The completely redesigned 2016 Honda Civic (automobiles.honda.com/civic) and 2016 Honda Pilot SUV (automobiles.honda.com/pilot) have been named to the 10 Best Family Cars list by the parenting and car experts at Parents magazine and Edmunds.com. The two family-friendly Honda vehicles were selected out of hundreds of models for excelling in the key areas of safety, convenience features, performance, design and value.
The Honda Civic, the 2016 North American Car of the Year, is Honda's best-selling car globally, playing a leading role in advancing fuel efficiency, small-car safety performance, design, technology and fun-to-drive performance for ten generations. The 2016 Civic Sedan sets a new bar in the mainstream compact class with the addition of the Honda Sensing™ suite of advanced safety and driver-assistive technologies, available on all trims, making Civic the most affordable new car in America with these advanced safety technologies, including automatic emergency braking (when equipped with optional front crash prevention).
In addition, the 2016 Civic Sedan received the highest available collision safety ratings, an NCAP 5-Star Overall Vehicle Score from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and a TOP SAFETY PICK+ rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).
The spacious, innovative and family-friendly 2016 Pilot sets new standards for fuel efficiency, spacious and thoughtful interior packaging, and dynamic handling performance in the midsize SUV segment. The Pilot is also at the top of its class in safety features and collision safety ratings. The Pilot features available Honda Sensing™ technology along with Honda's next-generation Advanced Compatibility Engineering™ (ACE™) body structure and a standard multi-angle rearview camera; and the Pilot has earned a 5-Star Overall Vehicle Score from the NHTSA and a TOP SAFETY PICK+ rating from the IIHS.
For more information about the Parents magazine and Edmunds.com's list of the 10 Best Family Cars of 2016, please visit www.parents.com and www.edmunds.com. The full list will be featured in the July 2016 issue of Parents magazine available June 7.
About Honda
Honda offers a full line of reliable, fuel-efficient and fun-to-drive vehicles with advanced safety technologies sold through approximately 1,000 independent U.S. Honda dealers. The Honda lineup includes the Fit, Civic and Accord passenger cars, along with the HR-V, CR-V and Pilot sport/utility vehicles, the soon-to-be-launched Ridgeline pickup and the Odyssey minivan.
Honda has been producing automobiles in America for 33 years and currently operates 19 major manufacturing facilities in North America. In 2015, more than 99 percent of all Honda vehicles sold in the U.S. were made in North America, using domestic and globally sourced parts.
Honda Commitment to Safety
Honda has a long history of leadership in the development of advanced technologies designed to enhance the safety of all road users, including automobile occupants, motorcycle riders and pedestrians. Today, Honda is working toward its vision for a "zero-collision society" and is targeting a 50 percent reduction in fatalities in its vehicles by 2020, compared to 2000 levels, and zero fatalities in Honda vehicles by 2040.
Toward this goal, the company is broadly applying its Honda Sensing™ suite of advanced safety and driver-assistive technologies that can help mitigate the potential for or severity of a collision. Thanks in part to the widespread application of Honda's next-generation Advanced Compatibility Engineering™ (ACE™) body structure, Honda is also among the industry leaders in earning top collision safety ratings from the U.S. government and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), including top IIHS collision-safety ratings for Honda's five top-selling U.S. models – Accord, Civic, CR-V, Pilot and Odyssey.
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