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[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Hopefully its a future I wont be around to see when it gets here. Internal combustion engines are exciting sexy machines. Tarted up milk floats never will be. 

[Marks DTM Calib]

Hopefully its a future I wont be around to see when it gets here. Internal combustion engines are exciting sexy machines. Tarted up milk floats never will be. 

I love the ICE, but the milk float suits the wife and round town driving, plus the traffic light grand prix performance is nothing short of stunning 

............and it handles rather well to

[deviator]

Late to the party. I've driven/owned all three, granted a lot older than you are looking at.

Merc - I believe it's just a Megane in drag. I'm not a fan of Mercs, expensive to maintain and the suspension is far too crashy for modern road conditions. (Driven a friends car a few times, he's had about 4 of them)
Golf - Or as I prefer to call them, Flog (as I consider them a bit backwards). Adequate, but bland. I wasn't a fan of the offset steering in the one I had (the steering wheel was 1-1.5 inches over to the right, meaning I was twisted in the seat whilst driving it.) (Company car for 6 months, did about 2k a month)
Civic - I like them. Reliable, not bad on fuel, toys are aplenty and quite a fun drive when pushing on. OK mine is the Type S (2.0 lukewarm version), I'd certainly buy another one, especially with the K20/K24 engine, these are tunable and pretty bulletproof. (Owned for about 18 months)

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Hopefully its a future I wont be around to see when it gets here. Internal combustion engines are exciting sexy machines. Tarted up milk floats never will be. 

I love the ICE, but the milk float suits the wife and round town driving, plus the traffic light grand prix performance is nothing short of stunning 

............and it handles rather well to

No soul though. An efficient machine like a decent washing machine. 

[STEMO]

Late to the party. I've driven/owned all three, granted a lot older than you are looking at.

Merc - I believe it's just a Megane in drag. I'm not a fan of Mercs, expensive to maintain and the suspension is far too crashy for modern road conditions. (Driven a friends car a few times, he's had about 4 of them)
Golf - Or as I prefer to call them, Flog (as I consider them a bit backwards). Adequate, but bland. I wasn't a fan of the offset steering in the one I had (the steering wheel was 1-1.5 inches over to the right, meaning I was twisted in the seat whilst driving it.) (Company car for 6 months, did about 2k a month)
Civic - I like them. Reliable, not bad on fuel, toys are aplenty and quite a fun drive when pushing on. OK mine is the Type S (2.0 lukewarm version), I'd certainly buy another one, especially with the K20/K24 engine, these are tunable and pretty bulletproof. (Owned for about 18 months)

 

[STEMO]

Hopefully its a future I wont be around to see when it gets here. Internal combustion engines are exciting sexy machines. Tarted up milk floats never will be. 

I love the ICE, but the milk float suits the wife and round town driving, plus the traffic light grand prix performance is nothing short of stunning 

............and it handles rather well to

No soul though. An efficient machine like a decent washing machine. 

I had an alfa 166 3.2 V6 that had 'soul'. Never again.

[Nick W]

Hopefully its a future I wont be around to see when it gets here. Internal combustion engines are exciting sexy machines. Tarted up milk floats never will be. 

I love the ICE, but the milk float suits the wife and round town driving, plus the traffic light grand prix performance is nothing short of stunning 

............and it handles rather well to

No soul though. An efficient machine like a decent washing machine. 

'Soul' is a daft concept when applied to people. Using it to make an engines unavoidable flaws(noise, heat, vibration, smell and other noxious emissions) seem desirable characteristics is just marketing.


An inefficient machine is just junk.

[henryd]

Hopefully its a future I wont be around to see when it gets here. Internal combustion engines are exciting sexy machines. Tarted up milk floats never will be. 

I love the ICE, but the milk float suits the wife and round town driving, plus the traffic light grand prix performance is nothing short of stunning 

............and it handles rather well to

No soul though. An efficient machine like a decent washing machine. 

I had an alfa 166 3.2 V6 that had 'soul'. Never again.

The noise is blissful though(when it works)

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Soul / character, call it what you want. Electric cars will never have it. 

[STEMO]

Soul / character, call it what you want. Electric cars will never have it. 

Perhaps when the bearings on the motors start to fail, and the battery will only charge to 15%. Then it will have character 

[Rangie]

My mate has swapped his Toyota today for a new Civic he really looks into vehicles thoroughly before purchasing , he had a test drive a couple of weeks ago and decided to order one on the spot sent me a couple of pics, looks really nice metallic white with black alloys . He owns a couple of classic MGs as well a Midget & a MGB GT V8 . As a daily driver he reckons the Honda is perfect.

[Doctor Gollum]

Bless his heart

[Marks DTM Calib]

I rated the previous Civic even if the suspension and handling was not as good as the generation before it (cost cutting from the Bean Counters - loss of the IRS).

The new one is an awful looking thing, which is a shame as its predecessor had actually moved things on.

Honda are having a quite a lot of build and reliability issues at the moment (displays and infotainment hardware are particularly badly hit but, when you look at the internals its not surprising, as its been over-cheapened)

[Rangie]

They seem very popular at the moment loads round here ,I suppose they are quite cheap for a new car , a real shame though if they are having issues with them.

[STEMO]

Sounds like they're all shite, then. Apart from the golf, which is boring. Never mind, plenty of time.