2019 Honda Civic Sport with only 3,000mi. The car is brand new, no scratches, dents or any damage. Fresh and clean interior. Sport package with lots features. 18 sport wheels, OEM sport exhaust. Car play system, backup camera, keyless entry with push button start, lane keeping assist, adaptive cruise control.

Overview

Against the 2019 Mazda3, the 2019 Civic loses a couple of points in the Look and Feel department. The Mazda looks and feels like a way more expensive car—as if it were designed to attract buyers away from an Audi A3 or Mercedes-Benz A-Class. It’s easily the most stylish entry-level compact car today. But the Civic brings its own brand of upscale style, with a new gloss-black upper grille, a revised lower bumper, and larger 18-inch wheels. The sedan’s silhouette is graceful, not frumpy. When it came out, I compared its profile to an Audi A7’s, and I stand by that today. The hood is long enough to balance the sizable cabin and short tail, which features wraparound LED lights like nothing else on sale. My Touring-trim test car came with chrome door handles and LED headlights that look like hundreds of tiny crystals—and these lights are as bright as they are pretty. For 2019, Honda added a new Sport trim with a center-mounted exhaust and some of the exterior flash of the performance-oriented Si trim for thousands of dollars less.

The Civic Hatchback is also available and is listed as a separate model on CarGurus. The 4-door hatchback has a tall and aggressive rear end—like a building was stacked onto the sedan’s trunk. The Coupe model is the more balanced alternative to the hatchback, although the max-attack Civic Type R (also a separate model) is available only in hatchback form. That’s basically a race car that dedicated speed freaks will buy—I love it—but it has almost nothing else in common with other Civics besides the H logo. On the Coupe and Hatchback, there are some unique paints that would look at home on a Lamborghini or Porsche (try lime green or a flat, bluish gray). In any color, you’ll notice the Civic in traffic—in a good way.

The interior keeps a high-tech, yet simplified, theme. There’s a central LCD screen for the tachometer and speedometer, a thin center stack with minimal buttons, and clean, linear lines. Panel gaps are tight, and the car’s fit and finish feel high quality, even if the rear doors have hard plastic surfaces versus the padded ones up front. Despite a starting price under $20,000, the Civic has switchgear, buttons, and fabrics that feel built to last.