Test drive Honda Civic sedan 2006 - 2008 sedan

I give the installation

When the queue is stretched for a year and longer, and even the most agile sellers strive to get a 100 percent prepayment from the buyer, you involuntarily begin to think about what a miracle is such a hatchback Sivic.
 



Banderlogs, come closer!
At the sight of a black, flaming car, I turned into a boy who first got into the children's world. Here it is, the coveted toy! Evil, swift, fit ... One optics is worth it! It’s just a futuristic combination of lenses and mirrors that stretched throughout the front part to call the headlights. The tongue does not turn. And after a few seconds you catch yourself thinking that this militant Samurai squint will drill you like a scanner. There are no equally expressive machines in the mass class.
 

On such an amazing background, a bright and attractive sedan immediately turns into a simply solid, ordinary car. With a completely ordinary look, ordinary body, ordinary trunk.
 

But who could have suggested that my new friend Sivik can manipulate consciousness no less skillfully than Messing, Kashpirovsky or Chumak. To make sure of this, first of all, you need to get behind the wheel.
 



At the flight control center
I almost jumped with impatience: what's inside? Monitors, buttons, control panels! Fiction! So, open the door ...

But how to revive the engine? For some reason, the key is simple, with an iron sting, and not some cunning thing, I already inserted into a larva on the steering column. The scales immediately lit up. He turned the key key and the control icons came to life. But the motor is silent. Ah, that's the matter! Unlike the sedan, I am offered to play the racer and press the red button in the upper left corner of the panel. Moreover, it is also necessary that the box lever is in the neutral position. Hooray! Now I'm in the game. Although somewhat strange. Usually, you need either a button or a key. Um ... Well, okay, get acquainted further.
 

 
The seats are not only beautiful, but also the body in high -speed turns hold well
 

The futuristic dashboard looks just gorgeous
 
  
On mirrors with backlighting in an expensive car do not save
 

There is a pocket for small magazines in the lid of a capacious glove box
 

Door handles are hidden in the corner of the glass frame


And I do not stop admiring the violent designer fantasy. It is strange that there is a steering wheel, pedals, a box lever. Some futuristic joystick for such a team center would have come even better. The most interesting idea is a semicircular, bunk, a dashboard built around the driver. It’s much easier for a sedan. The largest pointer in the hatchback is the same tachometer. Otherwise, everything is completely different. An on -board computer is inscribed in the circumference of the device. The floor is higher, closer to the windshield, a speedometer. On the right is another screen with the data of the radio and climate control.
 

That's just this flight control center, although it looks great, but far from the ideals of practicality. The glasses of the panel are glitted, and the abundance of darkened transparent plastic around the driver's place magnet for dust. We will have to wipe and inevitably scratch. By car with a mileage of several thousand, the panel already looks wiped. Here is the steering wheel in appearance, so easy a work of art. The equally convenient and bright one was found only on BMW-M3. Behind the knitting needles, too steep levers of gear shifts lurked. But why is the departure of the column scanty? Why did climate control end up in the blind zone behind the right hand, and not on the central console, as in the sedan?
 



Small tricks of a large magician
It is good that the only correct landing here can still be found: the back of the chair is almost vertically, the hands are bent at the elbows, the brushes on the steering wheel without ten two. I almost convinced the racer. Although the places, perhaps, are as much as in the best golf class machines.
 

Passengers are also trying to convince that they will have to go in an almost racing car. At first glance, the car has no rear doors at all. In fact, they are. Just narrow, and the pens are hidden in the rear racks. And the sofa in fact here is quite ordinary: convenient, without any brightly exposed lateral support. Two adults up to 185 cm tall here with acceptable comfort. Although the legs for the legs due to 65 mm shortened compared to the base of the base will be smaller.
   


The plate on the body reveals English origin
 

The rear sofa is quite spacious for two adults
 

When folding part of the back of the sofa, the pillow drops itself


And here is another curious and very characteristic detail for the Japanese deceiver: even by the volume of the trunk, the creators of the hatchback want to imagine the car not at all the same as it is. Almost a half-cub, more precisely, 455 DMZ, with a 5-seater landing, such numbers would be honored to any classmate. And besides, almost 100 DMZ more than that of the sedan. The focus is that so many five -door cubes will take away only if you score its hold to the ceiling, and not to the shelf, as the trunk of such bodies usually measure according to the German standard VDA.
 

But as soon as it hit the road, and the essence of this car seemed, and not to be actually manifested even more clearly.
 



