The 2025 Honda Civic Hybrid Combines Si-Like Power With Crazy Efficient Fuel Economy

As consumer demand for hybrid electric vehicles continues to increase it seemed like the perfect opportunity for Honda to reintroduce a nameplate to the states that we haven't seen for about a decade. Today I'm actually at a studio just outside of Detroit Michigan and these two vehicles here are the all-new 2025 Civic Hybrid. Let's take a first look. So it's crazy to think that it's been about three years since Honda first introduced the all-new 11th generation Civic here in North America and this vehicle has continued to be a very strong seller for Honda despite America's and every other market's insatiable appetite for SUVs. So for 2025 the Civic in addition to offering a hybrid powertrain is also getting a styling refresh. But before we start talking about the changes I want to talk about what's going on underneath the hood. Now sadly I can't pop the hood for you today but both of these vehicles here have their new hybrid powertrain. It's kind of similar to the one that we've seen Honda introduce in other markets for the Civic Hybrid. They call it the E-HEV in other markets but basically the company was a little light on details but I'm going to assume this vehicle is going to have a two-liter naturally aspirated four-cylinder with their two-motor hybrid system. That's kind of similar to what we see in the new Accord and the new CR-V of course. The Civic should only be available with front-wheel drive. You guys remember the CR-V offers all-wheel drive but in the Accord they only offer front-wheel drive and Honda basically said the output number should be around 200 horsepower for the combined output and 232 pound-feet of torque. That makes it the most powerful non-type-r Civic that Honda has ever produced and I have to say 232 pound-feet of torque is pretty impressive. You guys remember the 2015 Civic Hybrid had only around 110 horsepower and 127 pound-feet of torque so that's nearly double the output and the company also says that they are targeting 50 mpg combined which would put it right along its main competitor which is the Toyota Prius which also was just recently redesigned. If you guys are also wondering, the company will offer another engine. It'll be the base two-liter naturally aspirated four-cylinder that made around 158 horsepower though that powertrain will be standard in the LX and in the Sport trim level and then there are two new trims the Sport Hybrid which is its own trim and then this model that I'm showing you here is the Sport Touring trim. The interesting twist however is Honda has removed the 1.5 liter turbo engine from the option list which means there's no more manual transmission available on the Civic which technically you could only get it on the hatchback in previous generation or the previous years. No word right now as of this filming for the 2025 Civic Si and the Civic Type R which I'm sure Honda will be talking about as we get closer to the on-sale date of these vehicles. But let's go ahead and talk about the exterior styling tweaks because if you guys remember when this 11th generation Civic came out, I really applauded Honda for its more conservative, more mature design language and I think the styling has aged extremely well. You can see for 2025 they made some very light tweaks. You can see this Sport Touring has their standard full LED headlights with a reflector style LED for the low and high beams. You have the LED daytime running light, LED turn signal. You can see the grille has been slightly tweaked. You really have to squint at the car or have the old ones side by side to really tell. You can see the front fascia. Some of the openings have been enlarged. You have a slightly more aggressive front splitter with some functional and non-functional openings. There's also this new painted area here in between the headlight and the front bumper and I really appreciate the gloss black look with the honeycomb style along with the integrated parking sensors along with the nicely placed Honda logo. Overall I think this design is still very mature but again very conservatively changed which you know isn't a bad thing. I think this car is aging extremely well and it kind of gives off like a more like baby Accord vibes to it. Now this particular car that I'm showing you is called Blue Lagoon. This is actually exclusive to this sedan. It's a new color for 2025 and it kind of reminds me of the other color Canyon River Blue. The one the hatchback behind me is Boost Blue. We'll talk about that in a moment. There's also going to be a Solar Silver color and a Desert Sand color or Dune Sand color. That'll be exclusive to the hatchback along with the Urban Gray which you should be able to get on both. Now you can see the wheels. These are an upgraded restyled wheel. It's an 18 inch wheel wrapped in a 235 by 40 R18 tire. You can see you have all disc brakes around, all independent suspension. I really love the way the wheels look. I love the six spoke design with the kind of texture and the two-tone finish to them. You also have relatively wide tires on this vehicle and I think it really just accentuates the stance of the car. Now because this is just a refresh the overall length is still pretty much the same. The sedan is around 184 inches long. It has a 107.7 inch long wheelbase. You can see the mirrors are black painted on this Sport Touring along with black accents along the window trim. You also have a sunroof although I'm not entirely sure what trim is going to come standard with the sunroof because previously Honda used to offer an EX trim which would typically come with the sunroof but now for 2025 there is no EX trim. So it's now going to be LX which is sedan exclusive and then Sport, Sport Hybrid and then Sport Touring which is the one that I'm showing you here. Now looking at the rear you can see the changes are very subtle. Honda says they've made the taillights a little bit darker so they have like a combination of an LED and an incandescent. I would have liked to see like a little spoiler here especially for the Sport Touring but it almost has like an integrated spoiler in the actual tail or trunk lid itself. You can see there's a Sport Touring badge which is technically new for 2025 and