to driving can get in the civic and once again feel absolutely comfortable at home yeah for sure not a hard learning curve and everything's memory touches within your reach it's it's a great uh great design in interior for simplicity and but yet leveling it up to the modern 2022 generation going in going forward for sure now the honeycomb grille we mentioned already um once again super easy to use hear yeah little clicks when they're kind of centered in place yep but again again super easy to use you can point what i like about it is that i'm always finicking with my vents to get the exact ac on my face what i found about this is that with these toggles and the silver yeah you literally just point the toggle right at yourself and the air comes right at you there's none of this trying to get that loose you're trying to feel it out like you can literally just point that silver right at you it's almost like a target right at you and that's super convenient when you're just setting uh ac it's a smart design like i said before though i do not want to clean all these little holes but it looks good it looks really really good and again it's it's honda doing a good job of just simplifying not over complicating the dash like like this is a different design i've never seen anyone else kind of do this but it's simple it's modern it's it's the right direction good job honda for sure like vince always got to go into cars and i'm always i always like to look how vents are designed because it's kind of just a hole that you got to put into your dash but i really like how honda streamlined it right across and made it part of the dash even though all this space here you can clearly see is not vent space at all you got one over on your side one here and two for the drivers and they continue it over past the steering wheels here as well so that you get that seamless right across and it just hides the vents into the dash completely like it's not a cut out or anything like that it just seems like it's part of the dash layout for sure so i really like it um beyond that now let's uh let's dive into the digital dash that we also have that hana gave us on this touring which is fully customizable so let's uh let's have a look right there so along with our 9 inch infotainment screen up front with awesome technology we also have a full 10 inch digital dash in front as well with awesome technology and features too yeah no absolutely and it's really interesting to see so we have our apple maps actually connected right now wirelessly wirelessly which is good but it's coming up here on the digital dash so when you know we're going through our directions it's saying you know where exactly we need to go i actually haven't seen that on uh on a car in this class so definitely very interesting um so we can have lots of options here i find this really interesting too so this actually shows um who actually has their seat belt on in the car again something i haven't seen in the car we're parked up so we don't have ours on right now as you can see two red x's and if i do actually go and put mine on it's pretty cool check mark yeah so we're good to go we have passengers as well so it'll register obviously when there's someone sitting in the back um yeah and when the seat belt connects turns green great safety feature especially you've got kids in the back that don't want to wear our seat belt and you're not sure if they are or not absolutely so we also have our oil life here our safety support and in the customized display we can actually go in here and change our gauges up a little bit so right now we have a little rounded design but we can go from round to bar and go and of course this is a bit of a preference yeah for sure i'm around yeah me too i like the traditional look of it now that is cool it is definitely very cool yeah and again i think it's just cool that honda just gives you this this option and also it's cool you get all the information on that side of the dash as well but you also have a toggle on this side you can change even more stuff over here as well so this is where all our infotainment lives so we got our radio control commands our satellite radio usb bluetooth and what i really like is that you can see your apple car play in the uh in the screen itself as well so if you're playing any music you can skip along and you can see it in your center screen you don't actually have to look at the the infotainment screen at all which is a nice integration yeah i really like the full integration with the maps the music and all that um the other cool really animation that they have is when you turn on lane keep assist yeah i love this so you turn on lane keep assist on your wheel a little honda civic civic pops up and the really cool thing is if you hit the brake the brake light comes on hit the blinker look at that i just want to see if i open the door will the door open i wonder i don't think so it does it doesn't but it does tell you on that side with a cool animation and i like how you could tell that's a 2022 civic like they modeled the car perfectly to that it's really cool the brake lights come on we put on our hazards pretty cool little animation um i guess it's kind of like a little easter egg it only happens when you turn on the lane keep assist you turn it off it disappears again but still really cool pretty cool um nice little feature i i will say the screen is nice and bright i can easily see all the information on it um in sunlight and whatnot and i really like the safety feature with the with the seat belt the seatbelts is a cool simple feature that is like really uh it's simple but it works you people who don't like wearing your seatbelt we know we know exactly where you're sat to now we know you behind the driver in the middle row yeah you you you don't have your seatbelt on i got you we got you it's it's it's a nice little system like i said especially if you've got kids in the back who might unlatch their seat belt and you don't notice and stuff like that it will give you uh that little warning so that you know that you know everybody's safe in your car when you're driving which is nice and ties into once again honda's simple but safety design it's great for first time drivers or anyone in particular anyone it's a great little safe feature more safety features the better we also got a temperature gauge up front as well in our digital batch which i really like to have instead of having it on the screen like some manufacturers do at least you can see it for a quick glance right in front of you as you're driving overall i really like it we still have our fuel and our engine temperature off to the side on little led lights flanking both