Civic named AutoGuide Car of the Year for 2016!

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Discussion Starter · Dec 15, 2015

Our friends over at AutoGuide have chosen the all new 10th gen Civic as their 2016 Car of the Year!

“Congratulations to the team at Honda,” said AutoGuide Group Editorial Director Colum Wood. “The new Civic is easily the best all-around package I’ve driven, not just this year, but in a very long time. It’s premium, yet sporty, and I just love that new turbocharged engine. A car that’s this good, with Honda’s reputation for quality, reliability and durability, just doesn’t come along every day.”

We know Honda benchmarked far more upscale cars when developing the 2016 Civic and it shows; beating out the brand new Mustang Shelby GT350.

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Nessuno

· #2 · Dec 15, 2015

Surprised it beat the Shelby just because Mustang

CanGuy

· #3 · Dec 15, 2015

"Benchmarked far more upscale cars..."

Do we have any idea what cars it would have looked to as its benchmarks then?

goflyakuite

· #4 · Dec 15, 2015

Apparently they didn't ever attempt to use the headunit in that Touring

4Tires

· #5 · Dec 16, 2015

They don't need to!

Nah, I'm sure they did at some point to test it out. Not really surprised the civic won. It's the perfect package, Sure the Miata and Mustang had more power but the Civic is just the best option out of them all for the average driver.

A but surprised the Toyota Prius made the list, it's ugly. Reliable and fuel sipping but ugly.

5TAR

· #6 · Dec 16, 2015

I'll just take this as their opinion. For all we know there could be a bias towards the Honda or something else influencing it

Going to be cross referencing what these guys report to what other publications report.

Civil

· #7 · Dec 16, 2015

4Tires said:
They don't need to!
Nah, I'm sure they did at some point to test it out. Not really surprised the civic won. It's the perfect package, Sure the Miata and Mustang had more power but the Civic is just the best option out of them all for the average driver.

A but surprised the Toyota Prius made the list, it's ugly. Reliable and fuel sipping but ugly.

If power is something that heavily factors into the decision, we should acknowledge that the Si has not come out yet and it will be more competitive with the power of the other vehicles that the Civic has been pitted against.

4Tires

· #8 · Dec 17, 2015

Will be interesting to see which models make the list next year. The Honda Civic coupe is coming out along with the Si.

5TAR

· #9 · Dec 17, 2015

Excited to see when the Type R finally comes out and how it ranks among some vehicles like this, especially the Focus RS.

10thGenCivic

· #10 · Dec 17, 2015

Really guys... really? Did you think this was not going to happen?

4Tires

· #11 · Dec 18, 2015

Assumed the 10th Gen civic would rank high if not outright win but I can't really know for sure if it'll definitely win.

Smartie

· #12 · Dec 18, 2015

10thGenCivic said:
Really guys... really? Did you think this was not going to happen?

No, Honda spends a ton of ad dollars on AG

86r

· #13 · Dec 20, 2015

5TAR said:
Excited to see when the Type R finally comes out and how it ranks among some vehicles like this, especially the Focus RS.

I am also waiting patiently.

4Tires

· #14 · Dec 21, 2015

I'd like to think this competition was unbiased. The 10th Gen Honda civic is a great car for a great price and the Touring package has pretty much everything you need. Not sure about the Type R vs the Focus RS in the future.

CanGuy

· #15 · Dec 21, 2015

Thought I'd post a follow-up to it. They just actually presented the award in person, so we have this totally not awkward photo.

At Honda’s annual Detroit holiday party, Wood delivered the award to Honda Motor America President and CEO Takuji Yamada and company Senior Vice President and General Manager Jeff Conrad.

“Congratulations to the team at Honda,” said AutoGuide.com Group Editorial Director Colum Wood. “The new Civic is easily the best all-around package I’ve driven, not just this year, but in a very long time. It’s premium, yet sporty, and I just love that new turbocharged engine. A car that’s this good, with Honda’s reputation for quality, reliability and durability, just doesn’t come along every day.”

http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/...autoguide-com-2016-car-of-the-year-award.html

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4Tires

· #16 · Dec 22, 2015

Honda probably has a room full of awards at this point. Jeff Conrad looks a lot less awkward than the other two.

Civil

· #17 · Dec 22, 2015

Yea the picture is weird, but at the end of the day its fun for each publication to choose a car of the year, and its pretty cool they actually got to give him an award, though let's be honest, I'm sure the CEO of Honda has received an infinite amount of awards that are more exciting.

Smartie

· #18 · Dec 22, 2015

4Tires said:
Honda probably has a room full of awards at this point. Jeff Conrad looks a lot less awkward than the other two.

That's because he's the one touching Colums bum

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