2025 Honda Civic with Google Built-in – first Japanese car with integrated Google Maps, Play Store in M’sia

2025 Honda Civic with Google Built-in – first Japanese car with integrated Google Maps, Play Store in M’sia

The 2025 Honda Civic facelift is now launched in Malaysia, and one of the biggest highlights of the minor change is the availability of wireless Android Auto (previously, only Apple CarPlay was wireless) and Google Built-in on all variants. The latter is the first of its kind for a new car in Malaysia.

First announced with the 2023 Honda Accord in North America (the one after the final Accord sold in Malaysia), where it was fitted on higher-end variants, Honda’s implementation of Google Built-in sees popular Google apps and features such as Google Assistant, Google Maps and the Play Store integrated into the factory head unit.

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Shortcuts of these apps are lined up in a vertical strip next to the physical controls on the right side of the 9.0-inch colour touchscreen for added convenience. You can summon Google Assistant with ‘OK Google’ and make commands.

The rest of the infotainment’s interface looks similar to before, so you get a proper factory-style look and experience, as opposed to an aftermarket Android head unit. Check out the pics above.

Honda’s Google Built-in is not to be confused with the full-blown Android Automotive OS used by Volvo. As mentioned, it’s standard on all variants of the 2025 Civic facelift, including the base E variant, which gets an upgrade in screen size (was 7.0-inch, smaller than the rest). Full specs and details on the 2025 Civic facelift in our launch report.

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Danny Tan

Danny Tan loves driving as much as he loves a certain herbal meat soup, and sweet engine music as much as drum beats. He has been in the auto industry since 2006, previously filling the pages of two motoring magazines before joining this website. Enjoys detailing the experience more than the technical details.

 

Comments

  • Najib on Jan 10, 2025 at 2:31 am

    What an achievement..this deserved a nobel prize

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  • Plain BS on Jan 10, 2025 at 8:24 am

    Too fragmented, there is Android auto, Google builtin, Android auto OS, no wonder some brands ie Proton did not jump onto AA bandwagon despite so many making noises. In hindsight it was a wiser decision to go with their own flavour of HU system that can be updated OTA.

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