The baby Accord front end and headlights give the Civic a handsome grown up look that looks well thought out and planned; the wide eyes of the headlights give the conservative front end some aggression. The snout of the current Civic is a hot mess. The headlights and grille create a very busy front end and I find the piano black gloss grille on the Sport/Si/Type R front look a bit cheap and low quality. What visually offends me are the giant fake vents/grilles and the body colored boundary barriers that break up the fake grille/vent into separate pointless areas instead of it being just one giant waste of space.
Based off the renderings of the dashboard, I'm really digging the clean design and the vent arrangement. It's clean, simple and effective. Mazda has really been nailing simple uncomplicated dashes in the 3 and Miata/MX5, and even the rebadged Mazda 2 Toyota Yaris. I hope the finalized interior isn't too far off from the rendering; we pretty much know by now that Honda concepts aren't too far off from the road going production models, usually with an aggressive paint job and rims that are available in other markets but not to us. I wasn't a fan of the Energy Green that looks like Split Pea Soup Green, but Tonic Yellow caught my eye the first time I saw it on a Sport Coupe in the show room.
I'm excited about the 11th gen CIvic. The concept sedan is a handsome car. I'm a hatchback/wagon guy from the first time Imy mom let me drive our 87 Civic Wagon that became my first car to my 86 Accord LXi manual hatchback, an 81 CM450A hondamatic motorcycle and my 86 Civic CRX Si and my 88 CRX Si, my 93 Accord EX manual sedan (all fancy like with a motorola car phone), my charcoal grey 93 Civic LX sedan, my 94 Civic Si hatch, our "Minivan of Fury" 2000 Odyssey LX that died at 372k, my 2003 919 (CB900F/Hornet) to my first brand new non-hand me down 08 Civic EX 5mt sedan that I regret trading in for my '11 CRZ EX 6mt to my current day Mommy Wagon 07 CRV EXL, my '14 CB500F ABS and self propelled electric start Honda push mower; I've been patiently waiting for the 11th gen. I didn't buy the black 2008 Civic Si sedan I wanted bought my first brand new car and had a car loan; the premium gas the Si required was the highest I've ever seen at $4/gallon, so I studied the brochure and decided I wanted a Tango Red Pearl EX manual sedan. I got a ridiculous offer from Fairfax Honda-a price beater dealership I worked at 9 years before. I questioned the internet sales manager and head sales manager confirming the offer amount before getting driving from VA Beach to Fairfax, fairly certain that I would get screwed over after making the drive up there (which almost happened when Finance didn't give me the 2.9APR because I had student loans). Even though FFX Honda was a price beater dealership, the offer price was below dealer invoice and holdback and I was sure something would go amuck and this deal was too good to be true. My salesman met me at my mom's apartment to take me to the dealership as I was giving her my Civic instead of trading it in adn she was out of town on business. We went to the dealership to get my keys and have them start the paperwork and were going to fetch my car from one of the 5 off site storage lots they rented. My car was in one of the garage locations parked with 3 other Tango Red Pearl EX sedans. My car was the only manual red EX sedan on that lot, but I understood how I was getting a stupid ridiculous deal on my new car when my salesman told me my car was the one with the August inspection, and it was May 8th. Apparently I was the only one who wanted a manual Tango Red pearl EX sedan and FFX Honda had been paying lot space rent for almost an entire year (10 months). I loved that car more than the Si I had wanted and just as much as my first Civic and I regret trading it in on my premium white pearl CRZ EX6MT. I've wanted to hit myself in the head with a frying pan for making that stupid decision, so I sat myself down and told myself: "Self, we're gonna get another brand new Civic. And we need to make sure we get the right one because we're keeping this one until they take our license and keys." And Honda REALLY staggered the release of the 10th gen; it seemed like a year went by after the sedan came out before the coupe arrived and even a bit longer than that before the hatch arrived. And manuals weren't available on EX-T's until 2017. I had narrowed it down to a Cosmic Blue EX-T manual sedan or a pearl white EX-T manual coupe until I drove a White Si Coupe then later a silver Si Sedan and I really couldn't figure out what would work best for me in the long run. And then the new Accord came out and I'm looking at the 2.0 Sport so I can have my moonroof and manual transmission, and between a Tonic Yellow Civic Sport coupe and a pearl white Accord Sport, I threw in the towel on which Civic do I want today? But I definately never wanted any model Civic hatchback. Nope. No thank you; you keep Kwazi-Moto; we're gonna try walking. I'm sure it's a great car and many people wouldn't drive anything else. But the hatch has a face only its mamma could love. I don't hate it cuz it's British; I hate it cuz it's ugly and it scares my retinas And I'm sure sitting in the back seat is as claustrophobic as Buffalo Bill's well.
And I like that Meteorite Metallic on that sedan in the street pic posted recently. That might be a good change from the whites and silvers I generally have.
I don’t know I may like Hondas or some thing-
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