sides of the screen there easy clear to read but yeah overall i i really like the digital dash that they they put in this it's simple clean it's honda absolutely for sure no that's cool let's uh let's hop out and see what's powering this 2022 civic all right so engine colin what do we have in this unit cool so on this touring trim we have a 1.5 liter naturally aspirated four-cylinder putting out 180 horsepower and 177 pound-feet of torque paired to a cvt now i gotta admit there's no uh hydraulic uh trunk lift hood lift but that's fine because you're not going to really open the engine bay too much no i don't think any really classic car has it in this um so the engine is actually paired to a cvt and there is no manual in the sedan you'll have to wait for the hatchback to actually get a manual transmission which is coming which is coming yeah but on the base engine we get the two-liter four-cylinder uh putting out 158 horsepower and 138 pound-feet of torque fuel economy is a little bit better it's still very very strong honda does a great job keeping everything so economical so on this touring trim we have 33 mpgs in the city and 42 on the highway which is fantastic very good yeah very very good um and on the base trim with the 2-liter engine we get 31 on the highway we're sorry 31 in the city and 40 on the highway so still really good we're up over the 30 mark for our uh mpg which is great for uh a car of its size with the room inside and the compact it's right in class with the segment if not leading for sure a little bit weird now not to see an engine cover now if i yeah i know it's like most cars now you're gonna see an engine cover but but no they're saying here's all the hoses you can see everything pretty much there's no hiding of anything in the engine which is like i said it's different but um it it's an engine yeah don't think many people who own the honda civics really gonna pop their hood too much but there's the specs of this made it to the cvt um and this engine is also turbocharged i forgot to mention that so on the touring trim we do get the turbocharger on the base trim we do not yeah so this one gets you a little bit more a little more oomph with that turbocharger which is great so obviously the touring trim is the top spec you get the leather seats the upgraded infotainment the wireless carplay and you get the upgraded engine sound system so it is the top trim but i'm glad honda has different it from the other trims including with the engine not just your interior yeah you do get an actual different feel and more horsepower more torque from that 1.5 liter when you get the touring option for sure cool so let's close this up and let's talk about this uh outside exterior all brand new for the 2022 model year let's talk about the looks yeah so what do you think first thing i see is a baby accord which is not a bad thing the accord's a great looking car for sure um standard led headlights comes now on all civics so even people buying the base model still gonna get the led headlights up front which is great for your visibility for sure yep on the touring trim down here we have our fog lights one thing i also do want to note there's a lot less fake vents there are fake vents still on this honda civic but it's a lot less honda's really toned it down went a little bit less from the a more mature look from the more juvenile look from the 10th generation so for sure i think it's yeah it's it's mature like you said it's much more mature daytime running lights i like how they swoop in and swoop down it looks really nice when you're driving down the road i the big unibrow look here really pulls the whole car forward really aggressive look like how there's line cuts underneath right here and even up on the hood good lines going out very nice lines now this color i love this is my favorite honda color really nice more manufacturers use a color similar like this i know subaru kind of has something yeah i like it's just matte it's like got a little shine but it's matte and it's uh it's great it's it's it's a beautiful color it's a head turner yeah it works sonic gray really works for this this car yep um obviously isn't added price to get that that color but i mean it's a price that i would add because yeah it came over into yourself yeah so the header side we got from the wheel perspective we got 18-inch wheels um aluminum alloy with on the touring spoke on the touring yep so on the base models we have a 16-inch with different designs now the touring design already i like it has that little i do too you look home with a little bit of black if you look at it first it kind of looks like a five spoke but then you actually have to look a little bit closer and you got this little bit of a darker um alloy material here to show the actual tent spokes in it which uh which i really like and it ties together that's a good job wheels yeah they do and ty's really good job with your color it's really nice so overall i mean it's it's up to suggestion everybody has their opinions on what cars look like new generation here definitely toned down more mature but i i like it yeah it's growing on me more in person than it did in the photos for sure it's a car that you have to see in person to really get um and this color really like i said sets it off for sure i like the black trimming there's no real chrome up front on this unit besides the a little bit in the headlights and the yeah again it's a lot more mature like you said like it's the 10th generation had a little bit more of a juvenile look yeah i really think this but i think this fits yeah this fits for any age group that you're in that you fit like it can work for the young person who's getting into wants a sporty look because you can definitely make this look sporty i'm excited to see what the type r kind of comes out and looks like but if you want also just subdued city hauler i mean it looks great for that as well and absolutely and even on the sport trim too so these wheels you still get the 18-inch wheels on the sport trim but you actually also get blacked out rims as well so that also just adds to it you also have blackout uh pieces on the front and the mirrors as well which is great so that's the front and down side side side a little bit more of a european design you can definitely see they're taking some styling cues from some european competitors i like the the mirror color matched to our paint here on his touring trim which nice we have the indicator built in as well yeah and on the passenger side like you mentioned before we actually have just normal blind spot there's no sense a honda camera there anymore so it's a nice fluid now design you don't have that camera