2020 Civic Hatchback Gets Styling Updates, Tech Upgrades, Manual For Sport Trim

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I'm on my fifth Honda vehicle with Honda Sensing. For better or worse, it works virtually the same in all of them. As far as the individual features go:

Adaptive Cruise Control - LOVE it for relaxed, safe, convenient driving on two-lane roads when I'm stuck behind slower-moving traffic. Aggressive drivers who follow too closely in the city or on congested highways often complain about it. It's easy to switch to "regular" cruise control, though.

Lane Keeping Assist System - It often misinterprets faint or non-existent road markings or misses obvious ones and slowly oscillates from side to side. I've found it useful for "grabbing the wheel" for a few seconds while I'm sneezing and blowing my nose, but not much else. In my experience, it's a novelty at best and I rarely use it.

Road Departure Mitigation - Although I might do it on my way home today, I've yet to run off the road in 30 years of driving because I pay attention. I have to turn RDM off because it sometimes incorrectly interprets differences in pavement color, long gouges, or worn lanes as the edge of the road and will annoyingly tug on the steering wheel thinking that I've left my lane.

Automatic High Beams - Very convenient feature. It's not perfect, but it's often more attentive than I am at choosing between low and high beams. Sometimes, I'll forget to switch to high beam when I should or, less rarely, forget to dim when approaching oncoming traffic.

Collision Mitigation Braking System - I believe this is the most valuable feature of Honda Sensing. Hopefully, you'll never need it, but none of us are as good or attentive of drivers as we believe we are. We're human and we make mistakes. CMBS can also see through heavy snow and thick fog because of the radar - we can't, so it could very well save your life. So far, I've yet to cause a wreck, but shortly after I bought my first vehicle with Honda Sensing - a 2016 CR-V Touring - I was foolishly distracted by the radio while driving down a two-lane road at 55 MPH when all of the sudden, the vehicle started beeping then quickly came to a full stop. By the time my brain processed the occurrence, I looked up and saw a red Pontiac Grand Prix stopped in the road waiting to turn into a driveway. I simply failed to see the vehicle. The CMBS feature saved a lot of expense and possibly lives that day. I never want another vehicle with it. It has braked unexpectedly a few times over the years, but almost always it's in situations where I shouldn't have been following so closely such as when behind vehicles that have slowed to turn into parking lots.
Thanks, I mainly want the last one for exactly as you said, was just curious about the others. I've had a few brake pedal to the floor near misses now that I drive so much.
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@zroger73 - you nailed it with your post re: Honda Sensing. And I totally agree with you regarding CMBS. That feature alone has saved me but not because I was inattentive but because it saw something in the road before I did: Deer. I have a stretch of road near my house that often deer cross. I know this and I'm aware and drive cautiously but wild animals are unpredictable. On one occasion it was a night and I'm heading down that road and suddenly the "BRAKE" message lights up and I feel my CR-V braking to a stop. I sort of freak out because I don't really see any car ahead. Instead it was a deer frozen in the road. The second time was in my hatchback and again, Honda sensing saw the deer (or object) in the road and stopped me before I even noticed. It's a helluva safety feature. Besides CMBS, the adaptive cruise is my other most often appreciated feature.
So it'll see deer and people not just cars, that's great.
 

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So it'll see deer and people not just cars, that's great.
Deers (and other animals too) on the road are a real problem in Slovenia, and the worst thing is that we are NOT allowed to take them home to make the best goulash in the world, we need to call the police, who then call a registered hunter to remove the carcas. Just in this year 5 colleagues had their car damaged really badly because of random animals jumping right in front of them.
 

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The puddle lights were available on my 19 coupe. Not sure if they are same part number for the hatchback. They are tedious to install...they are cool though.
I had all of the lighting kits installed at the dealer and they look pretty nice.
 

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I had all of the lighting kits installed at the dealer and they look pretty nice.
They do look cool. Do you feel the footwell lights are helpful or more for show? Debating whether to get them.
 


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I have them and they help out when you drop something down there during driving around at night.
 

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I had all of the lighting kits installed at the dealer and they look pretty nice.
Quite happy to see that I did the right decision on spending 800€ on the factory lighting kits, they look dope! To bad November is still so far away :(
 

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They do look cool. Do you feel the footwell lights are helpful or more for show? Debating whether to get them.
When it's done right, it actually dim with the rest of the interior, especially if you adjust the brightness in the cluster, all other interior lights also change.
 

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I had all of the lighting kits installed at the dealer and they look pretty nice.
That looks nice, I have a similar set up, except I choose the Mugen scuff plates instead of the illuminated ones, and I added the front door handle + cup holder illumination, it feel so complete :love:
 

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Frick. Got my car three years too early.
 


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Picked up my new 2020 Hatch 6-speed. Added black lugnuts to mesh better wjrht he color pattern of the wheels.

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Could you upload a pic of the trunk/boot space? I heard they changed some of that too. There's not a huge step in the middle as before.
 

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Could you upload a pic of the trunk/boot space? I heard they changed some of that too. There's not a huge step in the middle as before.
Here ya go. Lmk if ya want more.

Honda Civic 10th gen 2020 Civic Hatchback Gets Styling Updates, Tech Upgrades, Manual For Sport Trim 20190826_072357
 


 


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