Decent MPG Very Roomy for a small car Slick shifter with a great clutch

Not as reliable as you may think Sluggish engine, no power <3,000RPM Takes forever to warm up in the cold Weak A/C

This car is the roomiest small coupe I've ever been in. Seats are comfortable and everything is laid out very well. This car has a great heater but it's A/C is pretty weak. My main complaint about the interior is the sunroof, it cuts of way too much headroom. This car has a weak, but decent engine. Honda's VTEC engines are very good although they completely overstate their MPG. Don't get me wrong but I usually averaged 30 MPG no matter where I was driving and the sticker's rating was much higher. This car has no real power below 3,000 RPM, oh wait its a Honda. I forgot Honda doesn't understand the concept of torque. The manual shifter on this car is the best I've ever had in my hands. I mean this is a slick shifter with a REALLY NICE clutch, I'd say this is an ideal car for someone to learn how to drive a stickshift. Reliability is probably the biggest thing that sold me on the car. Most people will religiously tell you that Honda sets all the standards for reliability, etc. Personally between my Civic and many other Honda's I've seen, they have no better reliability than any other run of the mill car you can buy. I had absolutely NO problems with this car before 10,000 miles but after that my car was in the shop every other week for something or another.

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Pretty good acceleration. It can almost keep with with a 92 prelude of my friends. good mpg. pretty good room. 16 valve engine Ac power door lock windows

wish it was faster to much body roll all hondas get rust on the rear wells of the car. Any one with a honda can agree with me on that i think?

Well lets put it its no Si. Its my first car and quite frankly im really happy about it. When i was looking for a car i was looking for a 92 to 95 honda civic coupe black. But being me not having lots of money had to limit myself on what i could buy so i was driving my brothers 2000 a/t civic to get oil change and i found my car. Day later i bought it. Im 16 and i have put A tenzo short ram intake, N-1 style 4 inch tip with 3 inch piping muffler. The intake give a cool tunnling sound. The car to this day has 108012 miles not to bad for a 95 i have to say. The car needed new brakes which im still running on (still work).(OK!) there was a little hole in the exhaust piping but i fixed that. Im getting new rims soon. I also got a alpine deck and xtant amp and two rockford fosfogate punch z which im selling for 400 with a compition box. % months old. Back to the car over all car its great. The engine in the Lx is a 1.5lt 4 16 valve sohc(single over head cam for all ya dummies)

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Nice pick up I like my purple dashboard Roomy

I love this car!! I was thinking about buying so many others... the VW Jetta was one we put a down payment on, but then I heard that it had so many problems.. My Honda never has any problems. Even though I've only had it for about 3 months, it's been a great car & I love it!

Handling is fair. nice interior good for family of 4

Engine

For a woman(my wife), its great to putt around in. For all the reviews below mine saying they like it for the speed, lets get serious. The car is weak, but great on gas. I even installed a computer chip to help it get out of its own way when loaded down with passengers and that didn't do much for it. A friend told me I should put a high-performance muffler on it(I know them as "Fartcan Mufflers")I just laughed at him. It gets my family from point A to B, but it definitely is a car for a slower paced person, or one of these people that think you get 30 horsepower gains by adding the letters "SI" on your bumper, or a NOS sticker on the window(Referring to the tuner crowd) This is a true story> I was talking to a guy at Hess Gas station that drove up in a Civic with 324 extra gauges mounted to his dash, a 15 inch exhaust tip, 50 series tires(just more weight for a 4 cylinder), and all the racing you can imagine. I happened to be in my 03 Mustang GT filling up. He began to tell me that he has so much fun with Corvettes and Cobras. He said he could slowly leave either one of these cars behind. Guess he never thought that I would say anything back to him because I don't look like a racer. I asked him if he was another one of those brainwashed people that thought a tuner with gauges would beat anything? He then got a little offensive, but never said anything too serious. I nicely invited him out onto a 1/4 mile strip that was only right around the corner and told him I would give him a five car head start. He didn't have time, how convenient!! If you drive a civic, congratulations on owning a great compact with great safety features for a family. However, you don't own a race car.

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First Non-american car I have owned. Can't really think of a comparison

-Fun to Drive, -Fantastic ergonomic in regard to shifter and driver position. -Best seats I have ever had in a vehicle, very good lateral motion stability. -unique, down to business styling -good antitheft -excellent road handling, suspension is perfect, the springs could have a higher spring rate but on the fair side Honda does have to please the mass.

-As stated in my summary.

I have now owned a handful of honda's, including an 87 prelude, an 1992 Acura Integra 4 door, a 98 Accord Coupe, and now the 02' civic SIR. All except the SIR performed to the specifications provided by Honda. First, honda claims a 0 - 60 time of 8 seconds, I tested this claim using a stop watch and doing an average of 5 runs I had a results of 9.6 seconds, best time 9.4. Only after installing an AEM cold air intake, a DC sport 4 - 1 header, replacing the 1.25 dia. mid pipe with a 2.25 dia mid pipe (all other exhaust pipes on the vehicle the car are 2.25 dia. stock wich is strange why they choose to restrict it at the mid pipe), a spoon N1 axle back muffler was I able to achieve an average of just slightly under 8 sec 0-60. Also my car, no matter how I drive it, cannot pull of the fuel efficiency numbers that Honda posts on their website, they claim 7Litres/100km highway and 9litres/100km city, I have made many attemps and best ever was 10.1Litres/100km on a fairly even mix of highway and city driving. My Accord, Prelude, and Integra easily hit the numbers posted. On a 60Litre tank, which would fill to 57litres max would consistantly give over 680km on my Accord Coupe, surprising since it is a heavier (about 300lbs), and larger vehicle. My third complaint with the car is the body material and paint, by far the worst I have ever had. The body panel are made with an extremely thin gauge metal, very susceptible to dents. The paint, wich I would guess to be a one coat application after primer chips extremely easily. Also within the first 9000km the vehicle had to be taken to the dealership to have the gas tank lid actuator assembly fixed, first time there was a problem I was left at a gas station for hours trying to figure out how to open the gas tank lid non-destructively until I was able to go through a access panel in the trunk. I was pissed and embarassed. Whoever reads this, I would like them to understand that I not about bashing the vehicle, but for the money (about 28k deal done with warranty) it is not worth it.

