Where to begin with the 2012 Civic Si? Well first off with only four more horsepower it isn’t going to be any faster than the outgoing 2011 model. However it has 170 torques that will pack a higher mid range punch. There may be more to speed than horsepower, a full test will be needed to confirm this. You may be thinking that so far this Si sounds quite nice, who wouldn’t mind more torque lower down in the rev range? But wait, a 7,000-rpm redline? Oh dear friends something it seems has gone terribly awry.
Civic Si’s have always been about revving the piss out of a small engine that had a redline of galactic altitudes. The problem is the new Si has a redline roughly where the last Si would hit its Vtec mark. What does this mean for the new Civic? I'm not certain I can answer that question. To me it seems as though the entire Honda ideology has shifted since its brutal execution of the S2000. The Civic was Honda’s Vtec golden boy ever since and now its future looks bleak. Obviously the Civic will be around long after the extinction of the human race, but will it still be the Civic we know and love? Or will it go the way of so many other small racers, a slow death at the hands of those who would rather plant a tree than plant the accelerator to the floor.
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