Now, there are a few caveats here, the largest of which is that when asked for comment, Honda told us that the Nikkei story is pure speculation, and that it has made “no announcements about Civic production for the U.S. market, relative to [its] European operations.” Also, whatever U.K.-built Civic is sent here, if it is at all, it won’t be sent here any time soon, leading us to believe we’re looking forward not to the current-generation Civic hatchback, but the next-generation model. Today’s Civic hatch wasn’t designed with North American regulations in mind—hence why we won’t be getting the epic Civic Type R—and rumor has it that the next-gen Civic will be a global product, meaning from California to Japan there will be Civics sold in more or less the same form.