With the advantages of brand power and product strength, Civic can be described as smooth sailing and smooth water in the A+ class sports sedan market, especially the explosive tenth generation model, which has been supported by many young people. All along, Civic has not lacked challengers, but most of them are lowly powered by high configurations, and the configuration with strong power is not sincere enough, which also makes Civic the top brand of A+ class sports cars for so many years.
Until the arrival of UNI-V, Civic has a rookie competitor with strong comprehensive strength, and there are also many fans who privately message us "UNI-V and Civic choose whom", taking this opportunity, we may wish to take a comparison, comprehensively on UNI-V and Civic, to see if UNI-V rookies are strong or Civic This veteran is stronger?
Looks to boost goodwill, who can master the sports style?
The so-called appearance is justice, and an eye-catching design can better capture the preferences of young people.
As the first model conceived by the Ark architecture, it gives the UNI-V a purer sporty posture. Its front overhang is 905mm, the shaft length ratio is 0.59, and the shorter front suspension and larger shaft length ratio create a stretching and sporty feeling of the luxury sports car. At the same time, UNI-V also further strengthens this sports momentum through a low lying posture, and the wheel height accounts for almost half of the height of the car, comparable to the luxury sports car.
UNI-V continues the classic, unique borderless grille design of the UNI family, with a unique focus. The body side abandons the traditional design of the use of exaggerated waist line, complex feature line and other expression methods, the use of pure, accurate and spirited V-shaped surface design, with a very dynamic shape to shape the flow of light and shadow. At the same time, the rear of the car also adopts the same level of rare electric hatchback design, under the Fastback slipback design, the whole vehicle line is simple and smooth, to achieve the perfect balance of aesthetic volume and practical space.
It is undeniable that the Civic, known as the "Little Accord", has reached the eleventh generation, and its appearance is also very good. Its three-dimensional waist line through the front and rear, the two folding lines of the door panel, the roof of the sneaky back, and the short front and rear suspension make the whole body full of movement. But under a closer look, the Civic tail design is more "crotch", the moderate taillight design + chrome decoration of the tail row, the complex design is counterproductive, there is no imaginary plus.
Perhaps this is also the "safe" of the Civic, when its target users are large enough, it will not risk doing more radical designs, like the previous generation of classic tribute is the most stable approach.
Of course, in terms of appearance, everyone is wise, and no model design can make everyone look good. However, from the author's aesthetic point of view, the motion gene of the hatchback coupe UNI-V is obviously more pure, not exaggerated or lacking in motion, and more like dream Car's heartbeat.
Power determines strength, who is the A+ class car control king?
Whether it is a hatchback coupe or a sporty attribute, no matter what kind of positioning, power and control are its essence. In this regard, both UNI-V and Civic are the best in the market.
UNI-V is equipped with the Blue Whale special adjustment power combination of the new generation NE1.5T high-pressure direct injection engine + blue whale 7-speed wet dual-clutch transmission, and the key to its "special adjustment" lies in the X-Pedal calibration strategy and the transient torque control technology first applied to the Blue Whale 7-speed wet dual clutch.
Among them, X-Pedal is different from the traditional torque-based approach, with the most direct acceleration as the power matching benchmark, and the engine power level is exerted to the extreme lean calibration. Its design is in 6 mainstream use scenarios and 17 different working conditions to ensure that the vehicle can always accelerate as the user wishes, and achieve the effect of integration of people and vehicles.
The transient torque control technology can effectively improve the clutch control accuracy, eliminate low-speed gear shifting setbacks, achieve a smooth and smooth acceleration, and in terms of driving smoothness, UNI-V has no disadvantage compared to the CVT gearbox equipped with the Civic.
From the actual performance, UNI-V's power strength has a certain advantage, its 100 km/h acceleration reached 7.3s, and the slightly weaker Civic is 7.9s.
In terms of handling, both UNI-V and Civic are remarkable.
As the foundation of the "god car", the eleventh generation Civic has a certain improvement in handling compared to the previous generation model, such as the rear wheelbase widening to improve the stability of the vehicle when cornering, the suspension and steering system upgrades to make the steering accuracy higher, the bushing material upgrade so that the vehicle can also filter the shock vibration and sound to the greatest extent when passing through the potholed and uneven road, and the chassis retuned Civic, the handling performance is still the first echelon of the same level.
"Veteran" Civic is so powerful, how does "rookie" UNI-V perform?
UNI-V also has two core advantages in terms of handling – the new suspension design and DTV dynamic torque vector control system.
As we all know, the core of the control is the chassis adjustment, and the key to the advantages and disadvantages of the chassis adjustment lies in the suspension. In order to find the best hard point design of the suspension (the spatial position of the various rod connection points of the suspension), UNI-V engineers used a genetic algorithm (a method of searching for the optimal solution by simulating the natural evolutionary process) to finally select the optimal hard point design scheme through tens of millions of iterations, obtaining a hard-point design scheme with both comfort and extreme athletic potential, fundamentally optimizing the K&C characteristics of the suspension, giving UNI-V better body motion control and more sensitive dynamic response.