there from the sunroof perspective ex and up you'll get the sunroof as well so that's been pretty standard on honda for the couple last generations but definitely a good feature i like how we have the shark fin antenna here really sporty look we don't have uh just a little antenna nice so yeah if we move down towards the the rear of the uh new civic here um simple again like again yes tone down for sure um tory badge here yeah right side more chrome back here i find a little bit more chrome we got that we got our sensors here back as well but it's common on the touring it's uh it's very all painted the same color it's very simple back here one thing i will note is that it does have dual exhaust but they're hidden underneath the bodywork yep um on the sport you'll actually get a single exhaust which is which is good because i want to see it yes it's great to hide away with the fluid body lines here that they got i do like the tail lights they removed away from kind of the the crab claw appearance yeah from the last generation much more simple we have our reverse light here um in it with our turn signal and our daytime running lights as well with the brake lights really nice we do have our center brake light in the window so it's not nothing on the back here nice and clean overall i like the back yeah it's it's it's simple it's simple it's nice um still gives it that little sporty look um terms of trunk space that we have in here let's check it out so we have a few things in there already camera equipment yeah so there's no problem fitting any of the camera equipment that we have with us today um spec wise we have 14 cubic inches of space here which is pretty similar to the last generation but again this is where honda really gives you a little bit more than last generation a little bit more than the last generation i'm sorry but yeah this is where honda really knocked it out of the park like you can fit a lot of stuff in this like this is close to a camry i know a camry is about 14.8 15. yeah so we're we're there's a complex what could you fit in yours say i can fit i have two baseball bags that i can fit in here and i can also fit a small golf bag so i mean that's pretty good for a a small compact car as they put it like for space we also have 60 40 seats to even give you more room if you got nowhere in the back seat yeah you see it's super simple you just pull these two toggles and you push them forward and they are down so you got more room to even store more stuff in there the load space here is a little tight but i mean there's no trouble to get stuff in there this opens nice and wide it's deep it's it's good we also have the rubber matting down below so if your car does get dirty you put some stuff in there that's a little bit dirty you can just take out the whole mat later and clean that and you don't get your carpets dirty which is a great little add-on feature for sure but great trunk space lots of storage for for the size of the car it is so honda always does a great job with that so honda's always been famous for a sporty ride even with their normal compact vehicles for sure and this one's no different has the struts up front for suspension multi-link in the back to give you a really nice handling feel for sure we have four disc brakes all around um on this touring trim so the last thing now to do is uh take it on the road and see how it feels i'm driving first all right so driving the new 2022 honda civic you can definitely feel the quality that honda has added to this vehicle the handling the suspension everything is finely tuned for this type of car the wheel feels fantastic honda does a great job with their steering wheels road noise is pretty minimal pretty similar to last generation might be a little bit better the 2022 honda civic and i love it like i i mean guys it is a fun little car to whip around town on it's super quiet in here it's it steering wheel feels fantastic it's nicely even weighted it's comfortable and the seats hug you nicely cvt transmission has a little bit of pep in this touring trim uh with 180 horsepower as mentioned previously so yeah it's a it's a great you know commuter car but again it's going to have that little bit of pep that you know is going to beat the competition for sure so i'm on a straight road here um let's let's see how quick we can get them go there's 70 right there so not too bad from a standing start it's it's pretty good and i did that in eco mode so i mean definitely has enough power to get you off on the go on the highway and get around town without any issues whatsoever there's like no road noise to this there's you can hear a bit of the cvt but this is such a smooth ride honda i think has accomplished exactly what it needed to do with the small refinements that it needed to kind of improve from the previous generation so handling and suspension probably similar to last generation civic so honda does a fantastic job with that but again just adding the extra perks with the infotainment and a couple added comfort features again this driving position is great so we we took a long drive out here to do this review and i can definitely see myself you know taking this car all the way back um to our home destination it's comfortable it's quick it's it's a honda civic the digital dash up front is easy to read give me all the information i want and it's fully customizable like we've shown before so it's a great little layout here everything's within my reach the screen is nice and bright and up high it doesn't extract my view talking about view the visibility in here is fantastic honda's done a great job really tiny pillars here so you don't really have a blind spot there we do have our blind spot monitoring on this touring model which comes standard across the whole range which is fantastic but visibility is great out the back i can see no problem for driving it guys i thoroughly enjoy it no trouble road trips zipping around town it's confident when you're driving behind the wheel you feel solid as i go back and forth here it is a solid solid kit to have in your driveway for sure so definitely recommend coming in test driving it so uh colin's left to himself there now waiting for me to get back and i was like i don't know if i want to go back because i'm having a little bit too much fun so um yeah i guess we have to head back now and uh pick up colin because uh he's waiting for us so let's head back and pick him up i really like it me too yeah i think honda hit all the right things with this new refresh generation and sticking to the civic name of being practical simple fun i mean home run so home run for sure let's go for another drive let's do it bye
2021-08-28 04:07
