Honda Civic still best among compacts on new IIHS crash test

The four-door Civic received "good" ratings earlier this year -- a payoff for Honda engineers in Ohio after they redid the car's front-end architecture to better handle a new front-end, corner crash.

August 08, 2013 05:00 AM

The Honda Civic is still the only small car to get the top rating on a new test that simulates a severe front-end crash, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says.

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