Honda Civic 9th generation: history, engines, Type R and buying guide

The ninth-generation Honda Civic (2011–2017) was two cars: a five-door hatchback and Tourer estate designed for Europe and built in Swindon, and a saloon and coupe launched in North America, with the turbocharged FK2 Civic Type R added in 2015. British buyers and used-car guides call the family hatchback the Mk9. The European car made its debut at the Frankfurt motor show on 13 September 2011, and the first mass-produced example left the Swindon line on 19 December 2011. In Britain it is now a cheap, roomy used buy: 121 ninth-generation Civics sampled on PistonHeads on 28 October 2026 had a median asking price of £6,475, while the 10 FK2 Type Rs among the adverts started at £17,979.

History of the ninth-generation Honda Civic

The ninth-generation Civic began as two different cars sharing a name: Honda developed the hatchback in and for Europe and built it only in Swindon, while American Honda launched its own saloon and coupe in April 2011. The European car replaced the eighth-generation Civic of 2006, whose styling the maker's own launch press kit admitted had been "polarising".

The Frankfurt 2011 reveal

The first official photographs came out on the evening of 12 September 2011, the night before the Frankfurt show (IAA) opened. SkiddMark's report that night recorded the official facts: a car designed and developed for the European market, offered only as a five-door hatchback, with a 2.2-litre i-DTEC diesel of 148bhp (150PS) and 350Nm that emitted 110g/km of CO2. Honda's design reference was a "blended wing body" aeroplane in which fuselage and wings form one shape. Nearly every body component had been redesigned. The car was due in European showrooms in early 2012. A SkiddMark report of 31 August 2011, on Honda's teaser picture of the rear lights, called the car "something of an evolutionary change" from the eighth generation.

On the stand Takanobu Ito, president of Honda Motor, called the car "our commitment to Europe". His Frankfurt speech of 13 September 2011 said the Civic had been tested on European roads "more than any other Honda car in our history" and promised a smaller diesel by the end of 2012. Honda's preview release the same day gave the dimensions: 4,300mm long, 1,770mm wide, 1,440mm high, on a 2,595mm wheelbase.

Built in Swindon from December 2011

Honda of the UK Manufacturing in Swindon was the only factory to build the European Civic. The first mass-produced car came off the line on 19 December 2011, the day the plant resumed normal production; Honda's announcement, published by the SMMT, also created 500 jobs and forecast that Swindon's 2012 output would double to 180,000 cars. Honda UK's launch press kit expected to sell about 22,000 Civics a year in Britain, half to fleets, and described the target buyer as "around 45-years-old, predominantly male". The press kit says the car was benchmarked against the Volkswagen Golf throughout its development.

What changed for 2014 and the 2015 facelift?

The car was updated twice. For 2014 the front and rear dampers and the electric power steering were retuned, the rear suspension realigned and privacy glass and smoked rear lights added, according to Honda UK's release of 30 April 2014; prices then started at £16,995 for a 1.4 i-VTEC S. The facelift shown at the Paris motor show in October 2014 reached UK dealers in March 2015 with new headlamps carrying LED daytime running lights, a new front bumper, LED rear lights, the Android-based Honda Connect touchscreen and City-Brake Active System as standard equipment. Agile Handling Assist, which brakes individual wheels in corners, joined the stability control, and a £600 Driver Assistance Safety Pack added forward collision warning, lane departure warning, traffic sign recognition, blind spot information and high-beam support. Honda UK's price list of 26 February 2015 cut prices by up to £1,620 against equivalent 2014 cars, to £15,975 for a 1.4 i-VTEC S and £26,970 for a 1.8 i-VTEC EX Plus Tourer automatic.

When did production end?

Swindon had stopped building the FK2 Type R by January 2017: Honda UK's release of 10 January 2017 said its production had "now finished" and the plant was preparing for the tenth-generation Civic, which went on sale in March 2017. The plant built that tenth generation until car production in Swindon ended; Honda's release of 26 March 2021 set the last day for 30 July 2021.

