2021 Honda Civic Hatchback – Is This The Best Civic To Buy?

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2021 Honda Civic Hatchback –  So, as you probably know this honda civic is one of the most popular vehicles in the entire world, and this civic hatchback is both a more practical and sportier spin-off of that classic example. It was just refreshed last year and what i’m standing next to today is the latest 2021 example.

2021 Honda Civic Hatchback

2021 Honda Civic Hatchback

What You Have to Get From 2021 Honda Civic Hatchback

So right from the start here, i’m, going to go ahead and point out what is probably the most substantial change for 2021 Honda Civic Hatchback and that is the elimination of the exl trim level.  So that’s, going to reduce the range down to just the lx sport ex and sport touring trim levels with that being said, though, the styling itself does not change this year. So up in the front you’re, still going to find that really nice gloss black fascia, which does contrast really nicely with this bright red color now off to the side.

Here you also have your halogen headlights on all the trim levels, except for the fully loaded sport touring model, but you do have an led daytime running light. Then down below honda does nicely include halogen fog lights on all, but the very base model.  Now, as far as the wheels they did change last year with the refresh and what we have is the middle option of a 17 inch gray, finish alloy here on the ex trim level.

If you choose the lx, that’s, going to have a smaller 16 inch alloy and if you choose either of these sport trim levels, that’s, where you get the 18 inch contrast, alloys and then moving up here to your mirrors. They are always going to be body colored, you will get heating when you choose the ex trim level or the sport touring, and that’s. Also, where you’ll, have the blind spot camera system instead of blind spot monitoring.

2021 Honda Civic Hatchback Change

2021 Honda Civic Hatchback Change

Now, of course, as the name implies, the bigger changes to the 2021 Honda Civic Hatchback are going to be here in the rear, because, of course, it is now a hatchback as opposed to a regular sedan. Now, as far as what you’re going to get that’s different, of course, you have the different design and you’re, also going to have two spoilers, which i think is a quite interesting touch.

That’s going to be across the entire lineup now, as far as your tail lights, these are going to be fully incandescent, the brake light, the turn signal and reverse side is incandescent and then dropping down here to the diffuser area. Of course, this is also quite different from the sedan. You have a lot of black trim. To give you contrast, and if you go for the sport or sport touring trims, you’re, going to get center mounted exhausts now.

One of the most impressive features about the 2021 Honda Civic Hatchback is that honda throws in their entire safety suite standard across the entire lineup. So even the base lx will have all the niceties like adaptive cruise control, auto high beam headlamps as well as ford emergency braking with pedestrian detection. But as you can tell the 2021 Honda Civic Hatchback changes quite a bit with the exterior design.

But now let’s, go ahead and check out the rest of the practicality inside before we take this baby out in a spin,  So on the 2021 Honda Civic Hatchback, honda does nicely include smart entry on all but the very base model and in addition to that, they throw in remote start so long as you choose the cvt equipped models, now to get inside the vehicle itself.

2021 Honda Civic Hatchback Interior

2021 Honda Civic Hatchback Interior

There is a sensor behind the handle, so just grab it once you open up the door, you will be greeted with the pretty much the same interior that you are used to, but that’s, not a bad thing, since it is a very high Quality and spacious place to spend time now talking about your different interior, color and material options on your 2021 Honda Civic Hatchback LX and your sport trim level that will come standard with cloth seating in black.

You’re, going to see those same materials you select from the seat reflected up here. So if you have cloth seating, you will have a cloth, trimmed arm rest as well as this area above it with the stitching detail, and then this top part here is going to be soft touch as far as our windows are going to be, one touch auto Up and down for your driver and passenger and then coming down here to your seats, this ex trim level, as well as the sport touring, are going to come with the 8-way power adjusting seat.

2021 Honda Civic Hatchback Feature

2021 Honda Civic Hatchback Feature

The lower two trims will come with a six-way manual, one instead and then like i was mentioning. Most models do have the cloth seat, but i say really like this cloth seat really nice fabric and i love the stitching details that they put on here to make it look nice. So as far as your cabin materials, honda has always done a really good job. With the 2021 Honda Civic Hatchback interior – and it does continue unchanged for 2021., so up on your upper dash, the only part that’s hard is right above the gauges.

All the rest of this is going to be soft touch plastic. All through here now down below, we have a kind of gray finish trim. The different models do come with different color trim. We do have some hard touch plastics as expected, but everything does fit together extremely well and feels really really solid: [ Music, ], [ Applause, ] and to start up the 2021 Honda Civic Hatchback just press the standard button.

So this digital gauge cluster setup became standard across every single civic hatchback in 2019, and that does continue for 2021. So obviously you’re gonna have a large display right there in the middle.

