The road to recovery can be long—just ask Honda’s Civic. The small-car benchmark for decades, the Civic started to go awry when it transitioned from a normal-looking sedan, coupe, and (occasionally) hatchback to a futuristic, windswept-tadpole-shaped thing in 2006. It wasn’t just the styling that threw us for a loop; the weird two-tiered dashboard and lack of driving zest outside of the hot Si models did the car no favors, and neither did the increasing goodness of the Civic’s competition. But things weren’t truly dire until 2012, when that year’s new Civic became so un-Civic-like as to force Honda into redesigning its redesigned compact sedan for 2013. READ MORE ››
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