The expensive and exceptional Civic Type R may get more of the buzz, but Honda still makes a relatively affordable manual performance car, too. That variant, the Civic Si, is getting an update for 2025 without losing its signature standard manual transmission.

The Civic Si gains heated seats and shift lights in the instrument cluster for 2025—two features Canadian buyers have already been enjoying.

Honda is showering the 2025 Civic Si sedan in this kind of goodwill, starting by heating your buns. That's right, the heated seats that Honda removed from the Civic Si when it was last redesigned for 2022 are back this year—and are joined by a host of other snazzier content,

Honda is dropping manual transmissions from the regular 2025 Civic, but it’s also made the manual-only Civic Si a nicer package in the process.

We previously reported that lower, more appliance-like trim levels of the 2025 Honda Civic will only come with automatic transmissions, and some will have hybrid powertrains. But our thoughts about the higher performance Si model retaining a stick shift have proven to be true.

The Honda Civic Si has long been a solid in-between point, filling the performance gap between the standard Civic and the much hotter Civic Type R. Honda gave the car an overhaul for the 2025 model year,

There's more tech and standard equipment, too.

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And for the Si specifically, it has darkened taillights and new 18-inch wheels. Honda also added Urban Gray Pearl as a new color for this year's Si. And inside, the Si now gets a larger 10.2-inch digital instrument cluster to go along with the bigger 9-inch infotainment display.

Imagine reading that headline forty years ago upon the debut of the very first Honda Civic Si for North America. In 1985, the mere presence of fuel injection was enough to warrant