You can use the little i button on the steering wheel to cycle through a lot of different kinds of information, including some unique stuff, like a turbo boost gauge, which is pretty cool. Now, coming back to the steering wheel itself, you are going to have electric power assisted steering with a really nice leather wrapped wheel on all, but the very base model it will be manual adjusting across the entire lineup and heating is not available.

Now up above that, you will have rain setting wipers if you choose the fully loaded sport touring model and then on the other side. This is where you will notice a little button over here to activate your lane watch camera or you can signal to the right.

2021 Honda Civic Hatchback Redesign

2021 Honda Civic Hatchback Redesign

So this is on the ex trim level and above and obviously, instead of having blind spot monitoring. It just shows you a live camera feed of what’s on your in your blind spot. Okay, so let’s, go ahead and talk about interior storage, which remains one of these 2021 Honda Civic Hatchback uh, just really unrivaled areas so with this center console very unique setup with a lot of space.

So you slide that back. You ‘ Ve got basically a couple layers of sliding trays. You also have two cup holders and you can slide that back and reveal a third cup holder. As you can see, this is all really deep and you have a ton of storage. So if we’re going to slide that out of the way – and we grab out our coupons, it’s, going to be no problem whatsoever. Sticking these in here which, by the way this is an area that the corolla has failed.

So we have a lot more storage here on the 2021 Honda Civic Hatchback up in the front. Here we have another large storage area, good for a cell phone and then really unexpectedly, we even have a center pass-through with some more storage.

Now, moving on up, you will have an auto dimming mirror on only the sport touring trim level, since that exl has been eliminated, but thankfully honda does throw in a power sunroof. So long as you choose this ex trim level or above all, right so getting in the 2021 Honda Civic Hatchback rear seat, you’re, going to be met with the typical civic rear seat, which is a lot of space and a lot of comfort.

2021 Honda Civic Hatchback Cargo Capacity

2021 Honda Civic Hatchback Cargo Capacity

So, as far as the space itself is going to come in at 36, inches of your leg, room 37 inches of rear headroom, which is a touch behind that of the regular civic sedan. However, it is quite a bit larger than the corolla hatch and as far as the space behind drew seating position i have about, i would say, four inches of rear leg, room and my feet can’t easily slide up underneath the seat.

Specification

Now, one of the big things to know about the 2021 Honda Civic Hatchback that is important is that it skips the base engine from the sedan. So you don’t, have the two liter, naturally aspirated engine, you go straight to the 1.5 liter turbocharged four cylinder that’s, going to produce 174 horsepower um with the non-sport trim levels and then 180 horsepower features the sport or the Sports ring whether or not you’ll, be able to tell the difference between those two highly doubt it.

2021 Honda Civic Hatchback Specification

2021 Honda Civic Hatchback Specification

But you do get just a little extra power if you choose one of the sport trips yeah and really a good thing about having that turbo Engine is just how quiet and refined it does also give you a lot more power, but having the 1.5 liter, we’ve said it in a lot of other honda. Reviews is just a very quiet and refined engine, so you’re. Really going to have a more premium experience out of this.

As opposed to like a civic sedan in the sport trim yeah, i really like the just the the power of the torque really nice down low, so you kind of get off the line really nice and Swiftly, but just cruising along here, i do also want to discuss uh the ride quality since you won’t, always be hustling.

Your 2021 Honda Civic Hatchback, around a country road, you’ll, be doing a lot of highway cruising, and here going around 60 miles per hour. I don’t. Think it’s really too loud in this cabin. I will get a sound level reading to kind of confirm, but there is a little bit of wind noise. But more importantly, is that you can get a six-speed manual if you choose the sport or the sport touring trim level see that’s. Uh really rare at this point to offer the manual and especially to offer the manual with the fully loaded model.

So that really, you know, like goes well with what we’ve, been talking about this being a sport-oriented model. Honda is targeting that audience. Now let’s, wrap up what we need to discuss here by talking about the fuel economy, so for the 1.5 liter engine with the cvt that’s, going to be rated at 31 city 40, highway 34 combined. And then, if you go for the six-speed manual transmission, that’s going to drop down to 32 combined.

2021 Honda Civic Hatchback Release Date

2021 Honda Civic Hatchback Release Date

How much the 2021 Honda Civic Hatchback Price?

As far as the 2021 Honda Civic Hatchback  pricing is going to be concerned for the civic hatch, you’re, going to see a little bit of A price increase over the regular sedan, although it’s, not a huge difference in price, so for the lx it’s, going to start at $22.000 bucks.

The sport is 23.9 ex is 24 5 and then the sport touring is 29 200. Now that is worth knowing that’s with the cvt transmission. So if you go for the manual it’s, going to cost 800 bucks less now, as you know, honda doesn’t do options, so all we do is add the destination charge of 955. Brings this one to $25.455 bucks as equipped uh, which i’d, say i’m very impressed with that price point. You’re, actually getting a lot of features in this e-x to make it a more luxurious experience and as we’ve talked about throughout this entire review.

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