{"id":36250,"date":"2026-06-04T13:26:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=36250"},"modified":"2026-06-04T13:26:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:26:36","slug":"payne-affordably-chic-honda-civic-vs-hyundai-sonata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/payne-affordably-chic-honda-civic-vs-hyundai-sonata","title":{"rendered":"Payne: Affordably chic, Honda Civic vs. Hyundai Sonata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/03\/PDTN\/90381898007-honda-civic-side.jpg?width=660&amp;height=355&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"The 2026 Honda Civic Sport offers entry-level, sub-$30k pricing with lots of tech.\" width=\"532\" height=\"286\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"gnt_pg_img_cap\"><em>The 2026 Honda Civic Sport offers entry-level, sub-$30k pricing with lots of tech.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>Henry Payne, The Detroit News<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Miami<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 Sleek, roomy and high-tech, today\u2019s mainstream sedans are proof that affordability still exists in a U.S. market where average vehicle purchases have soared over $50K.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Take the terrific $30,945 Hyundai Sonata Blue Hybrid and $27,890 Honda Civic Sport I just flogged around Miami and Detroit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Who needs a luxury badge?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/2026\/06\/04\/review-affordably-chic-honda-civic-vs-hyundai-sonata\/90373486007\/\">Read full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 Honda Civic Sport offers entry-level, sub-$30k pricing with lots of tech. Henry Payne, The Detroit News Miami\u00a0\u2014 Sleek, roomy and high-tech, today\u2019s mainstream sedans are proof that affordability still exists in a U.S. market where average vehicle purchases have soared over $50K. Take the terrific $30,945 Hyundai Sonata Blue Hybrid and $27,890 Honda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36251,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36250\/revisions\/36251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}