2025 Honda Civic Si Heats Up Summer with More Aggressive Styling, Leading-Edge Technology and Improved Dynamics
July 23, 2024 — MARKHAM, ON.
Civic Si gains exciting new design with more aggressive front fascia and grille, revised taillights, and new wheel design
New level of fun-to-drive dynamics with enhanced ride comfort
The 2025 Honda Civic Si will go on sale in early August
Honda will unleash the best-equipped and most fun-to-drive Civic Si ever this summer, as the brand continues to offer driving enthusiasts more affordable high-performance. The refreshed 2025 Civic Si brings an aggressive new front design, improved dynamics and a host of new standard features including Google built-in.
“What has made the Honda Civic an icon to many automotive enthusiasts and the market at large is the strong array of available trims, so there is truly a Civic for everyone,” said Emile Korkor, Assistant Vice President of Honda Sales and Marketing, “The Civic Si is a perfect mate for those that seek the thrill of a manual transmission with an exceptional dynamic drive without sacrificing the comfort of their passengers. This may be the best Civic Si we have ever built.”
The Honda Sensing® suite of safety and driver-assistive technologies is standard on all Civic models, with enhanced safety performance for 2025, including increased system visibility for motorcycles and bicycles for the Collision Mitigation Braking System™ (CMBS™) with Pedestrian Detection.
More Fun-to-Drive
The turbocharged Civic Si is one of the best performing cars in its class with an excellent power-to-weight ratio, lively handling and fun-to-drive feel – all while remaining comfortable for everyday driving. With this refresh, the performance sedan’s legendary fun-to-drive dynamics and class-leading ride comfort are further improved by body structure and suspension improvements.
The new SICE-compliant body makes this the most rigid Civic Si ever. New lower B-pillar and rear door sill supports increase torsional and bending rigidity.
To further amplify driver enjoyment and take advantage of the increased body stiffness, the Si suspension dampers have been tuned to match the increased body stiffness.
The performance of the standard Si rev-matching system has been enhanced by expanding its function to include downshifts from 2nd to 1st gear. The rev-matching system will “blip” the throttle when it detects all downshifts, perfectly matching revs with a lightning quick 430 ms response time.
Civic Si delivers high levels of driver exhilaration and engagement with a precise short-throw 6-speed manual transmission, complemented by a light single-mass flywheel, which helps give the sport sedan’s high-torque VTEC® 1.5-liter Turbo engine snappy throttle response. To maximize available traction during acceleration, the engine’s 200-horsepower and 192 lb.-ft. of torque is routed to the front wheels through a standard helical limited-slip differential.
Civic Si comes standard with larger brakes than the standard Civic Sedan, along with 235/40R18 all-season performance tires.
In addition to Normal and Sport driving modes, the Drive Mode system features an Individual mode that allows the driver to individually select engine response, steering assist level, and instrument panel display color parameters for a customized driving experience. Sport mode adds throttle response, decreases steering assist, deactivates the idle stop system, and changes the instrument accent lighting from white to red.
Exhilarating Design
The refreshed styling of the 2025 Honda Civic Si adds considerable attitude to the sport sedan with a more aggressive front fascia, new hex-pattern grille, and revised taillights with a darker appearance. Redesigned Si-specific V-spoke 18-inch alloy wheels finished in matte black further enhance the sporty look.
Si features standard LED headlights and taillights, and sporty gloss black trim on its exterior mirrors and window surrounds. Functional aerodynamic aids unique to the Civic Si improve its performance over other Civic Sedan models. A front spoiler hidden under the vehicle and a gloss black rear spoiler mounted atop the trunk lid add downforce to improve high speed stability.
The 2025 Civic Si is available for the first time in Urban Gray Pearl, which has become popular on other Honda models, including Accord and CR-V.
