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The only Civic engine option (unless you get a Type R) has 'self-charging' hybrid tech and provides plenty of punch for driving around town, overtaking and accelerating up to motorway speeds. The potent electric motor allows you to travel for short distances at low speed around town driving without using the engine at all.

2.0 eHEV

The Type R’s 2.0-litre 324bhp engine (up from 316bhp in the last generation Type R) has such an appetite for revs that it's hard to believe that it is turbocharged. If you're looking for an exciting hot hatch, the Type R is king. 

2.0 VTEC Turbo Type R

Sport trim gets everything you’d need, including LED front fog lights, part-leather seats, 18in alloys, wireless phone-charging and an auto-dimming rear-view mirror. It’s our pick of the range.

Sport

Top-spec Advance models comes with all of the equipment found on lesser Civics, plus a heated steering wheel, synthetic leather seats, a 12-speaker Bose sound system and a panoramic glass roof.

Advance

This trim level is no longer available to order.

Elegance

Considering the Type R's eye-watering price tag, it's a good thing that it comes packed with kit as standard, including 19in alloy wheels, dual-zone automatic climate control, ambient lighting, privacy glass, adaptive cruise control, adaptive LED headlights, wireless phone charging and keyless entry. 

VTEC Type R

Hatchback

Honda is a company that doesn’t like to follow the crowd. So, while it competes in most of the traditional sectors of the car market, in each case it does something a little bit different.

The Jazz, for example, might look like just another rival to Britain’s best-selling car, the Ford Fiesta, but it’s actually much more practical than its rivals, with a flexible boot and Tardis-like interior.

The bigger Civic is also a practical choice, but it’s mainly distinguished by having eye-catching, love-it-or-hate-it styling, despite competing in a sector of the market that’s usually more conservative than a blue rosette.

And while it may not seem so radical now, Honda’s large SUV, the CR-V, was one of the first to forego any pretence of being an off-roader and instead focus on on-road driving dynamics.

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