The tenth-generation Honda Civic may be hiding the true potential of its 1.5 litre turbocharged engine, according to the team over at Hondata. What they’ve done is take a standard North American 2016 Honda Civic EX, and hooked it up to a set of dynapacks to get a better read on the Civic’s engine output.
In the brochure, the 1.5 litre turbo mill is said to dish out 174 hp and 220 Nm, nearly the same as that of the Thai-spec Civic. However, after some data gathering, it is revealed that the engine actually has 177 hp and 258 Nm on tap, which is 3 hp and 38 Nm more than listed. Shocking!
Although these figures may come as a surprise, there are certain factors that may have contributed to them. For starters, Honda’s numbers were obtained from an engine dyno (no transmission attached). Here, the Civic was tested with a CVT transmission, making it more difficult to obtain accurate output numbers. The torque converter paired to the CVT, could have contributed to higher (indicated) torque figures as well.
While numbers are fun to look at, Hondata decided to illustrate the gains of a turbocharged engine with a drag race between the Honda Civic EX, and the 2015 Honda Civic Si. Even though the 2015 Civic Si 2.4 has more power (205 hp), but the torque generated by the all-new model allows it to have the leg up over its predecessor (even with Eco mode switched on).
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Woh!!! That is really nice.
So good the engine. Our turbo? Like Exora, Proton will give you free panggang and free cremation. 2 in 1.
Our turbo always bakar. Then Proton will blame the owner. Like how the Exora owner naik Genting kena blame. Poor guy. Proton accused him and said his fault kereta bakar.
LOL
You can’t go wrong with sushi cars. But why sushi cars so expensive? Ask your beloved Proton.
You think we can’t sell Corolla/Civic at Persona price? Think again!
So where is the “cheap” car? In Thai no p1 but your cars aren’t cheap neither.
Hope gomen also legalize drag-race la
Why you need to compare with thailand? Why not japan? Simply take any country where car is expensive and compare for what? We compare price of goods + profit vs price of goods + profit + AP + Big tax slapped on…
Know where you stand, bolehland is not developed country like Japan or USA
actually it is 3-in-1. Death, Ikan Panggang and Cremation. Sama macam Pantene 3-in-1 shampoo
Only one on fire you bash, takata airbags that been recalled all over the world, you dun bash pulak
Topkek
lol, the slowest drag race ever..
would be a shame if they got schooled by wira or myvi turbo
Ady done that countless times
But then the whole car shakes like is a operating washing machine.
Proton TGDI 1.5 turbo produce slightly better power and torque output than Honda 1.5 Turbo. Proton boleh!
On paper?
On paper, yes. In reality, well let’s just wait. Anyway Proton is also known for understated specs; someone dynoed a CFE and they got 159hp/230Nm on crank, and Preve/Suprima CFE could do 8+secs 0-100km/h instead of 9.6s as advertised, and FC on the specs sheet is also higher (9.1L/100km LOL any sane guy can get 7-8L/100km easily). Dunno if they play safe or what.
On a downwards slope?
Looool if downwards slope even 0L/100km can get. Anyway you can find out yrself, put the shifter in S-mode, don’t use paddleshift (paddleshift on a CVT only makes it slower). If it’s not that fast then maybe the car still has the shitty pre-launch ECU/TCU settings.
Yup believe it too, p1 usually understates the specs
Not really unstated. Nearly all turbocharged car power are suppressed by the ecu for reliability purpose. About 20% of the engine power is suppressed for this manner.
When the Preve was launched, the early (pre-launch) ECU/TCU settings is sooo sluggish, tuned for eco and to smooth out the wet-clutched gearbox. Maybe the specs sheet was based on that. Later batches has faster (but jerkier) settings.
Put racechip can get around 7 sec in century sprint
OMG…that would be joke of the year 2016…hahaha…
LOL.. The novice driver beat the Pro driver in reaction time and almost matches the 60′ Time.
The new Civic Turbo would probably make the 1/4 in low 15s and 95mph. Which is impressive for a stock family car.
Take note that the drag race was not a Quarter Mile dua to weather reason or something. So it was only a 1/8 Mile race. Had it been a full Quarter Mile, the normally aspirated Si would have probably cought up. But its still quite impressive for a family sedan meant for the masses. And it does 42 MPG highway. Good job by Honda. Just that I don’t fancy the exterior and interior design. I think the Mazda3 looks better.
Mazda Interior design is bland compare to this new civic…
New perdana can overtake this civic? New perdana same 177bhp, but Rosmah buttt design overall sizes, it can only achieve 135bhp
Grow up people, the comment sections are filled with childish trolls (maybe those really were comments by children ).
Anyways , thanks for the great info shared! I would recommend anyone that would like to buys a new car to check on paultan first!
“For starters, Honda’s numbers were obtained from an engine dyno (no transmission attached). Here, the Civic was tested with a CVT transmission, making it more difficult to obtain accurate output numbers. The torque converter paired to the CVT, could have contributed to higher (indicated) torque figures as well.”
Thought that dyno with tranny will always be lower meh?(mechanical loss)
Torque converter multiples the torque. Much like the mat motor next door presses clutch and rev and let go. The slip multiplies the torque: it turns high rpm into higher torque then otherwise have at lower rpm without slip.
wondering if civic turbo would come here
I like the Civic SI butt better compare to 10gen.
Hope civic 1.5T will priced within 140k