It has been for a while that I heard about the speculation of upcoming Honda Civic replacement model by many folks. Sorry to say, this is a bad news for you.

In an interview with AutoWeek, Honda USA executive vice president John Mendel said that changing market conditions and tougher fuel economy and emissions regulations have strongly affected the development of the next-generation Civic.

In another words, it means that the new model won't be appearing until sometime in late-2011. AutoWeek also reports that the Civic’s redesign has been altered along the way during the development stage. The new model was supposed to be larger than the current model, but now it has been redesigned to be closer in size to the current one. Not sure how it going to look like for now, but I hope it Honda will keep the Civic with astonishing design.