Even though the Honda Civic has been completely redesigned for the new model year, engineers worked to ensure it did share at least one thing with the outgoing model: The 2012 Civic sedan, just like the 2011 version, has been recognized as a “Top Safety Pick” by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). The honor goes only to vehicles with electronic stability control and the highest possible scores in the IIHS’ tests for side, front, rear and rollover crash protection, so it’s a notable achievement for the Civic.
And it’s no coincidence that the Civic offers some notable standard safety technologies, too. These include Honda’s Advanced Compatibility Engineering (ACE) body structure, which is used throughout the automaker’s lineup. It’s an exclusive body design specifically developed to manage potential crash forces at the front of the vehicle to reduce their affect on the passenger compartment. Also standard on the Civic are safety features like vehicle stability assist, traction control, anti-lock brakes and a full range of airbags, including side-curtain airbags, dual-stage multiple-threshold front airbags, a driver’s front side airbag and a front passenger’s side airbag with an occupant-detection system.
Further, the IIHS “Top Safety Pick” status applies to the entire Civic sedan lineup:
- The original Civic, now boasting EPA ratings of 28 mpg city/39 mpg highway/32 mpg combined
- Civic HF, specially enhanced to break the 40-mpg mark, with EPA ratings of 29 mpg city/41 mpg highway/33 mpg combined
- Civic Hybrid, with the best EPA marks of any four-door sedan—44 mpg city/44 mpg highway/44 mpg combined
- Civic GX, which runs on readily available compressed natural gas instead of gasoline and will be offered in all 50 states
- Civic Si, packing a 201-hp I4 engine for high-efficiency high performance
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