Honda Cars : Honda Civic Wagon Concept Looks Beautiful in Geneva [Live Photos] | 2013 New Honda Car Reviews 0

When Honda says the Civic Wagon or Tourer is a concept, it actually means they haven't finished the interior yet, as the body you see here is pretty much what will roll off the line in Swindon next year.

Following the recent trend for shooting brakes, the first wagon version of the Civic is drop-dead gorgeous, at least by Honda standards. Even if we ignore the glistening white headlights that won't be the same on the production car, the flush door pillars make the side profile look like some sort of Pininfarina concept, not something you use to take the kids to school.

The production version of the Civic Tourer will be in dealerships in early 2014 and will be built alongside the hatchback model in Honda’s production facility in Swindon, Wiltshire. It will be available with the very same choice of four engines, two petrol and two diesel, as the Civic hatch.

We expect the pick of the bunch to be either the economical new 1.6 i-DTEC diesel with 120 PS and 300 Nm or the more powerful 2.2-liter diesel for people who really need to hall…

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Honda Cars : Honda UK: Honda Planning Small Diesel Car | 2013 New Honda Car Reviews 0

More diesel news, but not for us in North America.... Eco-conscious Car Finance buyers will no doubt by happy to hear that HONDA has confirmed the company's plans to launch a car with a smaller diesel engine to place it in a better position to compete with European car manufacturers. David Hodgetts, Managing Director of Honda UK, told Fleet News in an interview that the company plans to introduce the new engine about a year after the launch of the next-generation Civic model. The possibility also exists that it will be available in some Honda Jazz and Honda Accord models. Honda initially started offering cars with diesel engines in 2004 when they launched an Accord powered by a diesel engine. Subsequently, they also introduced a diesel-powered Civic and a CR-V. The original 2.2 litre 140 i-CTDi engine was used in the CR-V up to 2007 when it was replaced with the new i-DTEC engine delivering 150 bhp. The diesel Accord also switched to this engine in 2008. Honda's competitors were, however, able to attract more business because they offered a wider range of diesel engines. The smaller diesels offered by many European manufacturers allowed them to offer cheaper models aimed at the car finance market, while Honda could only compete in the upper end of the market. The new diesel-powered Honda Civic will apparently have CO2 emission figures of less than 110g/km. Given the popularity of upper-medium cars such as the 1.6-litre CITROEN C5, PEUGEOT 508, FORD Mondeo and Volswagen Passat among car finance fleet owners, it is highly likely that Honda will eventually also bring out an Accord fitted with the new engine. Source; http://www.creditplus.co.uk/used-car-and-finance-news/HONDA/Honda-Planning-Small-Diesel-Car/998699564/