Honda has announced changes to its lineup for 2021, some of which we've been expecting for a while—while some that are a bit of a surprise. The big news surrounds the Honda Civic, which is at the end of its current lifecycle. There's an all-new 2022 Civic on the way, and so Honda is rearranging its compact-car stalwart's lineup a bit in advance of that debut.
But the Civic Si won't hang around. It's on pause—Honda's very clear that it will return for the 2022 model year, but there won't be a 2021. There also won't be a Civic Coupe for 2021, although Honda didn't hint that body style would return in the future. That might be because the Civic Hatchback is supplanting it in sales—customers view it as the sportiest version, and coupes in general have fallen out of favor with buyers. While Honda didn't say it in so many words, we wouldn't hold our breaths for an 11th-generation Civic Coupe.
More bad (but unsurprising) news, if you're a fan of the space-efficient and surprisingly fun Honda Fit: It's dead in America. 2020 will be the final model year for the car known as the Jazz in other parts of the world, but it'll stay in production through the fall to fulfill any remaining demand before departing our shores. The reason this isn't surprising is that Honda has signaled for a while now that the funky fourth-gen Honda Fit, sold elsewhere, might not come to the U.S. Consider that confirmed today.
One final discontinuation is the Clarity Electric, but we knew about this back in March. Unloved, the company's only EV in the U.S. won't be much missed. Honda's uncompetitive 89-mile EPA range meant the Clarity, for whatever other charms it may have had, never had the right specs to compete in the small but growing EV space.
While light ha been shed on the 2021 lineup, we don't have all the details yet on the 2022 Civic. We expect it to be sleeker than the somewhat busy 10th-gen car, with improved convenience and safety throughout and a 1.5-liter turbocharged inline-four underhood. The 2.0-liter base engine, however, may go the way of the Coupe—but no major loss there. And we also expect the Hybrid to bow out, with the Insight carrying the gas-electric flame. We'll miss the spunky little Fit, but we should see great things from the 2022 Civic.
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