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New car sales price Honda Civic hatch

All Civic hatch models have Bluetooth audio streaming, cruise control with speed limiting facility and a reversing camera.

Fierce rivalry in the bubbling small-car sector has led one player - Honda - to take the knife to its Civic hatchback prices. One version has had $4500 wiped off its sticker price compared with the same car sold in December.

Entry-level VTi-S has $2000 chopped off its price, now $20,650 yet it adds more features including a reverse camera and Bluetooth audio streaming. Honda Australia director Stephen Collins admits that the VTi-S's equipment level wasn't up to that offered by market rivals.

Honda sold almost 11,500 Civics in 2012 and while up significantly on 2011, was trounced by players including the Volkswagen Golf and Ford Focus while recording one-quarter of the volume of the category leader, the Mazda3.

Changes for 2013 also include more equipment for the mid-spec automatic-only VTi-L - which is now $25,490, down $4500 on last year's model - and the addition of a premium VTi-LN that debuts at $29,590.

The VTi-L now comes standard with extras over its 2012 model that include a push-button starter, auto dimming mirror, electric seat adjustment and privacy glass. But it replaces the outgoing model's leather upholstery with cloth.

The new VTi-LN fills out the cabin with satellite navigation with live traffic updates, DVD player and leather seats with front heaters. All Civic hatch models have Bluetooth audio streaming, cruise control with speed limiting facility, a reversing camera, six-speaker audio and Emergency Stop Signal system.
 

Neil Dowling
Contributing Journalist
GoAutoMedia Cars have been the corner stone to Neil’s passion, beginning at pre-school age, through school but then pushed sideways while he studied accounting. It was rekindled when he started contributing to magazines including Bushdriver and then when he started a motoring section in Perth’s The Western Mail. He was then appointed as a finance writer for the evening Daily News, supplemented by writing its motoring column. He moved to The Sunday Times as finance editor and after a nine-year term, finally drove back into motoring when in 1998 he was asked to rebrand and restyle the newspaper’s motoring section, expanding it over 12 years from a two-page section to a 36-page lift-out. In 2010 he was selected to join News Ltd’s national motoring group Carsguide and covered national and international events, launches, news conferences and Car of the Year awards until November 2014 when he moved into freelancing, working for GoAuto, The West Australian, Western 4WDriver magazine, Bauer Media and as an online content writer for one of Australia’s biggest car groups. He has involved himself in all aspects including motorsport where he has competed in everything from motocross to motorkhanas and rallies including Targa West and the ARC Forest Rally. He loves all facets of the car industry, from design, manufacture, testing, marketing and even business structures and believes cars are one of the few high-volume consumables to combine a very high degree of engineering enlivened with an even higher degree of emotion from its consumers.
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