The Honda Civic Tourer revealed prior to Frankfurt motor show debut

Honda Motor has revealed its new Civic Tourer prior to its debut at the Frankfurt motor show due next month. The Civic Tourer was designed by the Japanese luxury car maker’s European design studio and is expected to hit the European car market early next year. The dashing Honda Civic Tourer will launch with a choice of engines of the Earth Dreams 1.6 i-DTEC diesel motor and a 1.8 i-VTEC gas motor under its hood. The powerful and efficient engines will be mated to either a manual or an automatic transmission gearbox.

Apart from very powerful engine capabilities, the Honda Civic Tourer also boasts of class leading boot capacity. Tourer features 22 cubic feet of boot space, which further extends to 59 cubic feet when its rear seats are folded up. The vehicle also boasts of having Honda’s magic seats that fold up effortlessly to increase the already commendable cargo space to accommodate various kinds of big and small luggage. Moreover, the Civic Tourer also offers a lot of hidden storage sections under its floor.

The Honda Civic Tourer looks basically and is practically the same car as the Civic with an increased interior and storage capacity to facilitate the various needs of a family. Thus, Honda wanted to offer the general hatchback or sedan consumers with more convenience of a vehicle that can accommodate some more passengers and great amount of cargo while its handling remains similar to that of a regular hatch or sedan. The Honda Civic Tourer is due for its world premiere at the upcoming Frankfurt Motor Show in September, 2013 where the some of the Tourer rival models are also expected to make their debut.

The large project leader at Honda Motor, Adrian Killham who is behind the development of the Civic Tourer said that in order to achieve most of the utilitarian capability on a small car, one has to consider how to put in most of the space in its cabin that inevitable also affects the car’s design. He added that because of the highly practical and smart design concept of the platform of the Civic, the company could freely optimize it to get something new and as an end result, Honda presents a car that has a shape and structure similar to that of a sports car.

Honda has developed the car based on the European specific Civic’s platform and it is going to launch in the European car market. As for the US car market, Honda has kept the company’s essential bread and butter brand Civic’s range pretty limited in the nation. Honda is not even offering the Civic five door hatch version in the US and there are no plan for the company to launch the Civic Tourer either, even though big cars and MPVs are really popular is the US.

As for the Indian car market, though Honda plans to launch 4 new models by 2015, the Civic Tourer is not a part of this upcoming product range.