Design and engineering of the European Honda Civic

The European ninth-generation Civic kept the eighth generation's layout: the fuel tank under the front seats, a torsion-beam rear axle and the "Magic Seats", whose rear cushions flip up like cinema seats. The press kit says the new body was 20mm lower and 10mm wider than before, with the C-pillar moved back about 100mm and a lower bottom edge to the split rear window, both to answer complaints about the old car's rear view.

Daisuke Sawai, the chief designer, said the starting point was "a droplet of water on top of a leaf". The kit names two references the designers returned to: the "blended body" aeroplane, a concept from engineers at the University of Cambridge, and low-drag swimwear. Large-project leader Mitsuru Kariya recruited aerodynamicists with Formula One experience; the car has a full-length undertray, and the diesel has a grille shutter that closes at medium speeds to cut drag, which the press kit says gave a 12.6% better drag figure (CdA) than the old diesel.

Cabin, dashboard and driving position

The dashboard keeps the eighth generation's two-level "Dual Link" layout: a digital speedometer at the top, where the driver sees it over the steering wheel, and the rev counter and other dials below, with a colour i-MID screen in the centre console. The press kit says customers and journalists had wanted better perceived quality, so the ninth generation has soft-touch materials at the points the hands meet in place of the hard plastics of earlier Civics, a change the RAC's used-car guide also notes. What Car?'s used review calls the dashboard design complicated, finds the layered dials hidden for some drivers unless the wheel is set low, and says rear headroom in the hatchback is "stingy" though legroom is good. The RAC's guide to the facelifted car praises the driving position, with rake and reach adjustment for the steering wheel and a height-adjustable driver's seat.

Boot space and Magic Seats

The hatchback's luggage space is 401 litres, or 477 litres including the 76-litre compartment under the floor, and 1,378 litres to the roof with the rear seats down, by the official figures. With the seat backs folded the flat floor is 1,600mm long and 1,350mm wide, enough, the press kit says, for three mountain bikes with their front wheels removed. The engineers kept the torsion beam, tuned on European roads for high-speed stability, because a more complex rear suspension would have cost boot space and the Magic Seats.

Suspension and chassis

The redesigned torsion beam has fluid-filled compliance bushes in place of rubber ones, and the press kit says the beam was stiffer than the arm of the previous Civic Type R. The rear subframe changed from a beam to a cradle for crash safety, with a mass damper to cut noise. Refinement was a weakness of the eighth generation, and the engineers measured noise in eight situations, from opening the door to motorway cruising, and added sound-absorbing panels in the rear wheel arches, glass wool in the engine bay and thicker front door glass.

Euro NCAP safety rating

Euro NCAP gave the five-door Civic five stars on 22 February 2012. Its datasheet for the tested 1.8 'Comfort' scores the car 94% for adult occupant protection, 83% for child occupants, 69% for pedestrians and 86% for safety assist. The car scored maximum points in the side barrier test; the only criticism in the adult section was the facia either side of the steering wheel, which could hurt the knees of drivers of other sizes. Euro NCAP also extended Honda's Advanced award for its radar-based Collision Mitigation Brake System to the Civic, an option on EX GT models at £1,900, which pairs it with adaptive cruise control and works as emergency braking.

Engines and specifications

British buyers had four engines in the hatchback: 1.4 and 1.8-litre i-VTEC petrols, the 2.2-litre i-DTEC diesel at launch and, from 2013, a 1.6-litre i-DTEC diesel. All drive the front wheels through a six-speed manual gearbox, with a five-speed automatic available on the 1.8 petrol engine only.

Figures are for the entry trim of each engine; heavier trims and larger wheels raise CO2 (the 1.8 EX GT manual is 145g/km, the 2.2 EX GT 115g/km). The 1.6 i-DTEC figures are from Honda UK's 1.6 i-DTEC press kit, the Type R's from the 2015 Type R UK press kit and the capacities from the 2015 Civic and Tourer press kit.

Petrol engines: 1.4 and 1.8 i-VTEC

Both petrol engines carried over from the eighth generation with less friction: the 1.8 gained 2PS and dropped from 152 to 137g/km, and the 1.4's CO2 fell from 135 to 129g/km. Manual cars have Idle Stop, which switches the engine off at standstill, and every Civic has ECO Assist, which colours the speedometer green when the driver is being economical. The 1.4 is badged 1.4 but displaces 1,339cc. Auto Express found it the least muscular engine in the range and, in real use, no more frugal than the 1.8 manual.

