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Half a century with the world

In 2022, the Civic will reach a milestone of half a century since its birth. When I looked into what happened in 1972, the year I was born, I found out that the Asama Sanso Incident was the birth of the Kakuei Tanaka Cabinet, the pandas Kankan and Ranran visited the Ueno Zoo, and so on. ] started broadcasting, there were a series of events that made me think. By the way, Matsuko Deluxe and Takafumi Horie seem to be the same age as the Civic.

After such a long period of continuous production, it is not strange at all that even if the name is the same Civic, each person has their own Civic. For example, for me, the Civic in the middle is a "wonder" with a "ZC" or "B16" and a "sport". It may be, and if it is a younger generation, they will want to push the "FP" that graduated from Tenroku to the "FD2" "Type R".

More than 170 countries and regions are sold. It is produced at 10 bases around the world and sells about 680,000 units a year. The Civic, which has become a global car equivalent to the "Corolla" in Toyota's terms, will be absent from its home country, the Japanese market, in a six-pole system that emphasizes planning and production in the destination country, aiming for annual sales of 6 million units. There was also No, to be precise, it should be called something like a type R exclusive brand.

However, the 6-pole system created strains such as exhaustion of development and surplus production capacity, and the Civic returned to Japan as the management strategy was reviewed. That is the 10th generation that was on sale until recently. Variations include the "sedan" manufactured at the Yorii plant, the "hatchback" manufactured at the Swindon plant in England, which has recently ceased operations, and the Type R.