CARS.COM — The current, 10th-generation Honda Civic is one of our favorite cars. It recently won our 2017 Compact Sedan Challenge among other accolades, such as North American Car of the Year in 2016 when this generation debuted. For 2017, two performance variants of the Civic are due to land: the Si and the Type R. I tested a 2017 Civic Si sedan on a road course at Honda’s Proving Center of California in the Mojave Desert as well as on a long street-driving route as well.
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Does Honda’s long list of tweaks and improvements make the newest Si a worthy carrier for the name? Let’s find out.