The 2025 Honda Civic hybrid has been named a “Best New Car for Teens” by U.S. News & World Report in the publication’s 2025 new car rankings. The Civic hybrid earned top honors in the $30,000 to $35,000 class.
This marks the third time the Honda Civic has been honored with a “Best New Car for Teens” award, an accolade with a primary focus on safety.
The 11th-generation Civic is a safety leader in the compact class thanks to advanced active and passive safety technology that comes standard on every Civic. The 2025 Honda Civic Hatchback has earned a 2025 TOP SAFETY PICK+ (TSP+) rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). The refreshed 2025 Honda Civic Sedan earned the IIHS 2025 TOP SAFETY PICK (TSP) rating. Both ratings include the Honda Civic hybrid models, which are positioned at the top of the 11th generation Civic lineup and represent nearly 35% of sales.
To be named a Best New Car for Teens, a vehicle must have the best combination of predicted reliability ratings, crash test scores, available advanced driver-assistance features, and top critics’ recommendations in its price category.
As an additional benefit to teen drivers, the 2025 Civic Hybrid with 9-inch touchscreen is compatible with the Honda Driver Coaching app, which is designed to help new drivers, particularly teens, improve their driving skills and promote safe driving practices. By connecting the app to the vehicle through Apple CarPlay, it provides real-time analysis of driving inputs such as acceleration, braking, and steering. After each driving session, users receive a driving score and personalized coaching tips to enhance their driving behavior. The app also includes a detailed map of the route taken and a summary of driving performance, making it a valuable tool for driver education.
An unparalleled success, the award-winning 11th-generation Civic is a gateway to the Honda brand and America’s most popular vehicle with Gen Z, first-time buyers and multicultural customers. Honda Civic is America’s best-selling compact car since 1973.
Safety for Everyone
Based on the longstanding Honda “Safety for Everyone” approach, which focuses on advancing safety for everyone sharing the road, all 2025 Civic models are equipped with the Honda Sensing® suite of safety and driver-assistive technologies. This includes enhanced safety performance for 2025, with increased system visibility for motorcycles and bicycles for the Collision Mitigation Braking System™ (CMBS™) with Pedestrian Detection, and smoother, more natural feeling to the functions of both Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) and Lane Keeping Assist System (LKAS).
The standard Honda Sensing® suite of safety and driver-assistive technologies on Civic also includes Forward Collision Warning, and Road Departure Mitigation (RDM) incorporating Lane Departure Warning (LDW). All Sport models are also equipped with blind spot information with Rear Cross Traffic Alert. Honda Sensing® is now standard on all new Honda models, found on over 9 million Honda brand vehicles on U.S. roads today.
All Honda vehicles benefit from the proprietary Honda Advanced Compatibility Engineering™ (ACE™) body structure, designed to help protect occupants in a wide variety of frontal collisions, along with advanced supplemental restraint systems. When the Civic was last fully redesigned for the 2022 model year, Honda engineers enhanced ACE™ with a new structure that is optimized and integrated into the front sub-frame and side-frame that improves Civic crash compatibility with smaller vehicles, and occupant protection in oblique frontal collisions.
The 11th-generation Civic also became the first passenger vehicle in the world to use an all-new driver’s airbag specifically designed to reduce head rotation in a collision, especially an oblique collision. Using an innovative donut-shaped structure, the new airbag cradles and holds the head, mitigating rotation and reducing the likelihood of brain injury.
Civic also employs an award-winning Honda front passenger airbag that uses a three-chamber design that is particularly beneficial in angled frontal impacts in which lateral collision forces can cause an occupant’s head to rotate severely or slide off the airbag, increasing the chance of serious injury.
In addition to IIHS testing, every Honda model that has been fully evaluated in the NHTSA’s 2024 and 2025 model year NCAP testing (including the 2025 Civic hybrid), has received a 5-Star Overall Vehicle Score.
About Honda
Honda offers a full line of clean, safe, fun and connected vehicles sold through more than 1,000 independent U.S. Honda dealers. The award-winning Honda lineup includes the Civic and Accord, along with the HR-V, CR-V, Passport, Prologue and Pilot sport utility vehicles, the Ridgeline pickup and the Odyssey minivan. The Honda electrified vehicle lineup, representing more than a quarter of total sales in 2024, includes the all-electric Prologue SUV, the fuel-cell-electric CR-V e:FCEV, and hybrid-electric models including Accord, CR-V, and Civic, with a hybrid-electric Prelude set to join the lineup late this year.
Honda has been producing automobiles in America for over 40 years and currently operates eight major manufacturing facilities in America. In 2024, more than 99% of all Honda vehicles sold in the U.S. were made in North America, with about 60% made in America, using domestic and globally made parts.