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With the rising trend of Japanese brands in recent years, Honda brands are constantly realizing the "two-car" strategy. The Civic, which has been owned by Dongfeng Honda, has been rumored to be introduced to GAC Honda in recent years, but there seems to be no conclusive evidence to prove it, and the official has never stated its position. However, the Honda Civic has been introduced into GAC Honda, and there has been new news recently.

According to a number of media reports, a Guangzhou auto parts company, a supplier of Guangzhou Auto Honda, recently disclosed that its company has been awarded the Guangzhou Honda "2LN" project, and according to the PPT of the "2LN" project used by several online media, it was found that there was a picture of the Honda Civic model in the content. If the PPT material is not wrong, it may mean that the GAC Honda 2LN model will be a derivative of Dongfeng Honda Civic. In response to the above news, it has not yet been officially confirmed by Guangzhou Auto Honda.

According to Honda's current "two-car" strategy, the 2LN model may be adjusted in appearance, interior design and configuration, and will be integrated into the concept of the GAC Honda family, and the power is expected to be the same as the current Civic model, equipped with 1.5T+CVT combination. As the project will not be officially launched until the second half of 2019, it will take some time for the product to achieve mass production.

From the point of view of the current Dongfeng Honda Civic model, it was updated to the 10th generation in 2016 and changed in the medium term in 2019, only for some details and configuration adjustments, not much change as a whole. The front face continues the Dongfeng Honda family design, changing the old chrome-plated bright silver medium net to black style, and the lower intake pattern to penetrating design. The side did not make too many adjustments; the tail changed from the original hidden exhaust to an exposed, more personalized middle exhaust.

Obviously, Dongfeng Honda's mid-term modification of the ten-generation Civic is more adjusted by the decoration habits of most consumers studied by the manufacturers, because the positioning of the Civic is mostly young people, and there is even a saying that "the Civic does not change. It is better to throw it into the sea," which also highlights the behavior that most Civic owners like to refit. If GAC Honda launched the Civic model, it may prefer a more stable design, such as Accord and INSPIRE, as well as the difference between CR-V and Haoying.

Although the Honda Civic has only made adjustments to the details, it is still the main model of the Honda brand. According to the FIFA data, there were 235000 vehicles in 2019, an increase of 8.8% over the same period last year. It ranks in the top 10 of the domestic car list and is the best-selling model under the Honda brand.

In addition, Dongfeng Honda will bring a hatchback version of the Civic this year. At present, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has released hatchback Civic data. As can be seen from the declaration chart, the new generation hatchback Civic continues the overall design of the overseas version. Compared with the current hatchback model, the hatchback Civic tends to the shape of Honda's Civic type-r, which undoubtedly becomes the vision of more domestic consumers for Honda tppe-r models, so guess under the reputation of hatchback models. The hatchback version may continue the novelty of the hatchback model. According to official sources, the Dongfeng Honda hatchback Civic will go on sale in April, while it remains to be seen whether GAC Honda will launch a hatchback Civic derivative model.

It seems that as the Chinese automobile market enters the era of stock competition, Honda's models in the Chinese market are becoming more and more intensive, hoping to adapt to the habits and tastes of domestic consumption through different products, and hope to cooperate with each other under the two-car strategy to form differential competition. Of course, with more and more overlapping models launched by the two Honda joint ventures, the "war" between the two will become more intense. At the same time, the impact on the same class of models will also be mutual.

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