2005 Honda Civic - Overview
For 2005, Honda's sporty Civic Si hatchback returns with no new changes. Last year, the exterior received a freshened look with redesigned tail lamps and headlights, while the interior trim was also updated.
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The Civic Si hatchback seems to polarize people. Its huge, flat windshield is steeply raked, and its nose slopes radically downward, generating excellent aerodynamics and allowing great visibility outward. The Si is slab-sided, without any sculpture in the sheet metal, though in 2004 better proportioned 16-inch wheels gave the car more character by better filling the wheel wells. Downshifting short is fun, too. Barely push in the clutch pedal, and casually flick the lever into the next-lower cog. The Civic Si's transmission ratios seem perfectly matched to the engine, all quite close so a driver can keep the engine running in that higher-rev rocket zone at just about any road speed. And the Honda transmission is so tight and well machined that you can easily quick-shift up to the next gear without using the clutch at all. On the highway, the Civic Si delivers good performance for passing, accelerating from legal speeds to supra-legal speeds fairly quickly. The Si goes from 0-60 mph in a tick under 8 seconds, making it one of the quicker cars in this class. Charge too fast into a corner and the Civic Si will understeer. That means the front tires lose some of their grip and the car wants to push off the outside edge of the road. This understeer comes by design, because it's actually a safe response to too much speed: a driver's natural reaction is to lift off the gas and slow down, and the car will generally tuck in and track nicely through the curve. That said, the Si will be traveling faster than other Civics before it begins to understeer excessively. Its tires, front and rear stabilizer bars, shocks and springs are designed for sharper handling, but the ride quality remains better than tolerable. And at 80-90 mph, the Si feels very stable.
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The Civic is Hondas compact car, offered in sedan, coupe, and hatchback versions. First introduced as a small, inexpensive hatchback in 1972, the Civic has increased in size while continuing to offer excellent fuel economy. The 7th generation Civic arrived as a 2001 model and the Civic Si returned for 2002.
Honda Civic Si scores class win in 25 Hours of Thunderhill ...
Competing in its first sanctioned motorsports event, the all-new 2006 Honda Civic Si placed first and second in class at the grueling 25 Hours of Thunderhill endurance race at Thunderhill Raceway Park in Willows, California.
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