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A few days ago, Dongfeng Honda did a warm-up campaign for the hatchback version of the Civic, bringing a hatchback version of the Civic concept version, which continues the overseas version of the Civic hatchback and uses a sports style kit. At the same time, there is a billboard with the title of "King of New North" at the scene.

Honda fans know very well that the model that can be called the "King of New North" is indeed the Honda Civic, but the Honda Civic Type-r with a red-headed engine costs more than 600,000 yuan, and can the hatchback Civic, which is only equipped with a sports kit, be called the "King of New North"? Obviously not, the reason for doing this is because Dongben is in order to achieve the effect of publicity.

From the point of view of the appearance of the concept car, the model adopts an all-black design, and the shape of the front face is basically the same as that of the current hatchback version. At the same time, it provides an exaggerated sports encirclement kit, which is accompanied by red front lip decoration with very radical visual effects, gray painted rims and red brake calipers.

The tail shape is also exaggerated. On the basis of continuing the overall shape of the overseas version of the Civic hatchback, the domestic Civic hatchback version concept car also provides an aerodynamics kit with red decoration and painting. In addition, the new car still uses a very unique mid-set double-out rear layout.

As for the power has not been announced, it is expected that the domestic Civic hatchback will continue to use the power layout of the current hatchback version, all models provide 1.0T and 1.5T power forms, the maximum power is 92kW and 130kW respectively. The transmission system matches the 6-speed manual and CVT CVT.

Although the Honda Civic exists as a "magic car" in China, sales have remained above 20, 000 for several months, falling to 17000 in December, down 35% from a year earlier. But it is such a sales "magic car" has been China Insurance Research "hit" P (bad review), so some netizens said: how about the new car B-pillar?

According to the collision test report of Baoyan in 2018, in the side collision test, the Civic was simulated by a 1500kg test car with mass as 50kg, and the collision speed was 50kg. From the point of view of the collision test car placed on the spot, the lower part of the Civic B column is broken, and this result precisely shows that it is caused by the insufficient strength of the Civic B column steel structure. In fact, the steel strength of the side of the car body from the A column, B column and even C column is the same, so the results show that the performance of the model is not ideal.

According to officials, the test model was Dongfeng Honda Civic's 2016 comfortable automatic 180TURBO, and the result was hotly debated as a "magic car" with a price hike since its launch, which was obviously unacceptable to consumers.

Today, the hatchback Civic is still a hot seller, and the hatchback Civic is coming soon. According to official sources, it will be launched and put on sale in May this year. However, judging from the current market heat, the hatchback Civic may once again become one of Honda's sales-supporting models.

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