1) They know things aren't going as well as they used too with failures like the Insight and their Accord hatch thing . So it's time for that Honda pride to kick in and match their older commercials .
2) The hairs on the back of their neck are standing up with Hyundai blowing on them .
3) The next Civic was going to be bigger , so chances are they might put a 2 liter in it ( 1.5 , 1.6 ,1.8 ,maybe a 2 this time ) .
4) Since not doing d.i. ( that would be a real hat trick ) 2 liter will keep up with the upcoming d.i. crowd .
5) Since the new Civic is not bigger as originally planned , it will be lighter than the original planned Civic , meaning the 2 liter ? planned for it will perform better than expected in it !
6) They have always made bang for your buck engines , engineering them is what they do best ,
they make more engines than any company in the whole world - lots of practice .
7) They have always made great sticks .
Styling will be improved as the front end drawing pic floating around shows .
Can't wait till the Jan show to see it, in concept anyway.