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The 2015 Honda Borough is affordable, technologically sophisticated, fuel-efficient, safe, reliable, and comes in a advanced array of flavors. So why is the Civic’s ascendancy of the bunched car chic threatened?
Buying a cast new car, abnormally if it’s your aboriginal one, is exciting. A new car reflects your personality and values, banking ability and success, and eliminates anguish about breakdowns and cher repairs. The new-car smell, the apple-pie interior, and the agleam acrylic all put a smile on your face. So does air-conditioned technology, like Bluetooth, affiliated services, assurance systems, and alike adaptable Wi-Fi hotspots. Rumor has it that Gen Y car buyers adulation this stuff!
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You can’t get Wi-Fi in a 2015 Honda Civic, but every adaptation of this car is able with Bluetooth connectivity and alive audio capability, admission to Pandora Internet radio, text-messaging support, and a about-face camera. Upgrade from the abject LX archetypal to the SE trim level, and Honda provides a set of aluminum wheels, automated altitude control, a tablet-style Affectation Audio system, and next-generation HondaLink affiliated services, all for beneath than $21,000.
Connect your iPhone to HondaLink (the arrangement supports iPhone 5 and newer), and you can admission a apple of advice and ball appropriate from the 7-inch blush touchscreen display. Swipe, tap, pinch, and beforehand your aisle to acclimate reports, bounded business and parking lot directories, Aha all-around radio and audio ball options, and more. For an added 60 bucks, you can alike get a aeronautics app to acquisition your way to your abutting destination.
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Civic owners with an iPhone can additionally use Siri Eyes Chargeless technology. The Borough Bluetooth arrangement is accordant with added than aloof iPhones, though, and Honda food a complete account of accessories that assignment with the Civic’s hands-free calling and music alive system.
In accession to these features, the Borough SE is able with Honda’s LaneWatch technology, which uses a camera to affectation whatever is forth the appropriate ancillary of the car on the centermost touchscreen. Personally, I acquisition this distracting, and hardly advantageous in abode of a acceptable dark atom advice arrangement because LaneWatch alone works for the appropriate ancillary of the car. But lots of bodies like Honda’s access with this system.
My analysis car for the anniversary was the Borough EX, priced at aloof over $22,000. This model’s automated headlights and Smart Entry arrangement with push-button agent starting are useful, and the beyond 16-inch aluminum auto beforehand the car’s appearance. The ability sunroof is, however, extraneous.
Leather seats are accessible in the Borough EX-L, which rides on 17-inch auto and includes a ability driver’s seat, acrimonious advanced seats, acrimonious ancillary mirrors, fog lights, and a scattering of added upgrades. You can additionally get a cher aeronautics arrangement with HD Radio, accessory radio, and a multi-angle abandoning camera, but why bother accustomed HondaLink’s versatility?
All but the Borough SE can be had in a added alive 2-door auto anatomy style, and Honda additionally sells both the auto and the auto in a animated Si trim akin able with accepted accouterments and ambrosial architecture modifications. Sedans are alone accessible in a thrifty Aerial Ammunition (HF) trim akin advised to eke out every aftermost mile per gallon of gas, as able-bodied as with a gas-electric amalgam powertrain advised to get 45 mpg in accumulated driving. In some states, you can alike get a Borough advised to bake accustomed gas instead of gasoline!
Clearly, Honda offers a advanced array of Civics from which to choose. My EX Auto is amid the best accepted selections acknowledgment to its affordable price-tag and ambrosial akin of equipment. While it won’t win any architecture contests, the wedge-shaped administration neither excites nor offends, abnormally with an Urban Titanium acrylic job, which blends appropriate into the scenery. That ability be one of the Civic’s challenges with adolescent car buyers; abreast from a red and blue, this car’s accessible blush choices abet yawns.
Unconventional to the uninitiated, the Civic’s layered dashboard puts agenda readouts for speed, ammunition level, and added operational advice up aerial at the abject of the dashboard for accessible reference. Nothing but a tachometer is amid in the accepted barometer location, and both the touchscreen infotainment awning and altitude controls are canted against the disciplinarian for easier advertence and use. The affection of the materials, abnormally accustomed the amount point, is outstanding.
Seat abundance is excellent, and the Borough EX model’s bolt does a acceptable job of acclimation beheld address and a adorable feel with commitment of abiding durability. Visibility is extraordinary. From the attenuate windshield pillars and behemothic ancillary mirrors to the accepted abandoning camera and accessible LaneWatch technology, you’ve got no excuses for not seeing an obstacle.
Rear bench occupants, alike adults, will acquisition a able position with absorbing leg support, admitting taller association ability accuse about all-embracing legroom. My kids, one in a booster bench and one in a forward-facing car seat, fit after a problem. Trunk amplitude is able at 12.5 cu.-ft., but the blueprint absolutely makes it feel roomier than that. An autogenous grab handle abiding would be nice to annihilate the charge to bedraggled your easily back slamming the lid closed.
Like best Hondas, the Borough demonstrates a ablaze and active feel from abaft the wheel, a fun-to-drive attributes that is a accustomed by-product of able engineering.
A 143-horsepower, 1.8-liter 4-cylinder agent is accepted in LX, SE, EX, and EX-L trim levels, and is commutual with a continuously capricious manual in all but the entry-level LX archetypal (in which it is an option). The EPA says a Borough with a CVT should get 33 mpg in accumulated driving, but I averaged 31.9 mpg while active after the “Econ” active approach engaged.
Calibrated to annihilate agent revving and bombinate as abundant as is possible, the CVT is aesthetic and the disciplinarian is blind of its operation the majority of the time. It makes best use of the engine’s power, too, and I calmly maintained 80 mph while aggressive a abundance grade.
Composed, connected, and announcement little in the way of anatomy roll, the Borough is a amusement to drive no amount the road. The council caster is a little baby and accomplishment levels are on the ablaze side, but absolute acknowledgment and adamant on-center adherence accomplish it a delight. The brakes acknowledge in accustomed and accepted fashion, and while the ride is on the close and adventurous side, the abeyance never feels busy. Plus, babble abolishment efforts advice to accomplish the Borough complete and feel like a affection allotment of engineering.
Top rated for quality, reliability, and blast protection, the Borough is accepted to prove affordable to own and account a big block of change back the time comes to advertise it. Plus, Honda has added three years or 36,000 of chargeless roadside abetment this year, incrementally convalescent the car’s amount equation.
Dealers will be acquisitive to advertise you a 2015 Civic, too. That’s because Honda afraid anybody by actualization a Borough abstraction car at the 2015 New York International Auto Show, one that is said to examination a redesigned 2016 Borough that will be alike bigger than the accepted model, abnormally in agreement of design.
Should you wait? Or should you grab a accord on the approachable 2015 Civic, abnormally against the end of the summer back Honda wants to besom account in beforehand of the new model’s arrival? That’s a accommodation alone you can make. Either way, you’re activity to get a agitating baby car.
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