Would that be the spiritual successor to the 2nd gen Civic or is it bigger? The power-to-weight ratio that delivers excellent gas mileage can be easily raised with an engine swap that delivers remarkable times in the quarter mile. They were a common sight for 15 years and I still saw a couple on the road last summer when I visited. It was replaced by a 1987 Acura Integra. City Hwy 1993 Honda Civic 4 cylinder 1. But in 1983, this was the biggest and only wagon Honda made, all 1900 lbs of it, 40% of what an Odyssey weighs.
Thank you so much for this site as I would have never even known this car existed without it! It hasn't run for over a year, I put in a battery and gas, and it fired right up. Through the years of automobiles, the marketplace has had cars that are hideously unsafe, with rust and environmental issues. A small date with a panel beater solved that wee problem and the Civic ran smoothly, economically and reliably for another couple of hundred thousand kilometres. When the car was new we got 42 mpg going 72 mph on a 4 hour trip. But the rest of these Civics were doing their best to cultivate the rep for longevity that Hondas quickly developed. By the way in the first pic with the white Civic, in the background is a Honda Fit? That one might be worth saving, despite what became of the rest of themβ¦!! Winning bidder will be responsible for transport. The Civic, while still successful, is not what it once was β it has lost its original essence.
I thought they all rusted away by now. Bought from the original owner in 1992. My 1999 Civic got only 32-34 mpg at 75 mph New Mexico highway max. My brother bought a 2 year old used 4 speed hatch to replace his 1970 Cougar, and it gave him several years of cheap and reliable service. My father had moved in with us and it was easier to use than the Legend. So what do I remember about it? Only Honda seemed to know that. The first time the engine ended up tipped back into the firewall, but it still ran sweetly although made a fair bit of noise vibrating on the firewall! Being an interference engine, that of course meant it wiped out every valve and damaged a couple pistons too.
There is a ton of things that can be done, and should have. Funny how folks latch on to 1 item about a car, then repeat it ad nauseum about all cars of the brand. That dealer Don Ayres in Fort Wayne sells Hondas to this day, long after Pontiac has disappeared. It was a very nice car in my opinion and it was babied all the way up to January 1986. Payment within 3 days of auction end. The compression can be more or less, and so on. The reliability issue was the biggest reason for selling it, but the folks started wondering about its relative safety after seeing the remains of another Gen 1 Civic that had been in a head-on with a drunk, resulting in a double fatality.
The vinyl used in the wagons and most hatches seems to survive ok. Neither has ever had a lay-off, either. City Highway 2013 Honda Civic 4 cylinder 1. I get about 26 on my 2008 Civic 5Spd doing only short hops and got 39 on mostly highway driving. I or the wife drove it until 2003, when our son blew the engine for the second time by running it out of oil. We drove it to Utah and all around the southwest a few years back. These companies are very well run and have an excellent corporate culture, one of customer first.
This generation also had rounded lines of a timeless nature and mechanical simplicity. What people do not understand, is how an engine is build. I slowed to 65 mph on the return trip and increased to 42 mpg. I assure you that a whole lot of fat Cougars and T-Birds were being traded in on these cute baby sedans during that massive run-up in gas prices right when this generation arrived. I generally get about 42 overall driving. We drove several of those early Hondas including 2 weeks with a Hondamatic wagon around 1976 after I wrecked the LeMans.
I am finding this website very useful in choosing my next car. But two cars really stand out from all the ones I wrote up at the old site, because the response was so uniformly unanimous and polarized about them. It was clean for its age, I figured hell its a slushbox sedan so it cant possible be thrashed. But it was just the first mild preview of ever hotter coming attractions. The cars today also have amazing emissions compared to their ancestors. That one had 122,000 miles when I sold it to my cousin.
While we have not had the opportunity to test the 2013 Civic yet, we reviewed the and found it to outperform the official fuel economy estimates: Honda Civic Gas Mileage β 2002-2013 Year Manf. It also got much better mileage than the other service truck. You should add the engine type info also. The late 90s saw it spin on a corner into a roadside ditch. On the first tank it returned 37. Highway with the speeds 70+ it is actaually lower at about 38. Again, thank you for this site, and I will post what the car gets for mileage when I get the engine in.