athensbobcat06
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Fellow forum members,
I'm currently in the market for a new car and one of my top picks to consider is the new civic, more importantly the hatchback. Of course like anything else, I'm ready to own something with a little more power and style. While the stock 1.5T in the Sport trim is likely to be fun, I've been anxiously awaiting the possibility of the SI version in hatchback body style. Of course, fingers crossed, in a few weeks Honda will let us all know what they plan on doing with this generations SI, including body-styles and power, etc. The other night I was checking out this very forum and came to a realization that there might be a good reason to believe that the hatchback will indeed come in SI flavor.
Please allow me to humor you and fuel more to the fire that is the SI rumor bucket. I think it's fair to say that the SI will come with the fancy new center mount exhaust as seen in the spy shots of the couple test mule recently. The thing that caught my eye is that the cutout in the lower bumper fascia for said exhaust is pretty darn identical (size and shape) to the cutout in the Sport trim of the hatchback. Look at its width compared to the license plate in both pictures below. Obviously the rear bumper fascia is a completely different part between the couple and hatch, but it does raise an eyebrow to the fact that at least for the bottom portion/exhaust cutout, they are very very similar in design. Seems to me that Honda will use the same fascia for both the Sport trim's dual round exhaust as well as for the single SI exhaust tip. You can see how much extra space the Sport's dual tip exhaust leaves around the shroud. Seems like they'd have that cutout a lot closer to the exhaust if the Sport is going to be the only "performance" trim for the hatch. Just my two cents
Feel free to agree/disagree with me, all comments are welcome.
I'm currently in the market for a new car and one of my top picks to consider is the new civic, more importantly the hatchback. Of course like anything else, I'm ready to own something with a little more power and style. While the stock 1.5T in the Sport trim is likely to be fun, I've been anxiously awaiting the possibility of the SI version in hatchback body style. Of course, fingers crossed, in a few weeks Honda will let us all know what they plan on doing with this generations SI, including body-styles and power, etc. The other night I was checking out this very forum and came to a realization that there might be a good reason to believe that the hatchback will indeed come in SI flavor.
Please allow me to humor you and fuel more to the fire that is the SI rumor bucket. I think it's fair to say that the SI will come with the fancy new center mount exhaust as seen in the spy shots of the couple test mule recently. The thing that caught my eye is that the cutout in the lower bumper fascia for said exhaust is pretty darn identical (size and shape) to the cutout in the Sport trim of the hatchback. Look at its width compared to the license plate in both pictures below. Obviously the rear bumper fascia is a completely different part between the couple and hatch, but it does raise an eyebrow to the fact that at least for the bottom portion/exhaust cutout, they are very very similar in design. Seems to me that Honda will use the same fascia for both the Sport trim's dual round exhaust as well as for the single SI exhaust tip. You can see how much extra space the Sport's dual tip exhaust leaves around the shroud. Seems like they'd have that cutout a lot closer to the exhaust if the Sport is going to be the only "performance" trim for the hatch. Just my two cents
Feel free to agree/disagree with me, all comments are welcome.