Test Drive Honda Civic Sedan 2000 - 2003 Sedan

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Honda Civic is not new to the automotive market, and in its class in particular. Cars with such a name have been produced for almost three decades, and during this time the designers have already managed to decide on priorities and overcome in the car almost all children's diseases. What is in the asset? The famous brand, magnificent assembly quality and eventually incredible reliability throughout the life, spacious salon and a pleasant design.
 
Unlike a five-door version, a modification with Sedan's body looks less defiantly and futuristic, more traditional or something, so attracts attention not only with its hidden advantages, but also a really pleasant design. But, as before, in terms of the elegance of the exterior of Civic, it does not reach European representatives of this class - with all the external attractiveness of the car, some can not carefully consider it faceless. But we can say that in this model, and in this modification, in particular, in a complete set there are all family features - the owner of any Honda is probably unmistakably determine this car as its own, and this is probably the main merit.
 
However, there are other advantages. The new model, regardless of the type of body, will delight the owner an unusually spacious interior. Although, on the other hand, Honda Civic is one of the most expensive golf cars, because the price of it starts from $ 10180 for a version with a 1.4-liter motor. And let the Civic, with this engine, has very vague dynamic characteristics, in which we could make sure that the example of a five-door hatchback, whose test passed this summer, is still the price of it causes. Although it stops few of whom - the owners of Honda Civic previous generations, have time to take the car, for sure when buying a new car, other options do not even consider.
 
The image of the Japanese BMW has a very positive effect on the level of car sales of Honda around the world, and quite a large percentage of the total number of cars sold amounted to charged sports modifications. Previously, such cars carried the VTEC index, now, in the current generation, when all the motors have a branded system of changing the phases of gas distribution, sports modifications are indicated by the Type-R index. And again, unlike the previous generation cars, new Civic no longer claim to the title of Japanese analogue of the Bavarian cars. According to all experts who tested the various versions of the new Honda Civic, it became more comfortable and comfortable, while the particle of his sports charm was at the same time. True, not everything is so sad: the real sports Civic-and did not disappear at all, simply the company deliberately allocated a charged modification almost in a separate model. In his desire to make a new model as successful as possible in the commercial sense, the company deliberately went to such a step. Now for the whole of the former sports glory of Honda, one model is fused - Sivic Type-R.
 
This modification is manufactured with one type of body - 3-door hatchback, but, on the envy of owners of conventional smallts, equipped with a 200-strong engine and a 6-speed manual transmission. Naturally, with such a set, the car is not much reminded of its serial fellow: thanks to special suspension and initially more hard body, the Type-R version is now not just a slightly more sporting modification of the usual Civic, but a truly drivever car. But this does not mean that ordinary modifications have now become phlegmatic and slow, on the contrary, even the 1.4-liter basic version pleases quite Hondovsky. The point is in another: even with a more powerful engine, the car is now felt less acute, and at the same speed, the previous generation seemed more high-speed and dynamic. However, we are not dynamic than one we appreciate the new car: in all parameters that really affect the level of convenience of operation and the degree of functionality of the car, the new Honda Civic significantly exceeds all competitors, especially those who have entered the market a couple of years ago, to the current fashion on Single bodies in this class.
 
With the current innovations, especially with an outstanding Peugeot 307, Civic-u to fight is difficult, but if the Frenchman offers incredibly stylish appearance and a spacious salon, but the quality of it is not much different from other French cars, the Japanese in this respect is simply indicative: to all With its indisputable advantages, the car in terms of quality is 100% Japanese.
 
By the way, if you compare the safety qualities of both competitors who have a pronounced single-visual body, then the Japanese car in this regard is felt like a passenger, higher peugeot 307 when driving on our far from the smallest roads sinters with a noticeable transverse star. Honda Civic on his background is generally felt like a car with a GTI icon: landing is lower, the smoothness of the stroke is an order of magnitude higher, and the place, oddly enough, despite the smaller height, in the cabin of the Japanese car (meaning five-door hatchback) was a little more . In general, if it were not for the disputed design, the new Honda Civic could fight the car of the year, although only time can show who will still be in the leaders.
 
Honda Civic, it does not matter to which generation belonging to, always stood a mansion from others, perhaps, no less worthy and reliable representatives of a small middle class. Successful symbiosis is slightly aggressive, but at the same time very pretty and practically unstable appearance, economical, but very crazy, and sometimes even crazy-crayled engines and outstanding challenges, multiplied by high quality and thoughtful design, always did Honda Civic if not the leader , At least a very serious competitor. Yes, the car has never been available to wide masses, was distinguished by a relatively high level of prices for spare parts and maintenance, but at the same time few of its owners still wanted to change the brand or model, acquiring a new car. Is this not an indication that the model really found his niche and their buyers? Although, maybe, the whole thing is simply in a high degree of reliability of cars of this brand in general and specifically Honda Civic in particular. By a member of the definition of one of the American magazines, at the factory, this car was simply not taught to break. And one of the factors of the incredible reliability of this car can serve as a relatively high price of its second-hand.
 
In this regard, Civic and practically leading the used cars in the market, and the only one who makes them worthy competition is VW Golf III. So buying a new Honda Civic is not only the acquisition of a stylish, reliable and beautiful car, but also sober, cold calculation.
 
Text: Pavel Kozlovsky
 

A source: "Autogase"