JonBoy

9th Gen was built on a budget due to GFC and Honda severely underestimating the market requirements for the Civic. It was a well-built car but it lacked the styling, updates and features of the competition.

The 8th Gen had issues with potential cracks in the engine block (casting flaws), mainly for 2006 models but those had an eight-year, unlimited mileage replacement warranty so Honda stepped up to cover them properly (and I saw a few claims that they extended it to ten years but I didn't bother to confirm). The actual number of impacted vehicles is quite low. Also, "cracks" mean hairline cracks in the water jacket - it's not an actual split block or anything like that.

FearlessFife

My 9th gen ate up oil. I was lucky and got it addressed just in the nick of time.

LUV2REV

Funny how so many lament the 10th generation Civic as polarizing, ugly.... yet it is the most successful Civic iteration in terms of sales by a stretch. Clearly the buying populous disagrees with the aforementioned sentiments. And the new Civic is bland and boring, go figure.

engifineer

well to be fair, the old late 80's civics could not have looked more boring and utilitarian but look how much they are adored now :P I guess after so many being modded the appeal changed for a lot of people. Maybe in 20-30 years this new boring looking Civic will be all the rage!

Same goes for lot of cars that in their day were "meh" but now have growing groups of followers.

zeroptzero

It might be close to being a midsize car soon, each generation looks bigger.

zze86

People thought they were too big and wanted something more akin to the 5th gen's headlights. Welcome to the eyelids modification.

WolfpackS2k

it's not really funny, actually predictable. The most successful BMW 7 series of all time (by sales) is without question also the ugliest one.



A few years ago I dated a girl that had a 10th gen Civic and then got a Jeep Cherokee. I said, "you know that Civic was really ugly." She said, I know. Apparently a lot of people aren't terribly concerned with owning/driving ugly vehicles.

zeroptzero

I had one with the 1.5 l turbo motor, it was a nice car in most respects and had amazing fuel economy. I just didn't want to own it out of warranty as my engine created more oil the more I drove it , lol. For some odd reason Honda did not engineer their engine for cold weather and short distance city driving environments - what a bunch of idiots, where did their good engineers go ?

WolfpackS2k

Retired

lowibu

I think most people on here or most any car group would say the increasingly gigantic grilles on BMWs are questionable at the least, but I remember reading that the people who actually buy the cars new approve of them, so, yeah, the vocal minority probably doesn't matter much. If it sells, it sells.