Test drive Honda Civic sedan 2006 - 2008 sedan

Japanese city

A storm of emotions frozen in metal
Want to turn your heads after your car? Then Civic!
The rear spoiler is one of the main disadvantages of the new Civic. It terribly interferes with the view through the salon mirror
The side doors are actually four. The rear are disguised as a certain technique of placing handles in the racks. Alfa-Romeo, Au!
The wedge -shaped silhouette and stingy glazing hide the size of the car and it is no less than that of competitors
True, our company GOLF is not a price tag, because Honda Civic $ 24,900 in the database. Since 1972, 16.5 million civic has already diverged around the world, so it is only two lines below the golf in the list of the most replicated machines. Today, the eighth generation of Civic is already on the conveyor, and this is a real car-it has to wait a year.
 
The creators of Civic went not in the way than the creators of Golf. They refused a multi -link suspension. She was left for the sedan, while the hatchback was awarded a banal twisting beam. The reckoning for this is a rather strong shaking. This is the victim that the Japanese brought to the altar of the drive, and the gods of speed accepted her.
Civic is going so that you involuntarily choose the longest ways home from behind the steering wheel I just do not want to get out. A 1.8 l engine with a capacity of 140 horses up to 4000 rpm is calm, but after the I-VTEC it changes the moment and the degree of valve opening and a persistent pickup occurs. Acceleration to 100 km/h 8.9 s. There is only two with a quarter of a turn from edge to edge to the drive and a short steering wheel. The lever of a six -speed gearbox is also in short passages, but the clutch pedal will require a certain habit of at first switching are somewhat twitching.
 
On the driving manner, the car turned out so stupid that sometimes it seems that it is not a city car, but a map of the overgrown, so stubbornly Civic clings to the road in corners. And this despite the fact that the amusing is by no means drivership 65:35.
 
But still, the most strongly in Civic is surprising that you can live with this machine and even have a family. And let the wife squint at you in displeasure when you are shaking on the bumps, but she will undoubtedly be pleased that Civic still does not have three, but five doors. Yes, the rear handles were hidden in the same place where we already found them with Alfa-Romeo, but Alpha did not have such a practical luggage solution.
 
Here the gas tank is moved to the front seats, as a result, the rear folds are folded with only one handle, and a flat platform is obtained. The volume of the trunk is also pleased with 415 liters. Still, the opening of the fifth door was wider, it would be very good. But here, the designers, apparently, took the engineers by the throat and insisted on their own.
 
As a result, access to the trunk will require a certain dexterity, as well as reverse backwards back, such that a novice driver will inevitably become bad, especially in winter, because there is still no rear janitor. But, it is enough to turn forward, and it will become easy again on the heart. In Honda, they remembered well that a child lives in every man, and they gave him what he wanted toys so much.
 
There is a bright tachometer in the foreground, which has somewhat departed to the second role of a digital speedometer and two scales along its edges. If you follow the readings of the left, find out when it is better to switch the program in order to get the maximum return. If you obey the instructions of the right will go in the most economical mode. In short, as in a fairy tale: you will look to the left to go faster, you’ll see the gasoline to the right. But the Japanese took the start mechanism. Yes, there is a fashionable starter button, but before pressing it, you need to insert and turn the key. Here, in general, everything, unlike the same Golf, is not so obvious. But this is its own buzz. In general, if you want to stand out to you in the Honda salon. True, first you have to stand in line from the same originals, and the line will be considerable.
 
 
   
   
18-inch wheels and overlays on the thresholds and bumper tuning body kit. In my opinion, meaningless
The lever of the manual transmission is the top of accuracy in its area. But the pointed tan, offered in the optional kit, I would give the enemy!
Civic's chairs are another subject for pride for the whole day of driving no fatigue!
The combination of cosmic materials caresses the eye and hand
A variegated pile of interior details in practice does not look like a gypsy. Everything is functional and high -quality
The volume of the trunk is 455/1350 l. Paradox: in the most compact car, the most spacious luggage compartment. But the loading edge is high and narrowed

The speedometer spaced in height and tachometer are read great
Honda Civic
Engine
Type gasoline
Working volume, cm3 1799
Max. Power, l. With. at about./min 140/6300
Max. moment, NM at about./min 174/4300
Dynamics
Maximum speed, km/h 205
Acceleration 0100 km/h, from 8.9
common data
Fuel consumption (EU), l/100 km, city 8.4
Fuel consumption (EU), l/100 km, highway 5.5
Fuel tank volume, l 50
Wheel base, mm 2635
Length, mm 4248
Width, mm 1765
Height, mm 1460
Diameter of the turn, m 11
Clearance, mm 150
A mass of equipment/full., Kg 1270/1750
Price, $ 24 900
 
Text Anton Ivanov
Photo Alexander Nozdrin
 

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