then this is your only indication that this is a hybrid. It says hybrid on the back as opposed to in other markets where it says EHEV which kind of makes sense. That's more what people are used to here in North America and you can see the rear bumper looks pretty similar. You have nicely integrated parking sensors. No visible exhaust tip. Wasn't expecting that of course. A lot of manufacturers have been removing that feature and then if you look at the trunk capacity the sedan has around 14.4 cubic feet of space. The seats do fold down in a 60-40 manner. You have these hinges that crush your cargo and then if you look underneath the floor here no spare tire. It looks like it just has a fix-a-flat kit but it's still a very usable size trunk. But let's go ahead and hop or walk over to the hatchback model which this color we've technically already seen already. It's Boost Blue. This is exclusive to the hatchback trim and I have to say the styling changes are even more minimal on this car. The front facial looks pretty much the same. The difference with the hatchback obviously is in the overall length and the rear area. This vehicle is around 179 inches long so it's around five inches shorter versus the sedan. As you can see the Sport Touring also has a sunroof back here. You have the black trim that goes really well with the Boost Blue exterior color and then over at the rear this is where the hatch is going to have obviously a different look and you have a taillight design that is a bit more distinctive. You have like an LED combination as usual. Honda also says that they've made the taillights a little bit darker tinted here. You have a rear wiper on the glass to show again that this is a hatch and then your only indication is the hybrid badge because they did offer a Sport Touring on the 2024 hatch but again the hybrid feature is a new touch. Now looking at the cargo area of the hatch this is why a lot of people tend to choose this model because it offers around 24.5 cubic feet of space. So 10 more cubic feet versus the sedan. You can see underneath the floor here there's also no temporary spare tire just to fix the flat kit. A little bit of storage although it could be bigger if you fold down the seats. Honda doesn't actually have an actual number for total cargo capacity but the previous generation had around 46 cubic feet so I imagine this one should be pretty similar. Moving to the interior of the 2025 Honda Civic Hybrid. First of all we're sitting inside the sedan because I wanted to show you the lighter color interior. The hatch over there has a black interior which just doesn't show up as well on camera but as I get in and shut the door you can see the door still has that wonderful solid sounding thunk and the Civic already had one of the best interiors in the segment especially when it came to the design to the interior quality. In terms of technology that's where Honda was lacking a little bit and they did make some updates this year. However before we start talking about that let's go ahead and talk about the materials. So the door panel of this Sport Touring has a nice soft touch injection molded plastic. There's some piano black plastic here. You have that gray leather and actual stitching here where you rest your elbows. The window controls they are one touch for the front windows which is also a really nice touch. The rear however is not one touch but again it is all power windows, no power folding mirrors, no memory seats and you do have an eight-way power adjustable driver seat here although it still is lacking a lumbar support. Now in terms of the seats I want to also briefly talk about this. I actually like the way the seats look. They look pretty much the same as the pre-refresh model. You can see they're perforated but they are only heated so some competitors do offer a cooled seat. You can see on the passenger side they do have a four-way seat but it's no height adjustment no lumbar but it's nice to see that Honda at least included a power passenger seat. Typically in this segment you have a manual adjusting passenger seat and a power driver seat but the rest of the dash you can see looks pretty much identical. You have a steering wheel that has a manual tilt telescoping adjustment with a good a good amount of adjustability. You have paddles on the wheel to that I believe control the regen braking because the transmission in this car if you guys remember is interesting. Honda uses kind of like a dual stage transmission in the car so it primarily functions as a direct drive one speed transmission but it can also function as an e-cvt. Now I'm getting this information from other Honda vehicles that use the hybrid powertrain. The company wasn't ready to talk about what the actual transmission is in this car but we can assume essentially that the gas engine primarily spins as a generator that that drives a propulsion motor and it provides electric power most of the times but it can couple up to the front drive shaft and give you engine and electric power at the same time and that's why the transmission can function as a cvt or a direct drive transmission. Now going back to the interior you can see the dashboard has a soft touch injection molded plastic. I still love this design for the air vent where you have a continuous honeycomb shape. You still have these really nice feeling joysticks to control the airflow. It feels pretty high quality. You have these really nice feeling knobs and switches where it has a satisfying click. You can see there's three level heated seats. You have dual zone automatic climate control and then you can see with this Sport Touring trim you have a 10.2 inch fully digital cluster. Now that cluster is slightly customizable. You can see the tach has been replaced with like a power meter. You still have a traditional dial for the battery charge and the fuel indicator and then over here on the center stack you can see this Sport Touring has the company's signature nine inch display that includes a volume knob and some actual shortcut buttons. The difference is the software. So this is the first Civic ever to include Google built-in. Now I'm not entirely sure if the Google built-in feature is only included on this Sport Touring trim. The company wasn't ready to divulge those