2011 Honda Civic at Detroit

The 2011 Honda Civic - debut at then 2011 Detroit Motor Show

Honda are previewing the Honda Civic Concept at next month’s Detroit Motor Show and have releaed a sketch to let us know what to expect. But this isn’t really a concept, it’s the 2011 Honda Civic and it will be on sale in the US by the Spring.

Although it’s never particularly sensible to judge a car from a sketch – car companies do like to employ a little artistic license when rendering product yet to be – it seems clear that the 2011 Civic is going to get styling evolved from the Honda CR-Z with a bit of current Civic Type-R aggression thrown in as standard.

Engines will include Honda’s latest petrol engines as well as its new smaller capacity diesel engine which is expected to offer the usual formula of more for less. That’s more performance from less fuel with lower emissions.

Although sales of the 2011 Honda Civic are due to start in the States in the Spring, we’re not expecting the new Civic to go on sale in the UK until later in 2011.

By Cars UK