Soon, I’ll be testing the 2.0S & Type-R. Hopefully, they will do better…

any one face this problem?
did you fix it?
does the Honda service guy tell you the root cause of the noise?

im contemplating between a honda city v-tec and a civic 1.8..would love to get the civic 2.0 but my finances do not allow me too..:) I am very very settled on a civic 1.8 but my main concern now is the interior..- beige towel cloth interior and that sucks badly !!..was just wondering if any of the existing 1.8 civic owners changed the interior to black leather seats? and how does it look like im worried that it might come out funny…thnx guys !.

I too have driven Both 1.8 & 20 over subsequent days for several hours through a mixture of roads and conditions. I have to disagree with you about the steering feel. bear in mind I too like heavy steering (my daily drive is a waja n a rwd car without PAS)

The 1.8 has a lighter and more disconected steering feel in comparison to the 2.0. In the 1.8 Initial feel through the steering is lite and it gets lighter and more vague as lock is added.

In the 2.0 the weight is more consistent and less vaugue. Giving more confidence to ” attack the corners “.

But in terms of steering feed back and steering weight my 2005 Waja has better steering feel. Also on Goodyear NCT5

The noise in the cabin are mostly from the tyres. Those NCT5 are not rated as quite tyres

Also the brakes are over servoed or over assistated. This may be because your average drivers is not expected to press the pedal hard enough to slow down .

On the engine side, Honda makes AWESOME engines. Nuff said

Overall I’d take the 2.0 over the 1.8.

And yeah the towel cloth is horrible.

Honda Civic Hatchback advertisement in UK with making of clips. Use Quicktime to view. Enjoy!

fabric a bit off, overall… a nice car to own
maybe better with 2.0, dont really do the
“spirited-drive”, just cruising around my
housing area, max 40KMH, abit heavy tho’

I’ve not tried the 2.0’s paddle shift – but has enough opportunity with an iDSI CVT City that has 7-speed mode. The gear indicator is beside the speed/rpm meter.

During “spirited” drive with the 7-speed manual shifting mode, I drive with full attention on the road – rarely do I look at anything else. (rare like: like when you first enter this mode by pressing 7-speed mode and shifting once, just to confirm the green color “M”)

I can “feel” the ratios and shift up/down as necessary to keep the “feeling of control” all the time (for example, going into a high-speed corner, when I shift down once, its normally not enough, I’d shift down once more and everything feels “good” – and take the corner)

In summary – I use my senses to gauge the best ratios required.
At least in the City, its feels “right” (pretty comparable with M/T vehicles that I’ve driven)

Video from recent GRA drive clinic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjiLFzZSiBo

It amazing how the ABS work and I think everyone should at have ago with their ABS equipped car to have atleast a feel on how it works and not wait until there is a real emergency as it may come as a shock to certain people.

PS. Saw the SRM on the lorry in Subang yesterday. BLERGH, hate the taillights. It’s pretty much a blown up version of the savvy. Just wider, longer and maybe more shapely. Got a glimpse of orange red and yellow. All the info i could tell…and they have a small rear spoiler on the top..just a small one like those u see on satrias…

I just want to ask, why Gen.2 has this feature of kickin in a lower gear when u are not pressing the acceleration? Maybe its me, I cant really get used to it.

Oh, I am not a tester but my line of work requires me to drive customer’s car around.

When you say nothing after 4500rpm, meaning it can go higher with same results as 4500 rpm, or you actually get less torque after that?
The 2.0 version, shares the same engine with the accord, which I have managed to get 7000rpm-east west highway, climbing a hill, it can go higher…I was just afraid engine will blow up , so 6800rpm should be nothing for the civic. Maybe can try the Gua Musang-Cameron Highland road, ultra steep hill, and long straits.

for the ABS, yes, it is quite hard to kick in for Civic 8th Gen. I think it is due to the parallel VSA system. I did suspect that it is another defact until i went through a slippery hump, the ABS is very powerful and scared me at that time. (other vehicle like City, Cefiro with ABS are more sensitive to kick in during hard breaking.) Maybe you should try to turn off the VSA to let the ABS kick in more easily.. (nv tried)

mystvearn: yup, and the back felt like it was going to “buang” abit.

anyway… just an idea, and just a little disappointed
only… dont really matter

The paddle shift seems fun to me… Thanks Paul for letting us know about it.