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the CAR road test team,
17 April 2013 07:00
Month 5 running a honda Civic i-VTEC - storage issues in the CAR fleet Civic Finally more or less inured to the endless litany of ‘crashed dirigible on the roof’ jokes, I’d thought it sensible to leave the top box in place for our remaining Civic tenure. Not, however, sensible at all it transpires… ‘How,’ demanded the missus the other ...
2.5
the CAR road-test team,
05 April 2013 07:00
Month 1 running a Honda CR-V – the new CR-V makes it CAR fleet debut Life is full of surprises and Kia’s Sportage was one of them. I was optimistic about it before it arrived, impressed with the comfort, agility and practicality when it was here and sorry to see it go. The Sportage was always going to be a tough ...
Will Honda's new CR-V drive up a ski slope? Watch CAR magazine's new video review of the 2013 Honda CR-V to find out. Chris Chilton is your guide to the new crossover from Honda. The last one claimed to be the acceptable face of SUVkind - and the new one is more refined and brings more technology and flair to ...
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Ben Barry,
20 March 2012 09:00
If you're looking for an all-round hot hatch, the Civic Type R isn't for you: it's an all-or-nothing hot hatch. The ride is hard and spikey, the naturally aspirated 2.0-litre 16-valver is low on torque and, really, it doesn't do the daily drive stuff anywhere near as completely as a Golf GTI or Focus ST. But work the Type R ...
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Ben Whitworth,
31 January 2012 10:20
Goodbye to our Honda CR-Z – 31 January 2012 The departure of a long-term car is an odd experience. I rarely grow attached to the car as a true owner would, but tend to view them with a rather detached eye as something to be constantly evaluated and judged. The Honda was different. I really gelled with this car during the ...
2.5
Tim Kendall (photography by George F Williams),
23 December 2011 06:00
Swindon’s most famous export (aside from Billie Piper) has had a re-boot. The all-new, ninth-generation Honda Civic will go on sale in January 2012, and gently evolves the space-age Civic of 2006 – itself a radical departure from the safe, blue-rinse optimised Civics of old. First impressions count, and oddly some of the most memorable design flourishes which gave the ...
3.5
Anthony ffrench-Constant,
02 November 2011 10:00
Honda is nothing if not attentive to its customers. This, allied to bullet-proof build quality, metronomic reliability and ironclad residuals, explains why so many of them keep coming back for more. So it’s hardly surprising that it was to its customers that Honda turned first when hatching this new, ninth generation Civic. Five areas were identified for attention: the ‘polarising’ ...
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Ben Pulman,
20 June 2011 00:00
This is the Honda CR-Z Mugen hybrid, and it isn’t a production car… yet. Instead this prototype (valued at over £150k!) is designed to showcase just how far Mugen can push the CR-Z envelope. Mugen parts for the CR-Z already exist in Japan, but this is a British project by Mugen's European arm, Mugen Euro. Mugen is to Honda what Alpina is ...
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Ben Pulman,
03 May 2011 13:45
You usually associate hybrids with Toyota and Lexus, but not Honda – Honda makes high-revving VTEC engines, right? However, the torque-rich nature of electric motors mean they’re ideally suited to a synchronous life with a petrol engine that produces power at high revs. And with the launch of the new, facelifted Jazz, Honda has squeezed an electrified powertrain into its sensible ...
3.5
Tim Pollard and Ben Pulman,
04 January 2011 12:41
We pit Honda’s two smallest hybrid cars – the CR-Z coupe and Jazz Hybrid supermini – against each other in CAR Magazine’s video road test. It might be one of the snowiest days of the year, but associate editor Tim Pollard and staff writer Ben Pulman donned Russian hats, wrapped up warm and got to grips with two of the ...
