2017 Honda Civic Hatchback Production

2017 Honda Civic Hatchback Production

It's been a long time since Honda offered a Civic hatchback in the U.S. market—2005 saw the demise of the seventh-generation Civic Si hatch. Since then, a few things have changed: three-door hatchbacks have nearly disappeared from our market, supplanted by five-doors that often include a serious performance variant. Honda's latest Civic answers to both trends: Meet the 2017 Honda Civic Hatchback, the first five-door Civic to be sold in the U.S. in decades, and the basis for the upcoming, hotly-anticipated Civic Si and Type-R.

For the most part, the new 2017 Honda Civic Hatchback is mechanically analogous to the 10th-generation sedan and coupe already plying America's streets. That means the same 1.5-liter turbocharged inline-four murmurs under the hood, spinning the same transmissions as in the two- and four-door, either a six-speed manual or a CVT. The wheelbase is unchanged at 106 inches; overall length is 4.3 inches less than the sedan, while the roofline rises 0.8 inches higher.

Five trim lines are available, in increasing order of swank: LX, Sport, EX, EX-L Navi, and Sport Touring, the gray model shown in these photos. The six-speed manual is available only on LX or Sport models. Sport and Sport Touring examples make 180 horsepower, an increase of six over the rest of the lineup; torque, 162 lb.-ft. for all CVT models, rises to 167 in a stick-shift LX, and 177 in a Sport with the manual gearbox. If you need a spreadsheet to keep track of all this, you're not alone.

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