Diesel engines: 2.2 and 1.6 i-DTEC

The 2.2 i-DTEC diesel engine, with 350Nm of torque from 2,000rpm, gained 10PS of power and lost up to 29g/km of CO2 against the old Civic's 2.2 i-CTDi, which put it in the £20-a-year road tax band; it uses a balancer shaft, third-generation common-rail injection and a variable-vane turbocharger. The 1.6 i-DTEC was the first engine of the Earth Dreams Technology series in Europe and was built only in Swindon, on a new line capable of 500 diesel engines a day. Its aluminium block is open-deck, and the whole engine weighs 47kg less than the 2.2. At 94g/km it paid no road tax and was exempt from the London congestion charge when new.

Dimensions and boot capacity compared

Kerb weights in the 2015 press kit run from 1,184kg for a 1.4 hatchback to 1,440kg for the heaviest 1.6 i-DTEC Tourer; the Type R weighs 1,382kg with a full tank.

Honda Civic Tourer estate

The Civic Tourer is the estate version of the European ninth generation, revealed in August 2013 and in UK dealers from February 2014. It was designed and engineered in Europe and built in Swindon beside the hatchback. It is 235mm longer than the hatchback on the same wheelbase, and its 624-litre boot (with the seats up, to the tonneau cover) was the biggest in its class by the official figures; with the seats down it holds 1,668 litres to the roof. The loading lip is 137mm lower than the hatchback's. Honda's Tourer press kit traces the car to the Civic Aerodeck of 1998, the first Honda designed exclusively for Europe and the third model built in Swindon.

The Civic Tourer had the 1.8 i-VTEC petrol (manual or automatic) or the 1.6 i-DTEC diesel, and SR and EX models had a rear Adaptive Damper System with Comfort, Normal and Dynamic settings, which the maker called a world first for a production car. Honda UK's Tourer price list of 25 November 2013 ran from £20,265 for a 1.8 i-VTEC S to £27,460 for a 1.6 i-DTEC EX Plus. The diesel Tourer returned 74.3mpg on the official combined cycle, and its tank gave a calculated range of 817 miles. Honda's British Touring Car team raced a Tourer in 2014, the only estate on the grid, SkiddMark reported in November 2013.

Honda Civic Type R (FK2)

The FK2 Civic Type R is the high-performance version of the European ninth-generation hatchback and the first Type R with a turbocharged engine: a 2.0-litre VTEC Turbo with a single mono-scroll turbo, giving 310PS at 6,500rpm and 400Nm from 2,500rpm, through a six-speed manual gearbox and a helical limited-slip differential. The Type R was unveiled at the Geneva motor show in March 2015, and the first production car came off the Swindon line in the week before 6 July 2015, Honda UK said that day. Honda UK priced it on 3 March 2015 at £29,995, with the GT version, which added navigation and driver aids, at £32,295.

On 21 September 2012 Honda UK tweeted that a new Type R was coming in 2015 "and it's going to be fast!", with the stated aim of the front-wheel-drive lap record at the Nürburgring, then 8min 7.97sec by Renault's Mégane RS Trophy, as SkiddMark reported that day. Honda's preview figures in November 2013 were more than 276bhp and a 7,000rpm red line, which a SkiddMark preview said would disappoint fans of the old high-revving VTEC Type R, and its WTCC driver Gabriele Tarquini said after testing the car at the Nordschleife: "This car is very close to my racing car."

How fast is the FK2 Civic Type R?

The official figures are 0–62mph in 5.7sec and a top speed of 167mph, reached in sixth gear at the 6,500rpm power peak. Honda's release of 3 March 2015 announced a 7min 50.63sec lap of the 20.8km Nordschleife by a development car in May 2014, with production engine, suspension, brakes and aerodynamics; the air conditioning, passenger seat and audio were removed to offset a roll cage. The press kit says the limited-slip differential alone was worth three seconds a lap there. A +R button increases the response of the chassis and engine, aimed at track driving; evo found the chassis "harsh, uncompromising" in +R mode on the road. Brembo four-piston calipers grip 350mm front discs, the largest on any production Type R to that date, and Continental developed the 235/35 R19 tyres for the car.

