{"id":605854,"date":"2026-09-20T03:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T03:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/605854\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T03:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T03:02:10","slug":"all-new-next-generation-honda-civic-hatchback-becomes-worthy-of-the-space-age-in-unofficial-cgis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/605854\/","title":{"rendered":"All-New Next-Generation Honda Civic Hatchback Becomes Worthy of the Space Age in Unofficial CGIs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"xaegal_0\" class=\"fullimg\" href=\"https:\/\/s1.cdn.autoevolution.com\/images\/news\/all-new-next-generation-honda-civic-hatchback-becomes-worthy-of-the-space-age-in-unofficial-cgis-275661_1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Honda Civic Hatchback VTEC rendering by 0395_design on car.design.trends\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"485\" itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/all-new-next-generation-honda-civic-hatchback-becomes-worthy-of-the-space-age-in-unofficial-cgis-275.jpeg\" data-gidx=\"0\" data-big=\"https:\/\/s1.cdn.autoevolution.com\/images\/news\/all-new-next-generation-honda-civic-hatchback-becomes-worthy-of-the-space-age-in-unofficial-cgis-275661_1.jpg\" data-description=\"Photo: car.design.trends \/ Instagram\" alt=\"Honda Civic Hatchback VTEC rendering by 0395_design on car.design.trends\" title=\"Honda Civic Hatchback VTEC rendering by 0395_design on car.design.trends\" data-title=\"Honda Civic Hatchback VTEC rendering by 0395_design on car.design.trends\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a>\u00a0 7 photos<\/p>\n<p>Photo: car.design.trends \/ Instagram<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoevolution.com\/newstag\/Honda\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Japanese automaker Honda<\/a> is well known for its reliability and safety \u2013 it has numerous cars and SUVs in the top automobiles most likely to reach a quarter of a million miles, and just recently it also became the first automaker that earned a five-star FIA safety rating.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>If you look at models like the Honda Accord Hybrid, HR-V, Civic, Pilot, or Ridgeline, they are among the few automobiles that have big chances to reach 250k miles during their lifetime, all thanks to Honda\u2019s legendary reliability track. The FIA Road Safety Index for products and services has also included Honda for the first time with a five-star rating \u2013 a grade no other automaker has.<\/p>\n<p>The FIA Road Safety Index is more like a governance audit, rather than a classic crash test scorecard from NHTSA or the IIHS and NCAP. Instead, it reports on the overall safety across the business, rather than at the end product. Anyway, we digress. For all its love in the reliability and safety department, Honda isn\u2019t known for the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoevolution.com\/news\/american-honda-cracks-1000000-sales-milestone-through-august-2026-275082.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">popular designs<\/a> around the world, instead.<\/p>\n<p>All those models we talked about are less than exciting to many people; there\u2019s no doubt about it. No worries, though, as there are solutions \u2013 including from the rumor mill and the members of the imaginative guild of digital car content creators dwelling across the parallel universes of vehicular CGI. For example, the good folks over at &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoevolution.com\/newstag\/car.design.trends\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">car.design.trends<\/a>&#8221; have recently focused our attention on a hypothetical proposal for a brand-new Honda Civic done by Gaetano De Cicco, an Italian transportation and concept designer known as \u20180395_design\u2019 on social media.<\/p>\n<p>His most recent unofficial, hypothetical design project focuses on the eternal Honda Civic in hatchback format, a model that has been around since the very beginning of the nameplate in 1972 \u2013 more precisely, the three-door hatchback version. The virtual artist says this is a personal project, aimed at bringing back the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoevolution.com\/news\/performance-oriented-honda-civic-type-r-hrc-reportedly-due-in-2027-275345.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Honda Civic<\/a> Hatchback design style from the 1990s with a modern and minimalistic aesthetic.<\/p>\n<p>The approach is pretty simple: one can recognize the round fifth-generation hatchback style, but now the Civic is long and wide, and also lower to the ground \u2013 the concept has big metal surfaces and small glass areas. There are narrow LED headlights at the front mixed with matching slim taillights, and there\u2019s even an F1-style third brake light embedded in the bumper which forms the \u2018H\u2019 letter from LED dots.<\/p>\n<p>Sporty elements include the big roof spoiler around the back and the large black alloy wheels, but otherwise it\u2019s pretty much streamlined for high velocity. By the way, the pixel master doesn\u2019t explicitly mention a powertrain, and the enclosed front suggests an EV treatment. However, we suspect it\u2019s still ICE because there\u2019s clear VTEC labeling at the front and on the sides, plus slim exhaust ports embedded in the rear diffuser.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 7 photos Photo: car.design.trends \/ Instagram The Japanese automaker Honda is well known for its reliability and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[298492,298493,298491,7559,28365,239810,298490,111,139,69,112744,145],"class_list":["post-605854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-0395design","tag-car-design-trends","tag-cgi-new-generation","tag-civic","tag-honda","tag-honda-civic","tag-honda-civic-hatchback-vtec","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rendering","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}