2013 Honda Civic Rumored to Get Model Refresh With More Aggressive Styling
One of the complains that has been leveled against the new 2012 Honda Civic is that it isn’t very dramatically designed. In fact, we said as much in our review of the Civic Si, commenting that this “boy racer” needs an injection of testosterone.
This may just happen, and far sooner than anyone could have predicted, with rumors that the 2013 model year car will get a styling update well-ahead of the usual mid-cycle refresh. According to one source a “very refreshed, and more aggressively styled Civic,” is set to hit the market in December of 2012 as a 2013 model year car. The news comes from a “grassroots” meeting between West Coast Honda dealers and corporate big wigs, where the dealers expressed their concerns with the new car’s styling and were reassured with the above comments from corporate.
With Honda having just launched the new Civic, the 2013 model year car is said to arrive late in the year, perhaps as far away as December of next year, giving Honda as much time as possible to revamp the car to help it compete better against popular new models like the Cruze, Focus and Elantra.
GALLERY: 2012 Civic Si
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Read AutoGuide’s 2012 Honda Civic review here, and 2012 Civic Si review here
With AutoGuide from its launch, Colum previously acted as Editor-in-Chief of Modified Luxury & Exotics magazine where he became a certifiable car snob driving supercars like the Koenigsegg CCX and racing down the autobahn in anything over 500 hp. He has won numerous automotive journalism awards including the Best Video Journalism Award in 2014 and 2015 from the Automotive Journalists Association of Canada (AJAC). Colum founded Geared Content Studios, VerticalScope's in-house branded content division and works to find ways to integrate brands organically into content.
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Like the power and torque of the new SI 2.4 but I think an autostick would be great so the wife could drive it and in sedan form with room for our baby with good trunk space! Lil more aggressive styling needed too! Sporty yet more practical for daily use is def needed!
I love my 2011 Civic SI. I drove a 2012 when I was in the market for one, but it just seemed too "Cadalackish" Idk it just felt a little top heavy. I really have no complaints about my 2011 at all except for maybe it has a little too much roll to it in the corners. Thats just the racer in me talking though. For what its worth, it drives like a dream in the monsoon rain when the roads are a lake, I live in seattle, trust me I drive it a lot.