How many FK2 Type Rs were made?

No total has been published, but there are two official counts. Honda UK's January 2017 release said only 2,500 FK2 Type Rs would be on UK roads, and the last 100 built were a Black Edition with a black interior with red accents and red end plates on the rear wing, priced at £32,300. Japanese buyers received 750: Honda's release of 28 October 2015 allotted them by ballot, at ¥4,280,000 each, to buyers who entered online.

UK trim levels and special editions

At launch the UK hatchback came in SE, ES, EX and EX GT trims. SE had climate control, 16-inch alloy wheels and a touchscreen display; ES added Bluetooth, cruise control, dual-zone climate control and a rear camera; EX added leather and heated seats; EX GT added a panoramic glass roof, front and rear parking sensors, xenon lights and keyless entry, with adaptive cruise control and collision mitigation braking as a £1,900 option. Auto Express records a 1.8 Ti special edition of September 2012 limited to 1,000 cars. From 2014 the trims on the hatch and the Civic Tourer became S, SE Plus, SR and EX Plus, and the RAC's used-car guide records a Black Edition of July 2014 with gloss black trim on the 1.8 petrol and 1.6 diesel. The 2015 facelift added a Civic Sport, with styling linked to the Type R, on the 1.8 petrol or 1.6 diesel.

Saloon and coupe: the North American Honda Civic and Si

American Honda's ninth-generation Civic was a different car from the Swindon hatchback: a saloon and a two-door coupe, shown at the New York motor show and put on sale across the United States on 20 April 2011. Honda's 2012 Civic press kit lists six models: the saloon and coupe with a 140hp 1.8-litre engine, a high-economy Civic HF, the Si saloon and coupe with a 201hp 2.4-litre engine and six-speed manual gearbox, the Civic Hybrid and the Civic Natural Gas. The saloon's wheelbase is 105.1in, 1.2in shorter than before. Saloons and coupes were built in Indiana and in Alliston, Ontario; the Hybrid came from Suzuka in Japan. The saloon was sold in Asia too: Honda Malaysia launched it on 12 July 2012 with 1.8 and 2.0-litre petrol engines and the Hybrid, and said more than 163,000 Civics had been sold in the US in the first half of 2012.

The Civic Hybrid had a lithium-ion battery for the first time and was rated at 44mpg (US) city, highway and combined, the most fuel-efficient saloon then on sale in the US, by American Honda's account. The HF, with aerodynamic panels, was rated at 41mpg on the highway.

Consumer Reports and the 2013 refresh

Consumer Reports dropped the 2012 Civic from its recommended list on 1 August 2011. The magazine's score for the Civic LX fell from 78 for the previous generation to 61, second-lowest of 12 small saloons and well behind the class leader, the Hyundai Elantra; it said the car was "less agile and with lower interior quality than its predecessor" with "a choppy ride, long stopping distances, and pronounced road noise", Autoblog reported that day. The magazine credited its 30mpg overall, second in the class to the Toyota Corolla's 32mpg.

The restyled 2013 saloon reached US dealers 19 months after launch. Honda's release of 29 November 2012 lists the changes for the 2013 saloon: a new front and rear, retuned steering and suspension, soft-touch interior materials, more sound insulation and a reinforced structure for narrow-overlap crashes, with a rear camera and Bluetooth standard on every model. For 2014 a CVT automatic replaced the five-speed automatic, and from March 2014 the Si made 205hp, Honda's Si release of 11 March 2014 says.

The ninth-generation Honda Civic in motorsport

The Swindon-built Civic hatchback won the British Touring Car Championship in its first two seasons, and a World Touring Car Championship manufacturers' title. Gordon Shedden won the 2012 BTCC drivers' title in Honda Racing's Civic, built to the series' NGTC rules, clinching it at Brands Hatch in the season's penultimate race. In 2013 Andrew Jordan took the title in the Eurotech team's Pirtek Civic, beating Shedden by seven points at the Brands Hatch finale after a drive from the back of the field to ninth in the last race, while the teams' and manufacturers' titles went to Honda Yuasa Racing, Autosport reported. Honda then raced the Tourer in 2014, and in 2015 the touring-car version of the Civic Type R won the BTCC drivers' and constructors' titles, Honda UK said in February 2016.