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airbag light problems.....shocks had to be replaced, heating vent for feet is awfull, steering wheel is off centered, we never hit anything..seatbelts rarely go back to the unused position. never had a car that had to go IN so many times.

nothing

1) GREAT on gas 2) Excellent winter driving even with all season tires ( I live where a normal winter day has anywhere from 3 to 6 feet of snow)

Only two problems but I woulden't call them weaknesses: 1) Transmission synchronizer had to be replaced. 2) Recall on front struts. Other then that absolutely great car.

One word for this car PERFECTION. This car handles with ease and agility. I have nothing but great things to say. This was the first manual transmission vehicle I have ever driven and learning with the Civic was great---it basically drives itself, so for all you newbies this is the car to learn on. We hit a major snow storm last winter with so much snow that it was coming over the hood of the car(not exaggerating). We had to stop every 4 feet to clear the headlights and when you exited the car the snow was at knee level. Every time we stopped that little Civic kept going, never got stuck once---it's a little bull dozer!!! Matter of fact we were the only vehicle that was not in the ditch or stuck from stopping to clear the headlights (we cleared the way for many behind us). I would even take the Civic to work instead of the 4x4 truck in the winter months.

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First car of this size.

--interior room(i'm 6'3 and could wear a helmet in there without being cramped. --reliability --resale value --enough power for pretty-much anybody --enough mods to satisfy the rest of you --you can order after-market parts to replace anything you break, and still save money over stock. --chicks like to be near them.

--criminals like to be inside them. --the engine is so efficient that it hardly makes enough heat to keep me warm while driving in -30'c or colder weather. --paint quality --rear-speaker mount design make any speaker installed there sound like crap. --oil filter is an absolute pain to reach.

It's a honda. It's indestructable. the engine should hate me, but just takes my abuse. The ecu hates me because I turbocharged it, but I can still drive the car 1000's of kms a day on boost without stoping for gas every hour. it cost me about $70 to drive 1100 km in one day, all the while passing on boost 3 vehicles at a time on the two-lane pavement, and cycling the ecu power after the pass(remember, the ecu hates boost). GET THE FMU AND MAP SENSOR-BYPASS-CHECK-VALVE ASSEMBLY FOR UNNATURALLY ASPIRATING THIS ENGINE. I bought the car in '98 and the paint has always been flakey and easy to chip. around the rear windows and the licence plate shroud, it appears to be pulling off, but hasn't actually changed since I bought the car. I think it's a fluke, but my e7k transmission has been making a lot of grinding noise in 1st and second gears for the last couple of years, progressively getting worse, especially at higher rpm and in neutral. I got another one, but haven't installed it yet. parts for this car are very hard to come by unless you live near a very large city. the autowreckers in my area won't buy new hondas because they are afraid that the cars will sit and loose money. I'll buy the next wrecked car I find at the insurance auction just so I can replace my windshield washer resevoir and steering rack. the rack has something worn on the passenger side because that wheel turns a little when it's jacked-up, and suffers from a hardcore bump-steer and crack-following problem due to this. I had te MAP sensor fail on the first winter(-28'C daytime high, blowing snow), which caused the car to run rich all the way home from work one day stalling and such when idling. the sensor was replaced under warranty(there was a recall on that prblem they told me). funny thing about that was that a co-worker who drove a year-newer 4-door civic had the same problem the very next day, and we carpooled to the dealership to get our cars. This car is a crime-magnet, it has been broken-into like 5 times(I lost count), and the insurance rates reflect this, so I have lost much stereo equipment. Lots of punks intheir stock SI's and foci want to race me, even if I don't make eye contact, so be prepared for attention. the chicks always have something nice to say, even when there are no mods to see except 20% smoke tint all around. all in all, if you like stupid-good reliability, gas mileage to write home about, and re-sale value like nothing else, get a civic. Especially one with double wishbones(not the 03's). the hatchback makes driving to work fun, and the naysayers always have the best looks on their faces when you take them home from work because their rides are frozen-up or broken, and they discover how much room for all their crap and mine in the car. bottom line: I'll never sell this car. if it gets written-off, I'll buy it back, and race it. If I die, I'll be buried in it. if it disappears, I'll find it. If I win the lottery, I'll buy a wrx, and give this one to my offspring and fix it up.

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-outside looks are unusual -speakers seem cheap

I really do love this car. I used to have a mustang which was a piece of crap compared to the quality of this car. I love the interior and I really like the ride it gives.

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Economical and quite dynamic 110hp engine. Capacious. Good finish.

The price as for the Polish conditions.

I just bought this new sedan. Befor this one I have had a 5 door liftback version for 5 years. I see many improvements. The new one has 1.6 liter 110hp VTEC engine which is acceptable for the high Polish gas prices (3,4USD per gallon). For now it seems to be more quiet than my 1998 HC 5d liftback 1.4iS. Interior is very pleasent. Beige coulour add more space which is enough for 2+2 family car. The trunk is very roomy and in usable shape. The instruments panel and rear lights looks much better after 2003 face lifting.

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