If one Civic went by every second and you wanted to wait for the entire line to go past, you’d be standing there for 15.3 hours.

Autonet.ca tells us a little bit about Civic by the numbers.

This is the time of year when car sales numbers for 2011 are announced. But to hear that a manufacturer sold x-number of cars in a year, what does that really tell you? Are 10,000 vehicles a lot? Are 50,000 sold a good number? How do we know? For most of us, picturing 50,000 of anything is basically a blur. Canada’s top selling passenger car is the Honda Civic, with sales of 55,090 units in 2011. That is 10,000 units over its nearest competitor.

Let’s put the feat by Honda in perspective. Let’s say you stood outside your home at the edge of the road and all the Honda Civics were there in a line, all 55,090 of them. How long would the line be? Well, you’d have to have really, really good eyesight as the line would be just over 248 kilometres (each Civic is 4503.42mm long). Now, none of us can see that far, so to make sure they are all there, let’s have that whole line of Civics drive past– just to make sure they are all there. Care to guess how long you’d be standing there?

Well, if one Civic went by every second and you wanted to wait for the entire line to go past, you’d be standing there for just over 15 hours (15.3 hours to be exact). Now Civics don’t come out of a dealership every second. They come out about every three and a half minutes, which is still pretty quick. That’s 312 days a year a Honda dealership is open (six days a week, usually), at an average of about 60 hours per week, meaning about 17.6 Civics per hour leave the showroom with a new owner, or about one every 3.5 minutes somewhere in Canada on an average work day.

Now, Canada has 10 Provinces. That means 1.88 Civics are sold in each Province, each hour, every day of the year. As you can see, that is a lot of Civics. Also, keep in mind, Honda is much more than just Civics, there are all the other models, plus the Acura line.