In the WTCC, Honda entered a Civic built by J.A.S. Motorsport with a 1.6-litre turbocharged engine, announced in February 2012. Its HR-412E engine was developed at Honda's Tochigi research centre, and the car was due to make its debut at Suzuka on 20 October 2012, SkiddMark reported that October. In its first full season, 2013, Honda's Civics won four races and took 20 podiums, according to Autosport's review of Honda's 2013 season; Gabriele Tarquini finished second in the drivers' standings, and Tiago Monteiro's win in Shanghai gave Honda an unassailable lead in the manufacturers' championship, SkiddMark reported on 4 November 2013.

Reliability, common problems and recalls

The ninth-generation Civic has a strong reliability record: What Car?'s 2023 used-car reliability survey of six-to-20-year-old cars placed petrol Civics second and diesels fourth, and the magazine notes that every engine uses a timing chain, so there is no cambelt to change. What Car? says the main check is for past accident repairs: straight panels around the bonnet and boot, and no creases along the sides or sills.

Common problems to check

• Soft paint that chips and scratches easily, on the bonnet, front bumper, roof and mirrors (What Car?, Auto Express).
• A windscreen washer filler cap without a retaining strap, often dropped into the engine bay (What Car?, Auto Express).
• Automatic wipers that stop working; disconnecting the battery, a new sensor or a software update can cure it (Auto Express).
• Uneven panel gaps, above all around the tailgate (Auto Express).
• Rear brake pads that wear out in about 25,000 miles, electric windows that fail and vibrating trim panels (RAC).
• On the Type R, front pads and discs: evo's long-term FK2 had used 80% of them by its first service at 10,891 miles.

Rear visibility is the other complaint: Autotrader's review found the spoiler across the rear window still "gets in the way", although it was lowered for this generation and a wiper added.

UK recalls

The DVSA's recall file, downloaded on 28 October 2026, lists six recalls whose Civic build dates fall in the ninth generation's run. The first (R/2012/122, 244 cars built from 27 October 2011 to 4 September 2012) fixed software that could let the engine start in gear without the clutch pressed. Two in 2016 replaced the ABS and stability-control modulator: 769 Civics built between 29 February and 31 March 2016 could lock a wheel under ABS braking, and 97 built from 12 to 18 April 2016 could lose stability control. The fourth, launched in January 2020 (R/2020/008), updated the engine software on Civics, CR-Vs and HR-Vs built from February 2015 to May 2018 because emissions did not meet the regulations. Two more replaced driver's airbag inflators that could rupture: R/2016/045 covers Civics, Jazz, CR-V, FR-V and Legend models built from March 2004 to 20 May 2015 (252,174 vehicles in all), and R/2019/246 eight Hondas built from June 2007 to 21 May 2014. What Car? counts three recalls for this generation, the third a change to the 1.6 diesel's mass airflow sensor to stop false readings in cold weather.

Running costs

Road tax for a ninth-generation Civic follows its CO2 figure, because every one was registered before April 2017. At the GOV.UK rates read on 28 October 2026, a 1.6 i-DTEC (94g/km) or 2.2 i-DTEC (110g/km) costs £20 a year, a 1.4 i-VTEC (129g/km) £170, a 1.8 manual (137g/km) £200, a 1.8 automatic £225 and a Type R (170g/km) £325. Servicing is every 12 months or 12,500 miles, and the new-car warranty was three years or 90,000 miles. What Car? expects a 1.6 diesel to manage more than 65mpg in normal driving and the 2.2 about 55mpg.

How much is a ninth-generation Honda Civic worth?

Most ninth-generation Civics in Britain are advertised for £3,000 to £10,000: 96 of the 121 in this sample. SkiddMark read the PistonHeads adverts for 2012 to 2016 Civics and 2015 to 2016 Type Rs on 28 October 2026: of the 187 Civics listed (excluding Type Rs) 121 were sampled, and the 10 distinct Type R adverts were all FK2s.