kind of details with the packaging but you can see the layout is a little bit different. You can see there's the Google Maps that's kind of built in. It's pretty similar to what we see in the new Accord. You also are going to have wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. You can see there's a new screen here to show how much charge is in the battery, the fuel efficiency and the range obviously and then it also because it has Google built-in you can also use voice commands and it's you know a really nice system. I've loved and I've enjoyed using it in the new Accord but I kind of wish that Honda had made the screen a little bit larger because as you guys know some competitors are going to a 12 inch display even in the compact sedan segment. Now down here in the center console you can see things are pretty similar. You have a wireless phone charging pad here, two USB-C charging ports, an actual power outlet. You have this shifter here that's very traditional that controls the dual mode transmission. Then you have your drive mode selector here which right now the car is uh and it's like I guess transport mode. I can't actually adjust the drive mode. Electronic parking brake and I also applaud Honda for not using a piano black plastic here. Instead this won't attract scratches or fingerprint marks and it has an interesting textured aluminum feel to it. Nice padded center console here. If I open this up you can see there's a pretty decent amount of storage underneath here. No additional charging ports. Honda decided to put it up in the center area here and then above me you can see there's a standard size sunroof which also opens up to vent air. It has a traditional manual shade. There's some LED map lighting in here but I'm not entirely sure if there's some ambient lighting in this car. I think the Sport Tourings will have slight ambient lighting and then if you look at the glove compartment here you can see it's damped but not lined with felt. It's a bin style. It offers a decent amount of storage. So overall the interior of the Civic Hybrid hasn't really changed too much aside from the new infotainment system. The seats feel comfortable and supportive but it still is definitely one of the more higher quality interiors and this top trim also comes with a 12 speaker Bose stereo system which is not new but it's nice that Honda at least offers higher quality audio as opposed to previous generations. But let's go ahead and hop into the backseat area of the Civic because uh when they stretch the wheelbase by about an inch and a half compared to the prior generation you did get slightly more rear seat legroom. Now this model here the sedan has around 37.4 inches. Now 37.4 inches is a good amount. This is among the best in the segment for a compact sedan. So you can see at five foot seven this is pretty much where I'd have the seat to drive. My feet goes underneath the floor. There's a good amount of space. There is a hump here which I don't know why. This is a front wheel drive vehicle. There's no need for the hump. Sadly no rear seat air vents or USB charging ports or anything. I think that for a Sport Touring it should have some of those features. You can see material quality back here is hard touch plastic. There's some more piano black plastic trim at least. It's nice and padded over here with this silver painted accented door handle and you can see the headrest back here are fixed into position and there's also an armrest that folds down and gives you two cup holders. Headroom space also is pretty decent although the sunroof obviously takes up a little bit of space. If you're taller you might find your head getting a little closer to the roof but overall you can see the backseat is usable for average size to slightly taller adults and honestly compared to other compact vehicles this does have a little bit more space. So before we wrap this video up I thought I'd show you guys really quickly the front fascia of this Boost Blue Civic Hybrid Hatchback. You can see compared to the sedan it practically looks the same right down to all the little details with the new honeycomb style grille, the full LED headlights, this new painted portion here in between the bumper and the actual grille assembly, and then down here you can see same lower front splitter with this non-painted area over here although it's definitely more noticeable on this color because in the Blue Lagoon it's a little bit more dark. So overall I think it's kind of a missed opportunity. I wanted Honda to give the hatch a slightly more unique front fascia but again this is a very good looking vehicle so it doesn't surprise me that they share the same front end. But this vehicle being five inches shorter in the overall length actually doesn't affect the rear seat legroom so if you look at the backseat area of the hatch you still have the same 37.4 inches of legroom which again is among the best in the segment. This sport touring here still lacks a rear seat air vent or any kind of power outlets back there but again it is a Civic so you kind of have to remember the class of vehicle that it does play in. And then looking at the rear of the vehicle as you guys saw before it has the same kind of similar look with the darkened taillights. But if you guys are looking to get your hands on the 2025 Civic Hybrid in both the hatch and the sedan body style Honda says that they are basically heading to dealerships next month so in June and the company wasn't ready to talk about final pricing just yet. The current Civic starts at around $23,950 for the base LX sedan. The hatch starts about $1,000 higher. I'm talking about 2024 pricing. So Honda did say that the pricing for the 2025 model for the base engine should hold pretty close to the 2024 models and then they also basically said that if you're looking for the hybrid model it should come in at under $30,000 as that starting price. So again the hybrid should account for about 40 percent of sales for the Civic family. Honda basically said that they're expecting a lot of consumers to choose this because if you want the hybrid powertrain it's going to come on the two top trims. So the Sport and the Sport Hybrid and of course the Sport Touring over here. 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