When Honda unwrapped the 2012 Civic here within the U.S. it was met with criticism for looking like the old model. While Honda within the U.S. was specializing in updating its all-new model, Honda in Europe was targeting expanding its Civic lineup. Today Honda announced it’ll unveil the Civic Wagon concept in addition to the production-ready diesel-powered CR-V next month on the Geneva Motor Show. The Honda Civic Wagon concept sketch shows a vehicle that’s probably in the direction of production than prototype. The rear-three quarter view shows that the Civic Wagon concept retains lots of the same lines because the Euro-spec Civic hatchback, including the swooping body creases across the rear-wheel arches, and the hidden rear-door handles. In back, the Civic Wagon concept has center-exit exhaust and tasty taillights...

The Chicago Auto Show is traditionally some of the smaller and colder auto shows at the circuit, and Ford is capitalizing with some small, but hot hatchbacks. Ford has just announced that its factory-backed Global RallyCross Championship Fiesta ST race car and the Ken Block-designed Focus TrackSTer will debut this week in Chicago. Many rally enthusiasts were left wondering why when Ford announced it was withdrawing full-support from the area Rally Championship late last year. With the Ford Fiesta ST GRC, we’ve got our answer – Ford will now be putting all of its eggs within the Global RallyCross basket. Built by Swedish race car builders OlsbergMSE with support from Ford Racing, the Fiesta ST GRC might be useful spearhead the launch of the road-going Fiesta ST. The OlsbergMSE Fiesta...