More Intuitive Tech
Intuitive technology has been smartly integrated into Civic Si with a focus on driver engagement, creating the most technologically advanced Civic Si ever. In addition to the sport sedan’s 9-inch touchscreen, and wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto™ compatibility, Si gains the model’s first integration of Google built-in and new front USB-C ports, all standard.
Sport pedals and red contrast stitching on the doors, steering wheel, center arm rest, shift boot and leather-wrapped aluminum shift knob add a performance edge to the Si cabin. Racy red accents also adorn the signature metal honeycomb dash trim and red stitched “Si” logos dress its front seatbacks.
Civic Si comes standard with a moonroof and the best audio system in the class – a 12-speaker Bose premium sound system with Bose Centerpoint 2 technology and SurroundStage digital signal processing.
Civic Si Gets Google built-In
Standard on the 2025 Civic Si is the performance sedan’s first integration of Google built-in. This includes apps like Google Assistant, Google Maps and more on Google Play for a helpful, personalized and connected driving experience.
With Google Assistant, users can get things done while keeping their eyes on the road and their hands on the wheel. Talk to Google to easily call or text a friend, set reminders, or even change the temperature in the car. Users can also navigate to the next destination or look up what’s nearby. For example, Google Assistant enables users to set their destination in Google Maps using just their voice, with the route map then displayed in the instrument cluster.
Drivers can control their media by asking Google to skip to the next track or rewind a podcast using their favorite media apps with just their voice. Google Play enables users to download various 3rd-party apps for music, podcasts and audiobooks, just like they would on their smartphone.
Enhanced Honda Sensing ®
Based on the longstanding Honda “Safety for Everyone” approach, a commitment to advance safety for everyone sharing the road, the 11th-generation Civic is a safety leader in the compact class due to the advanced active and passive safety technology that comes standard on every Civic, including enhanced safety performance for the 2025 Civic Si.
The upgraded Si includes increased system visibility for motorcycles and bicycles for the Collision Mitigation Braking System™ (CMBS™) with Pedestrian Detection, and smoother, more natural feeling to the functions of both Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) and Lane Keeping Assist System (LKAS). Forward Collision Warning; Road Departure Mitigation (RDM) incorporating Lane Departure Warning (LDW); are standard. All Civic Sport models and Civic Si are equipped with blind spot information system with Rear Cross Traffic Alert.
Every Civic includes the proprietary Advanced Compatibility Engineering™ (ACE™) body structure Honda designed to help protect occupants in a wide variety of frontal collisions, along with advanced supplemental restraint systems.
The driver and passenger front airbags in Civic were created to minimize the potential for severe brain trauma associated with angled frontal collisions. The front driver’s airbag uses an innovative donut-shaped structure to cradle the head to reduce rotation.
The passenger-side front airbag uses a three-chamber design with the two outer chambers designed to achieve a similar result. All Civic models also feature front seatbelt pretensioners, and side, driver and front-passenger knee and side-curtain airbags.
Manufacturing
First introduced in 1986, the Honda Civic Si has been built in North America for nearly two decades and that legacy continues with the 2025 model, which is produced* exclusively at the Honda auto plant in Alliston, Ontario, Canada. The performance sedan’s turbocharged engine is produced exclusively at the Honda engine plant in Anna, Ohio.
Honda has produced more than 11 million Civics in North America, including more than six million in Canada.
* using domestic and globally-sourced parts
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About Honda Canada
Honda Canada Inc. was founded in 1969 and is the parent company for both Honda and Acura vehicle brands in Canada. Since 1986, the company has produced Honda engines and over 10 million cars and light trucks at its Alliston, Ontario manufacturing facilities, where the Honda Civic and Honda CR-V are currently built. Honda Canada has invested over $21 billion in Canada, and each year sources over $3 billion in goods and services from Canadian suppliers. Since its inception, Honda Canada has sold over five million Honda and Acura passenger cars and light trucks in Canada through a dealer network of more than 280 dealerships across the country. For more information, please visit www.hondacanada.ca.
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