And the Si only comes in manual with low profile tires - both can be seen as negatives to different people.

Maybe they wanted a hatchback specifically....Si only comes in coupe and sedan. And tbh I love the 10th gen Civic, but the Sedan, in Si form looks awful. The overhangs with the sport bumpers are HUGE and ugly and the coupe is the only one I would buy. 

“It’s the tickle down effect of Honda and Acura making boring ugly cars for so long. “

1st Gear :

I have to disagree with the current gen Mazda 3having worse materials than its competitors. The interior feels much more upscale than the Civic which feels very cheap and plasticky.

Also, I read the infonav system even has a menu to change the chime volume—I believe its for the left- and right-turn indicators. That’s kinda neat.

I believe that is a Honda Civic, no? And YIKES.

Have you actually heard of any of these style screens breaking? I haven’t. Not saying they can’t break, but I haven’t heard of any breaking. 

An unprotected, easily broken, and veeery expensive piece of equipment to replace when it is inevitably jostled and damaged

Get an Audi, Mercedes, Honda, Hyundai, etc, and eventually you will be paying a thousand dollars to replace a freestanding screen that you hit with your computer bag when you were throwing the bag into your car.

If you are so deliberately clumsy that you are literally throwing computer bags into your car and bashing them against the IP, then, yeah, maybe you should have a screen like this. For the rest of us normies, we’re fine with the screen being up top and unencumbered by massive hoods and housings. We like more free space…

*HOT TAKE* You could just be careful when getting into your car, and not be a neanderthal tossing expensive stuff everywhere breaking more expensive stuff. 

I can’t explain it.

Why wouldn’t they put it on the new Civic chassis?

Yeah it’s just a refresh, not a new gen

Hang on-

For those who really want a 2013 civic 

And this is why you still don’t buy an early production car in 2018.

Why disappointing? They strive to be perfect, but no person and no company in the world is. They found this error early, corrected it on subsequent copies of the car, were able to discover it themselves instead of it coming out during an investigation AFTER a crash, and they’ve gone above and beyond to make the…

What’s disappointing?  Mistakes happen, some make it through to customers.  Subaru caught it and is doing the right thing here.  Sounds pretty good to me.