In addition, the DTV dynamic torque vector control system is when driving in a more intense corner, the controller can intelligently distribute the torque difference between the inner and outer wheels through real-time control of the torque of the inner wheel of the curve, so as to accurately control the driving trajectory according to the driver's intention.
This results in the UNI-V's superior cornering performance, passing the IS0 3888-2 elk test at 76 km/h, while the Civic's measured elk test speed is 74 km/h.
According to the official news of UNI, UNI-V equipped with Blue Whale iDD and 2.0T will also be launched in the second quarter of this year, and the experience of power will be richer, and there are more surprises to look forward to.
Safety highlights quality, who can do full-time protection?
Since it is a comprehensive comparison, safety can certainly not be overlooked.
As the integrator of Ark architecture technology, UNI-V not only has the ultimate athletic potential, but also brings excellent mechanical quality, especially in terms of safety, UNI-V uses a new "Ark Cage" safety body with high stiffness and light weight, which forms multiple force transmission closed loops in both horizontal and vertical directions in the crew compartment to ensure the safety of the occupants after a collision. On top of this, the Ark cage has constructed enough collision energy unloading design on the outside of the crew compartment to effectively reduce the impact on the crew compartment.
In addition, it is understood that in order to seek the optimal distribution of materials, UNI-V in the concept stage, did the body topology optimization, such as the A-column of the cabin part, B-pillar reinforcement and other parts of the use of thermoforming, sill beams and other parts of the use of ultra-high strength steel, the vehicle high-strength steel and above accounted for up to 70% or more, the maximum strength to 1500Mpa; also such as the outer plate material, through the optimization of the UNI-V body weight reduction of 31kg, to achieve the vehicle weight reduction.
Therefore, UNI-V was also rated as "2021 China's Top Ten Body Bodies" by the China Automotive Body Conference organized by the China Automotive Technology and Research Center.
The ACE load-bearing body structure used by the Civic is roughly the same as UNI-V's "Ark Cage" concept, that is, a safety technology system that "improves its own protection and reduces external attack power", but it is different in terms of material distribution. You know, Civic is the first model to interrupt the B-pillar in the crash test of The China Insurance Research Institute, even if the Civic has now been replaced, but the proportion of ultra-high-strength steel with 1500Mpa is still not high enough.
UNI-V body safety is based on a variety of the latest safety evaluation standards for the front, side, rear-end and top of the safety structure design, safety quality is trustworthy.
Of course, security is not all passive security, intelligent security is also an important part. From the configuration point of view, UNI-V is equipped with AEB intelligent emergency braking assist, LDW lane departure warning, LKA lane keeping assist system, CTA reverse lateral warning, BSD blind spot monitoring, RCW rear-end warning, SEA occupant door opening collision warning function, and Continental's new 3rd generation ESC body electronic stability control system, etc., compared to the Civic equipped Honda SENSING safety supersensitive system is also more comprehensive (Civic's active safety configuration is basically concentrated in medium and high-end models, UNI-V is cheaper and more expensive).
Intelligence reflects the gap, who is the real "understanding king"?
In terms of smart cockpits, UNI-V is stronger. It is equipped with IMS intelligent cockpit interaction system, which supports brushing face on the car, insensitively logging in to the FACE ID super account, automatically calling your exclusive vehicle settings, and logging in to QQ music, Himalaya and other ecological accounts in one step; integrating active services such as fatigue driving intervention, supporting front and rear gesture interaction.
At the same time, thanks to the blessing of iFLYTEK's latest voice interaction system, UNI-V has realized the ability of all-scenario intelligent voice interaction, so that "Xiaoan" has strong language understanding capabilities such as multi-round dialogue, context recognition, cross-scene recognition, etc., and can continue to evolve, so that the more the voice is used, the more intelligent, and the fun of human-machine communication is endless.
In this regard, Civic is equipped with its own Honda CONNECT 3.0 intelligent car machine system, which can control the car machine by voice (such as navigation, listening to music, making calls, etc.), voice control of the basic functions of the vehicle (such as air conditioning, window switches, etc.), and can also achieve real-time networking and OTA upgrades.
However, compared to the UNI-V car engine system, the playability of the Civic is not high, and other configurations in the cockpit are not as rich as UNI-V.
Write at the end:
With the empowerment of the Ark architecture, UNI-V has extremely high advantages in handling performance and vehicle safety, while having the classic and focus of the UNI family design style, special blue whale power and extremely high level of intelligence and extremely rich configuration, as a "rookie" in the A+ class sports sedan market, UNI-V's performance is obviously better than that of the "veteran" Civic. There is no doubt that relying on strong product strength and continuous surprises created for users, in the 100,000-150,000 sedan market, "rookie" UNI-V has truly shown the confidence and strength to compete with joint venture competitors.