One of these countries even relaunched the car with a minor facelift and call it the New City.
Also, didn't know that about India. Point is, HACPL has to deal with two cars. Civic and City. In India, it's only City. It makes sense to launch a more expensive car there.
Trust me, I also wanted the 7th gen, but it would have been at the price of a Civic and if that happened, we would be sitting here calling Honda dumb.
Also, if you consider the situation right now, Civic is going to start at 50 lacs? That leaves ample space for Honda to bring the 7th gen at the price of 1.8L Civic. Not like they are going to bring it before another 5 6 years, but one can hope lol