As compact cars go, the 2012 Honda Civic Natural Gas has long taken seriously the mantra of having “something for everyone.” At one point 2012 Honda Civic Natural Gas family even had 4WD wagons, two-seat hot hatchbacks, and a frisky convertible running around, although its current lineup is a lot more perambulator. The Honda takes the diversity thing one step farther with the Civic Natural Gas, a variant that, as the name implies, uses the Earth’s cleanest-burning fossil fuel as its foundation of propulsion, rather than dirty old gasoline. The 2012 Honda Civic Natural Gas formerly known as the Civic GX, the natural gas-powered Civic has actually been around since 1998, but wasn’t available for retail sale until its 2006 arrival in but a single state. The 2012 Honda Civic Natural Gas with a price of $26,305.2012 Honda Civic Natural Gas interior returns with a minor variation of the same sensible control layout, comfy seats, a usefully flat rear floor and crisp digital instrument cluster, even if some materials seem more cheaply constructed this time around. The 2012 Honda Civic Natural Gas most prominent differences were to its driving character, which has been blasted by the motoring press for being diluted and degraded.
In truth, the 2012 Honda Civic Natural Gas edition still feels like a Civic, in other words, a typical middle-of-the-road Japanese packed in.
The 2012 Honda Civic Natural Gas has a 140-horsepower engine gives pretty good pep in town, with VTEC kicking in for an extra surge when you need it and its seamless five-speed automatic making a praiseworthy partner in felony. The steering response of 2012 Honda Civic Natural Gas has indeed been slowed down: You can now turn the wheel 3.1 times from end to end (up from 2.7). But that’s pretty close to the class average and still faster than the Civics of the ’90s.