Used 2016 Honda Civic Touring Sedan Review
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Read what other owners think about the 2016 Honda Civic Touring Sedan.
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Andre Furtado,09/21/2016
Touring 4dr Sedan (1.5L 4cyl Turbo CVT)
The rear view camera has 3 permitted views and is confusing at first. It is best for negotiating upwards and downward slopes, but so so for left or right movements. The bottom rear camera view just behind the car is useful for parking as is the passenger side view camera.
A little longer than I wanted in a compact sedan and therefore harder to park in tight spaces. However no other … compact sedan has nearly as much trunk space. The look of the car is striking in its class especially the metallic blue color. Horn volume is puny. The car drives beautifully and steers beautifully with little or no noise. Once I was at 90 mph and had no idea I was moving that fast. Turning radius is great also for size.The rolling resistance is very low and the car goes a long distance before stopping with the foot off the pedal. I mean it can coast! Continuously variable transmission did not seem to affect the driving negatively. It picks up acceleration very quickly and is not an issue entering a highway ramp. Handles small bumps fine, but hit a big bump and the tires tell you. Great fuel efficiency especially in eco mode which I use for city driving. 30 mpg city, 40 mpg highway. Average is 37 mpg. Winter mpg falls 30% from summer mpg in Michigan. Brakes are great. Even has a brake hold if you are stuck in traffic for a while. Would have liked a volume button for navigation. It is buried deep in the screen and can't be changed easily on the run.
Price a bit on the high side but it does have a lot of technology in this price range. Love the lane guidance system ( slight steering wheel judder warning) and the brake warning system which can be adjusted to distance from the car in front. Not always optimal but useful if one is sleepy or tired. Phone pairs easily and automatically using bluetooth. Has Airplay. Remote start is great for both hot and cold days. A/C and heater comes on as appropriate to settings left in the car from previous trip with remote start. Side view camera on the right is great. Now why not a side view camera on the left? Audio was OK. There was no volume button on the panel , but there was one on the steering wheel. AC works just fine and adjustments are easily done on the run.
Both front seats are low compared to the back seat. I am 5' 11". The driver's seats has little lumbar support. A clear design flaw. The back seats on the other hand are spacious and much more comfortable. Passenger seat way too low and not adjustable and have had complaints about this. Big problem here and needs to be adjustable in the next version
The back windshield slopes such as to give a limited field of view in the rear view mirror. I saw this as a glaring safety shortfall that could have been easily fixed by design adjustments. However I do love all the warnings you get in the speedometer screen if you have left a door open, etc.
Not sure I would trade it for any other car though. It was between the Elantra Ultimate package which has similar technology features and the Honda Civic and the Honda won but not by much though. The Mazda 3 was a great driving experience , did not have the same level of technology in its touring version as did the other two cars mentioned above, but the stand alone navigation screen on top of the dash would be tempting to thieves as it can easily be ripped out and that is why that was out too. Preferred the navigation style in the Mazda and the Elantra to that in the Honda. Would have liked automatic folding in of side-view mirrors to make it easier to get it into my garage and left side blind spot view on screen as right side is great. Did not look at American brand cars due to reliability issues. Was told Subaru was good but was treated badly by several Subaru area dealers. Not sure they care for minority folks it seems as the looked eager to serve white buyers. Would not let us even take test drive! Repairs are costly. Swivel capability on the passenger side cost $700 to fix even though the rest of the assembly was fine. They get you on repairs in spades but all foreign brand cars are doing it.
Any of these three cars in their loaded versions are all high quality and will not disappoint. These are all good cars for senior citizens in their seventies, who prefer a lot of safety and technology in the car as aids to increasingly slowing reflexes, and vision impairment with age. Younger drivers may save some money with the EX version which has some of the technology features available in the touring version. Get the 1.5 L turbo engine though. Best car purchase I ever made. Battery died after 3.5 years and 30,000 miles. Maintenance issue with a/c, fixed under warranty.
Sean Evans,04/08/2016
Touring 4dr Sedan (1.5L 4cyl Turbo CVT)
I drive a lot for work. And this car is almost perfect for the job.
1. The car literally can almost drive itself.
2. Seriously...The adaptive cruise control is amazing in stop and go traffic. It even comes to a complete stop.
3. The lane watch technology follows the striped lines on the road. Steering is required.
4. I set a beep to warn to brake for being to close to the car in front … of me.
5. And the lane departure helps as well.
The car's technology is decent. The apple play is convenient but they added to many other options to connect and it's just in the way.
