You can set your grandfather clock by Honda’s product planning cycles. The Civic gets replaced roughly every five years, and that is Right. About. Now.
The 11th-generation Honda Civic is expected to be completely redesigned for the 2021 model year. Styling should evolve on the same trajectory as the recently refreshed Odyssey, making the car sleeker and slightly de-emphasizing the chrome unibrow up front. In the back, the crab claw taillights will probably be jettisoned in favor of something more understated. Inside, new technology is a given and likely to manifest in the form of a larger infotainment system with updated software, a larger screen in the instrument cluster, and a push-button gear selector for the automatic transmission.
The automatic transmission option will almost certainly continue to be a CVT, and we fervently hope the manual transmission will remain. We expect Honda to continue to offer its 1.5-liter turbocharged four-cylinder, though it remains to be seen if the base 2.0-liter inline-four continue in the lineup. Don’t expect a Civic Hybrid to return; the Insight fits that bill now.
We’ve illustrated a Civic sedan here, but we think the hatchback and coupe models will return, as well. Likewise, the sporty Si and Type R models should come down the line once the mainstream models are on the market—though with the Welsh-built Type R ensnarled in Brexit madness, that model could move to a North American production site.
The mainstream models should arrive in the fall, with a similar starting price as the old model, around $22,000.
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