New Honda Civic delivers

I KNOW that many car companies are good at blowing their own horn when it comes to any technological innovations they might happen upon, but it strikes me that one company — possibly above all others — rarely either takes or receives the credit it deserves for so long being at the fore of automotive innovation.

For generations Honda has been at the leading edge of engineering in many ways and it seems to me that the company is the antithesis of the innate conservatism which is at the heart of so many of its Japanese rivals.

And it amuses me when a company claims to have made a major breakthrough in any given area, to know that it is fairly certain this is an area where Honda has already successfully visited or walked away from.