Button would be unhappy
At first, quietly weaved in a traffic jam, only anticipating, as I am now packed in all sails. A sort of riding on a perfectly flat pit lane before the start of the race. But this is Honda, its 140-horsepower engine was designed by the very craftsmen who created champion engines for the wizard of Senna. Like all Honda, she must love to fly, love turns. Just give the floor gas pedal ... what happens next, with the word flight, you can’t link long pauses and strong nods with each switching. Here are the times ... But I well remember the excellent automatic machine that installed on sedans. And he is smooth, and he loves gambling. And this is perhaps the slowest robotic mechanics that I have come across.
 

You can reduce nods only if you ride literally in a whisper. Switching now occur at a smaller thrust of 20002500 rpm. There is another manual mode. To the left of the steering wheel immediately arises Rev, and a spectacular snake of red bulbs appears over it every now and then. This is a revolutionary limiter, as if in Honda formula 1 button. Let acceleration in fact not too impressive longer than 10 s to hundreds. Indeed, for those who need a real drive, and not special effects, there is a sivik with a 6-speed manual transmission 8.9 s to hundreds. But how spectacular it inspires you with a feeling of dynamics! Click on the steering wheel switch, and another portion of acceleration went.

 
  
Aluminum pads are in all 5-door sivics
 

To start the engine, you need to turn the key and press the start button


It is a pity, I did not succeed in getting from a traffic light that Avensis. But after a minute, not even that grieves. On irregularities somewhere in the left corner of the torpedo, a cricket started up. Aw, where are you, dear to my heart, the Japanese quality of the sedan? Hatbek, by the way, is collected in England ...
 



You are calm, look into your eyes and don't worry about anything
Next, you will not have to notice the noise of the wheels on the rough asphalt, bouncing on the bumps of the rear beam (the sedan has an independent launch vehicle, and on the hatchback, to save space, they put the beam working to twist). And then finally, the buzz can be fully obtained from the ride. The steering wheel of two with a quarter of turn, 17-inch tires of the 45th profile, clinging to the last to the last, minimal rolls all this pushes to go faster and faster. At 150 km/h, the motor is already working in the region of 4500 rpm. And now lucky as much as possible. Here he is, perhaps, the most pleasant moment of communication.
 

Sorry, the city is again ahead. The outside. The second. On a lying policeman I feel a distinct chirk! About a plastic skirt under the bumper in front from the ground to it only 8 cm. How to ride with such geometry in winter? However, as they say, to hell with details. This car has a more serious riddle. If a profitable sedan (and the four -door is just that) forces yourself to wait until six months, this can still be understood. But when they ask for a new-plating novelty as a good car with a class above ... Your will, this is already higher than my understanding.
 

But you, man, do not notice all this. I give you installation. Look directly at the mirror luminous surface. Bring $ 25,200 to the cash desk and put a signature under the contract. Now ... you are waiting for a year. And you are not worried about anything.
    
And even with a panoramic hatch

Hatchback can be ordered in three fixed trim levels. The engine is one 1.8 liters, 140 l. With. There are two gearboxes. The initial price for a five -door $ 25,200, for $ 5 thousand more than for a sedan. True, the equipment is significantly better. Of the Sibarit goods, in addition to the mandatory electric packet, air conditioning, ABS and CD magnetols, there is ESP and leather upholstery of the steering wheel. In the base of the manual transmission is not 5-, but 6-speed. Light alloy disks instead of stamped. The machine costs $ 1000. But if the sedan has a full-fledged automatic transmission with a hydrotransformer, our hero has a 6-speed robotic mechanic. For $ 1,400, hatchback will be with a panoramic hatch in the roof.
 
PER

Wonderful appearance, very lively motor, excellent handling, easily transformed trunk
AGAINST

Lines a length of a year, high price, hard suspension, low bumper, ergonomics flaws, stupid semi -automatic
 
 
Honda Civic 5d 1.8

common data
 
Body (number of places/doors)
hatchback (5/5)
 
Equipped mass, kg
1200
 
Length x width x height, mm
4250x1760x1460
 
Base, mm
2635
 
Trunk volume (5/2 places), l
455/1350
 
Speed, km/h
207
 
Acceleration time 0100 km/h, with
10.4
 
Fuel consumption, l/100 km
4.9/8
 
Fuel tank capacity, l
fifty
 

Engine


 
Working volume, SMZ
1798
 
Power, L.S. at rpm
140/6300
 
Torque, kgsm at rpm
17.7/4300
 

Chassis


 
Drive unit
On the front wheels
 
Transmission
6-speed manual transmission robotic
 
Suspension:
spring
 
front
Independent, such as McEferson
 
behind
semi -dependent, elastic transverse beam
 
Steering
rack type with amplifier
 
Brakes
disk, in front ventilated
 
Tires
225/45 R17
 

Car
from 0.19 $/km
 
 
Alexey Sergeev, photo of Maxim Goncharov
 
 

Source: Magazine buy a car [18/2006]