Test drive Honda Civic sedan 2000 - 2003 sedan

A completely different Civic

I'm not at all sure that the new is well forgotten old. The new Honda does not repeat a single cell of its newborn body. This is a completely different car is large, beautiful and powerful.
The new Civic has reached Russia as a four -door sedan. The car is visually larger and wider than its predecessor. The length of the machine is 4460 mm, which is not bad for a typical city car, and the width of 1715 mm is also not children. With such parameters, Civic almost caught up with the older brother of Accord. The appearance of Civic, like many of the last Japanese, is not devoid of a certain style, but devoid of individuality. The new Civic is beautiful, this does not cause doubt, but ... the old Sivic was recognizable by huge front headlights, a special hobby hood, and the rear lights were part of the original image. Unfortunately, the new Japanese is not an individualist. It seems to me that if you place another icon on the radiator’s grill, then no one will notice the substitutions, and the rear lights are very similar to Mitsubishi Diamante lanterns. But this, in my opinion, is not so scary, because the main thing is that the car has inside.
Salon. Black fabric, soft plastic, not a single acute angle. The salon is strict and high -quality, like a good suit. Traditionally hard Honda seats with good lateral support and three adjustments allow the driver of any complexion conveniently accommodate. People higher than average are very missing for adjusting the steering column along the length. Manipulations with the seat slightly improve the situation, but you still have to reach for the steering wheel. A large, soft steering wheel with sports stamping and Eirbeh walks in a vertical plane, while neither at the lower nor at the top point it blocks the instrument panel (speedometer, tachometer, digital ozometer, temperature indicators and fuel level). The automatic gearbox mode is successfully placed. The dashboard smoothly leads to the controls of the climatic installation. Large central deflectors crown a semicircular console. Here is a hole for the radio, and not only for standard, but also 2DIN, and three buttons: heating the rear window, recirculation and turning on the air conditioner. The climate control handles are vertically, closer to the driver, everything can be adjusted without taking off your hands from the steering wheel.
So that you are not cold in winter, the front seats are equipped with heating. The device works quickly and turns off itself just at the moment when it is necessary. And in general, the entire ventilation and heating system acts very well. Automatic gearbox lever. Ship from below, the original insert for metal and large, easily readable characters. Having taken the handle once, I don’t want to let it out, it is so convenient.
Of the pleasant little things in the Honda salon, I want to note the electric drives of the hatch and glasses, the electric drive of mirrors, also equipped with heated, and two large cup holders. The standard equipment also includes an immobilizer and a central lock. The rear seat, judging by the absence of an armrest, is designed for three passengers. Indeed, even three adults will not touch each other's knees, since the floor in the back of the Sivik salon is even.
In addition to four airbags, the standard completion of the new car includes belts with pretense and amplifier beams in the doors. Trunk. Low loading height and even walls allow you to transport a very impressive amount of things. If you are not enough 450 liters of a standard volume, then it is easy to increase at your service 1: 2 back of the rear seat. Before you hit the road, let's look at the hood. A 16-valve VTECII engine of 1.6 liters has a power of 110 hp. at 5600 rpm, good and torque 152 nm at 4300 rpm.
We sit down comfortably and start the engine, not forgetting to keep the leg on the brake. The motor works quietly and begins to bite when the checkpoint selector is transferred to D. You can move smoothly on Sivik, but difficult. The machine accelerates sharply and rushes into the distance, very quickly gaining maximum speed. At full gas, the machine switches to 6,000 rpm, although the limiter is idle at 5000. The family line of all Honda cars is low sound of the motor, accompanied by a slight whistle. 11 seconds to hundreds of the figure is quite believable, although by subjective sensations it is less than a second for two. After 80 km/h, the steering wheel with an electric power becomes less soft, and the reactions are more accurate.
On the speedometer more than 100 km/h, and the car floats on the Moscow Ring Road calmly and confidently. Probably, when they created a new Sivik, they thought about the famous Hikari express, which run between Tokyo and Osaka. Light (1240 kg of full mass), the car, coupled with a powerful traction engine, is worthily competing with more powerful and voluminous brothers. We can say a completely unambiguous second of the same fast car with the same volume of the engine simply. The maneuverability and the ability to harsh rebuilding Honda is very good, although a fat ass slightly blows in corners.
What Sivik does not like at all is road irregularities, joints and other things. The hard, almost sports suspension of Honda in front of MacPherson, the two -leafed immediately transfers all the blows to the body. Review could be better, especially the back. High food and headrests narrow the visibility zone, and all the time you have to resort to the help of external mirrors. Good acceleration implies confident braking. Then Sivik once again pleased. Front brakes disk, ventilated, rear drum, plus Abs. Sivik slows down smoothly, depending on the strength of pressing the pedal. ABS works just when necessary.
A quick and high -quality sivik in the basic configuration in the salons of official dealers costs about 21 thousand dollars. The new Honda repeats and increases the advantages of the former Sivik, the machine has grown significantly both in comfort and technical terms. I am sure that Honda Sivik of a new generation will certainly become a very popular model in the Russian market.
Maxim Rakitin
Photo by Alexander Nozdrin
 

Source: Cars