Because you collect Star Wars memorabilia. Either that or you appreciate all the traditional Civic virtues — practicality, frugality, reliability, comfort, value, invisibility, etc. — and want something relatively slow that handles like a go-kart.

The view from the driver s seat is on the disco side of disconcerting: an acre of plastic between dash and glass, a videogame console in place of a traditional display and not even a glimpse of the Civic s snout. What s that all about?

· Speed Merchants: No

· Fashion Victims: No

· Treehuggers: No

· Mack Daddies: No

· Tuner Crowd:

· Hairdressers: No

· Penny Pinchers:

· Euro Snobs: No

· Working Stiffs: No

· Technogeeks: No

· Poseurs: No

· Soccer Moms: No

· Nascar Dads: No

· Golfing Grandparents: No

· Manufacturer: Honda

· Model tested: EX

· Model year: 2006

· Price as Tested: $20,560

· Engine type: 1.8-liter, SOHC i-VTEC 4-cylinder

· Horsepower: 140hp @ 6300 rpm

· Torque: 128 ft.-lbs. @ 4200 rpm

· Redline: 6800 rpm

· Wheels and Tires: P205 / 55 R16 89H all season

· Drive type: front-wheel-drive

· 0 - 60: 9.5 secs

· 1/4 mile: 17.35 secs. @ 82 mph

· Top speed: Don t go there

· Fuel economy city/highway: 30/40

· NHTSA crash test rating front/side/rollover: TBA/TBA/4

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