The year of manufacture is end95/early96 and the location is the beach in Sunderland, North-East England. That is the North Sea in the background. Only had it a few months and it is filthy already. I thought Honda's washed themselves. Trying to break my addiction to GTI's/GTE's - had enough of bone-shaking rides. Check out www.honda.co.uk for some more models with differences. I think the current Civic is different to US Civic also.