Diesels sell for less than petrols because they have covered more miles: the median diesel in the sample had done 97,500 miles against 69,900 for the petrols. The dearest Type R, at £35,000, had covered 47 miles. Cars registered in 2015 had the highest median, £8,795.

Rivals

The Mk9 is a family hatchback, and the launch press kit named the Volkswagen Golf as its benchmark and the Ford Focus as a competitor. Its table compared the 2.2 diesel with the Golf 2.0 TDI, Focus 2.0 TDCi and Vauxhall Astra 1.7 CDTi. Auto Express's used guide adds the Volvo V40 and Mazda 3, and What Car? suggests the Hyundai i30 and Kia Cee'd to buyers who want a newer car with a longer warranty. The FK2 Type R's rivals were the Renault Mégane RS 275 Trophy-R, the Volkswagen Golf GTI Clubsport S, Golf R and Ford Focus RS: evo's long-term FK2, on Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tyres, lapped the West Circuit in the same time as a Focus RS on the same tyres.

What did reviewers say about the 9th-generation Civic?

British reviewers praised the hatchback's space and reliability more than its driving. Autotrader wrote that it "beats all rivals when it comes to space and reliability" but had "lost some of its predecessor's joie de vivre". Auto Express ran a 1.6 i-DTEC Tourer for six months and found it "brilliantly practical, frugal and utterly reliable", with front seats that did not give enough support. In the Mk9's first Driver Power owner survey, Auto Express reports, owners ranked it 23rd for practicality and running costs but 121st for handling, 103rd for ride quality and 125th for performance.

The Type R was received with more enthusiasm. In evo issue 211 (June 2015) Dan Prosser called it "the most complete Civic Type R yet", and after 13,000 miles in evo's long-term FK2, Ian Eveleigh wrote that colleagues who had started "a little lukewarm" were often heard to say they would "prefer it to the Focus RS". He found the double-DIN stereo and sat nav unit "a bit clunky" and the ride firm on rough roads even in the default setting. It was the first Honda to reach the final five of the World Performance Car of the Year (2016), Honda UK announced on 1 February 2016.

Questions

Does the 9th-generation Honda Civic have a timing belt or a timing chain?

Every engine in the ninth-generation Civic, petrol and diesel, uses a timing chain, so there is no cambelt to replace at a set mileage. What Car? notes this in its used-car guide.

Which 9th-generation Civic engine is best?

For low running costs the 1.6 i-DTEC diesel: 78.5mpg officially, more than 65mpg in normal driving by What Car?'s estimate, and £20 a year road tax. The RAC's used-car guide also recommends the 1.8 i-VTEC petrol, the only engine offered with an automatic gearbox in the hatchback and Tourer.

Was the 9th-generation Civic sold as a saloon in the UK?

No. Honda UK sold the ninth generation as a five-door hatchback from launch and added the Tourer estate in 2014. The saloon and two-door coupe were launched in North America, built in Indiana and Ontario, and Honda also sold the saloon in Asia, launching it in Malaysia in July 2012.

How much can a 9th-generation Civic tow?

Honda's 2015 press kit gives a braked towing limit of 1,400kg for the 1.6 i-DTEC and the manual 1.8 i-VTEC, 1,200kg for the 1.4 i-VTEC and 1,000kg for the 1.8 automatic. Every version can pull 500kg unbraked.

Does the 9th-generation Civic have a touchscreen and sat nav?

From launch the ES and higher trims had Bluetooth, and EX and EX GT had a hard-disc sat nav. The 2015 facelift brought Honda Connect, a seven-inch touchscreen based on Android 4.0.4 with DAB and internet radio, web browsing and optional Garmin navigation.

What fuel economy does the FK2 Civic Type R return?

Honda quotes 38.7mpg on the official combined cycle, 30.1mpg urban and 46.3mpg extra-urban, with CO2 emissions of 170g/km. That puts it in road tax band H, £325 a year.

Has the FK2 Civic Type R held its value?

It cost £29,995 new in 2015, and the 10 FK2s advertised on PistonHeads on 28 October 2026 had a median asking price of £19,895 at a median of 56,726 miles. 2015-registered ordinary Civics in the same sample had a median of £8,795, against new prices of £15,975 to £26,970.

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