2023 Honda Civic Hatchback Safety and Reliability

The Honda Civic Hatchback's safety is very good and the NHTSA gave it five stars for most of the crash tests and for the overall score, with only the frontal impact scoring four stars. The car fared even better at the IIHS, which gave it its best Good score for all criteria except for the updated side test, for which it received an Acceptable result. These results were sufficient to bag the 2023 Civic an IIHS Top Safety Pick award.

All Civic hatch models come with the Honda Sensing Safety Suite of driver-assist technologies, which includes a collision-mitigation braking system, road-departure mitigation, lane-keep assist, forward-collision warning, lane-departure warning, and traffic-sign recognition. Adaptive cruise control is also standard with low-speed follow assist, but this pertains only to CVT-equipped cars. The same applies to traffic jam assist. Blind-spot monitoring is added from the EX-L trim, and the Sport Touring gets cross-traffic monitoring and parking sensors front and rear.

Every Civic comes with a rear-seat reminder, a rearview camera with dynamic guidelines, and the expected active safety systems like tire-pressure monitoring, ABS, and stability and traction control. There are ten airbags on the Civic hatch, including driver and front passenger knee airbags, side curtain airbags with a rollover sensor, and rear-seat side airbags.

The 2022 Civic range was recall-free and, at the time of writing, this was also true of the 2023 model. JD Power awards 2023 Civic models an 80 out of 100 for quality and reliability; even the previous generation suffered from few recalls with the most recent being a single one in 2020 for a potential fuel pump failure.

All new Civics come with a three-year/36,000-mile basic warranty and coverage for the powertrain for five years or 60,000 miles.