HONDA isn’t standing still in Australia’s hottest new car segment, the small car class. It’s just released the eighth-generation Civic – one of the world’s oldest and most respected nameplates. Sadly, right now we must do without a hatchback, but at least the not-so-small sedan ticks all the right boxes for style, comfort, space efficiency, refinement, choice and – most crucially – value. It did it with Accord and Odyssey, and now it’s Civic’s turn to show its rivals just how serious Honda is about doubling sales here by 2010.