Often, when automakers integrate fun Easter eggs inside their new cars, they like to shout it from the rooftops for everyone to hear. Honda takes a different approach and keeps its hidden features, well, hidden. So hidden, in fact, that when a group of Honda designers came up with a unique little design touch inside the center console of the the redesigned, 10th-generation Honda Civic, they didn’t even tell Honda’s own public-relations department about it at first.
To find the buried treasure, you’ll first have to locate a 2016 or 2017 Honda Civic sedan or coupe in EX trim or above?like our long-term 2016 Civic Touring sedan, for instance. (The U.K.-built Civic hatchback is left out of the fun.) Then you have to start digging in the center console until you find the rubber spill mat at the bottom. Remove the mat, turn it over, and you’ll find an embossed picture on the underside with one of four impeccably detailed designs celebrating Honda’s racing and engineering history. Design #1: Honda RA106 F1 Car, Honda S800, Honda RC213V Motorcycle, HondaJet

Honda’s long and illustrious motorsports history is on full display in this design. The Formula 1 car is the RA106 car driven by Jenson Button in 2006, when the stand-alone Honda team returned to F1 for the first time since 1968. The pictured Honda S800 sports car won the GT-1 class in an endurance race at Japan’s Suzuka circuit in 1968. With MotoGP champion Marc Márquez at the hel...