Mountain Time,12/13/2015
Touring 4dr Sedan (1.5L 4cyl Turbo CVT)
Drove the new Honda Accord and Civic. The Accord is really nice but the Civic was just more comfortable for me. The Touring model has every option anyone would want except for blind spot monitoring on drivers side. That would have been nice. Driving the car in mixed driving, I got 38mpg on the first tank. That was calculated. The car was saying 40. Not bad considering the my 2015 Prius … was 5 mpg off. The power of this car is nice. The drive is very comfortable. I can see this car getting 42-45 on the highway. Not bad at all since my Prius only got 46. The fit and finish of this car rival the luxury cars. Honda hit a home run on this one.
YP,04/04/2016
Touring 4dr Sedan (1.5L 4cyl Turbo CVT)
I'm so glad I found the civicx.com forum and the many owners with my same 2016 Honda Touring issues (http://www.civicx.com/threads/loud-popping-noise-upon-startup-touring.1279/).
After reading, if you have the same issue, please post there and also contact Honda technical support to hopefully get them to address this widespread and very "unpublicized" issue.
I just purchased my … Touring 6 days ago - March 2016, and have been to the dealership 2x, and have to figure out how to take it back AGAIN tomorrow. According to other owners on civicx.com, I can look forward to dozens of more visits that do not result in any type of long term "fix".
First the charging port unit was broken (used to be called a cigarette lighter). Apparently it was installed wrong. They also had to address my Bluetooth issue- where when playing music the audio drops, sounds choppy and skips over and over and over in the song, and also the issue where there is absolutely no sound when starting the car from time to time. Mind you, I experienced all of these issues within the first 4 hours of having the car!!
The day after my purchase, I dropped off my new Touring to the service department. Three days later service tells me they couldn't replicate the audio issues, but that they called Honda Technical Support who advised there is no issue. So in the end they refreshed the system and let me know it should be fine now. Nope.
Not 10 minutes after driving off the lot it happened again. I took it back and they sat with me and confirmed the issue WAS there and indeed was VERY annoying. They said that the Honda techline advised that now since the service department tech has replicated the issue, they can confirm its a KNOWN issue that requires a software update that they haven't produced yet. I was told that I will need to call consistently to see if an update has been created, and in the meantime to avoid Bluetooth and use CarPlay for audio and sent on my way.
The next day I experienced the no audio issue again at start up. One day after that I get that full volume power surge popping sound that blasted my ears and I'm sure my speakers are damaged because of it!!! It didn't matter what source of audio it was set to (Bluetooth, AM, FM, XM, CarPlay), or whether or not I turned the audio off, and didn't stop even after pulling over and restarting/shutting down/restarting the car. After one last huge pop it finally stopped but left me with absolutely NO audio for my 2 hour drive - I had to use my earbuds and cellphone for music! I now have to make yet ANOTHER drive to Honda to get service to look at it again and at least document my issues in case future action is necessary.
I'm glad I'm not the only one going through this with their brand new Civic Touring, but to know so many have the same issues with the Touring is really unnerving. No idea why is there no coverage on this publicly so that it lights a fire under Honda to get more resources allocated towards fixing these major issues!!! We paid extra for the better speakers, audio and technology, but are unable to use them from day 1 with no fix in sight. To now have to consider bringing a little speaker with me to hook to my iPhone in order to get music on my sometimes 1-2 hour commutes is unbelievable and should be taken seriously by Honda.
My ultimate hope is that the speakers are covered under warranty because I'm sure that's going to come in handy soon with the sporadic high volume popping.
I still think the car itself is absolutely beautiful, but I am disgusted with Honda at this point because the issue has been happening to people on the civicx.com forum since December 2015!!
My hope is the more this issue is publicized, the harder Honda will work to fix it, or do a recall for the affected cars (not sure if all are affected).
Edmunds Summary Review of the 2016 Honda Civic Touring Sedan
Pros & Cons
- Roomy cabin filled with high-quality materials
- lots of trunk space for all your gear
- ride and handling expertly balanced between comfort and athleticism
- excellent fuel economy and performance from turbocharged 1.5-liter engine
- numerous available advanced technology and safety features.
- Touchscreen interface is a bit confusing and slow to respond to inputs
- depending on the tech you want, the Civic can be pricey: slow-responding adaptive cruise control and overly vigilant forward collision warning safety system are irksome.
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