What is the general consensus on these? A friend has an 09 type R, which is an ok car, not really my cup of tea in the looks department, but a nice car none the less. I only ask as we are on the look out to replace the beater and thinking that a new car could have lots of benefits in terms of reliability and worry free motoring. Basically, Bristol Honda are knocking these out (this weekend only apparently - exclusively for anyone who wants to buy one....) for £13k brand new and seems like a lot of car for the money.

We have been looking to replace the A3 with a newer model or maybe a 3 series, but for a 2-3 year old car, we would be looking at similar money if we don't want spaceship mileage.

Seems like a pretty good deal on the face of it and just interested to see what others think to them. I expect it to be slow, but economy is pretty important and at near 50mpg and £110 VED, it ticks those boxes and residuals seem pretty good on them, so after 3 years / 30k, i would expect it be worth around 8k, so not too bad depreciation wise.

Thoughts much appreciated.

For the record, I am not a honda nut, apart from the ITR and S2k, nothing in their range really floats my boat and always envisaged the audi replacement to be a BMW, but at what cost?

regards
Phil.

 

Thought it was the incredibly-misnomered Si? Means VTi in RoW & hilarious on a 1.4 pox box.

Basically, it's a run-out edition since the 2012s are due soon.

It ought to give years of (reliable!) service.

The ergonomics are faultless. Except that there are no windows.

Very competent, but mildly depressing to drive.

 

as i suspected, thanks Nick. Is the new model due 2012? the wife wont be happy driving around in last seasons model....

looks like a non starter.....

 

The new model is prectically the same as the current one, with a few Insight/Clarity/Acura overtones.

She'll not notice. Probably.

 

she'll notice alright....

 

Nick, have you actually seen the Euro MY12 Civic?

I know quite a bit of detail but not seen any real pics yet.

Chris.

 

Not completely.

But the car's body section is quite close to the (rather dowdy) RoW 9G Civic. It would appear the light clusters are a lot closer to the Acura GT5000/HSV version. There may be a reason it's Acura-ised; the USDM version.

The deeper cut of the side windows and larger rear door window lead me to suspect that visiblity will be somewhat less dangerous than the current car.

Still a torsion beam axle it seems, so it's more of a refinement of the current car rather than anything new. Unless A-VTEC suddenly makes an appearance...

 

I've seen the MY12 USDM Civic, but the Euro model is supposedly quite different .

Chris.

 

Depends what you mean by different; aside from the Jazz rear architecture & hatch, I'd say that they new models are stylistically closer than the current ones. The EUDM & your Civic are quite merkedly different.

What is a bit disturbing is that the new RoW Civic interior plastics look truly designed to compete with Hyundai; like the Insect & some CR-Zzzz bits, they are much closer to the nasty, translucent stuff you find in Nissans & Toyotas.

The instrument panel in the new Euro does look a lot higher-quality, if pre-production examples are anything to go by.

 

Just bought it this morning. Think I got a good deal and is a 2012 model apparently. Seems good value for a new car. Fiesta money really!

Looking forward to 3 years worry free motoring.