A look at what's changed since the first Civic went on sale in the early 1970s for under $2000.
It might seem odd to fawn over an economy car, but where the Honda Civic is concerned, it has earned our respect. When it debuted in 1972, Americans were listening to Carole King records the size of the Civic's first wheels. It was a weird decade, but in a country of bell-bottoms and roller skates along came a Japanese hatchback with a transversely mounted 1.2-liter engine. The first Civic was everything other small cars weren't.
, we said, "For convenience on congested inner-city streets it is without peer." Quality and optimism were in short supply in the early 1970s, and the Civic had both in spades.In 1974, Honda added a larger engine to the Civic measuring 1237 cubic centimeters. Horsepower was up by two for a total of 52 hp, which is pretty impressive given the minuscule increase in displacement.
Although Honda managed to sell a respectable 43,119 Civics in 1974, it was the arrival of the CVCC engine in 1975 that established the Japanese maker as a credible threat to the old guard. While the majority of automakers where begrudgingly fitting exhaust catalysts to their vehicles in order to meet the nation's tightening emissions standards, Honda quietly went to work and found a better way.
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