Honda

Loyal Honda sports fans, rejoice: the new Civic Si will hit the street in 2017. Honda revealed the new Si ahead of the Los Angeles Auto Show, hot on the heels of the also-new Civic Type R announcement staged at the SEMA (Specialty Equipment Marketing Association) show in Las Vegas. With both the Type R and Si announcements, Honda seems to be back in the compact high performance wars.

Where Civic Si machinery of the past had been normally aspirated since the 1990s, this new wave of Si power comes through turbocharging, with a greater accent on high levels of torque rather than the blisteringly high revs of the VTECs of yore. The Si will get a 1.5-liter, turbocharged DOHC four-cylinder engine with variable cam timing for both intake and exhaust sides. Performance options will include active dampers and steering, a limited-slip differential and higher-performance tires.