It's unusual for Honda Motor Co. Ltd. to deviate from its rigid model-replacement schedule,
particularly for its bread-and-butter volume models such as the Civic. But that's just what the company is doing with the planned Civic replacement, pushing back the car's introduction from this fall until sometime next year. The next-generation Civic apparently was not on competitive target - and Honda sent it back to the garage for some tinkering. Although some analysts and industry insiders think Honda's choice to rejigger the Civic is a positive signal, the fact the Civic has to go back to the drawing board at such a late stage speaks plenty about how far Honda has drifted from its once-indomitable methods.
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