Our quick take

Honda Civic 1.4 iVTEC SE - 3.5 / 5

Darth Vadar’s Helmet?

Darth Vadar sucking a gobstopper

Like stepping into a space ship

A spacious ship

Everything you’ll ever need - except performance

To recap

Honda’s new Civic looks less good than before, but it’s not lost any of the radicalness inside. Genuinely practical and now better to drive, we’d recommend you go for the bigger petrol - or better still - diesel engine, rather than this base 1.4. So equipped, we suspect it would win an extra half-star