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now Hana just redid the Civic stem to stern for the 2012 model year why are they redoing it rather heavily for the 2013 a couple of reasons the interior was shall we say rather soviet-era and the ride quality was to be generous somewhat intrusive they say they've addressed both of those counts to make this car more competitive in a very competitive field and they've got to get it right this is their bread and butter let's get inside all right now inside you immediately see lots of materials that are more or less soft of a hard plastic we were greeted with before the little faux moulded stitching bezel surrounds these knobs it's almost getting over-the-top little faux aluminum things around the vents overall they've brought up the level of quality and quality appearance so this car seems less of a utilitarian transportation appliance over here a button that gives you another insight into what's happening on these cars lane departure warning they've got more driver assistance technologies on civics now no change for the power trains though in the new Civic that means the same 1.8 liter for you got the hybrid motor the bigger 2.4 in the SI another thing I'm going to wait to check when we get one of these is how they've handled the ride quality it was very utilitarian before nowadays you've gotta have a certain level of compliance that's just the price of admission now other upgrades happening that you'll find when you're driving one of these there's a lot more tech across a lot more trim levels like rear view camera Bluetooth hands-free hello it's the 21st century Pandora support even SMS tech support in many if not all trim levels this car will no longer be back of the pack for the tech it's about time these are already heading the dealers as we speak so no waiting to go try one out you