rev up your engines
today I'm gonna talk about why Honda Civics have been such popular cars the
Honda is pretty much a typical classic Japanese corporation they started by
making something then they started perfecting to perfecting the kind of a
perfectionist culture but hey if you're buying one of those cars it's a good
thing take the original Honda sold in the United States when I was a kid one
of our customers and my father's Texaco gas station had won it put up a whopping
31 horsepower and it was a tiny car with the two cylinder air-cooled motorcycle
engines stuck inside it behind us being a classic Japanese corporation evolved
their cars 31 horsepower not old one in a new 2020 Civic type-r they put out 310
horsepower fascinating that's exactly 10 times as much as the original don't they
planned it that way now this particular one is a 14-year old plane Honda Civic
4-door and what are the Honda's known for their engines
this one's got a 1.8 liter four-cylinder engine puts on 140 horsepower plenty of
power for a little car like this but this one gets 36 miles a gallon on the
highway now yet goes down in the city this customers getting about 27 miles a
gallon in town thirty-six and an hour for car that's 14 years olds decent gas
mileage especially when you consider how fast these things are Thank You Sundari
now it's got 132 thousand miles on it too
they've always have now I set up they got a big old tach in the middle and
then you go up to the top there's a speedometer you can easily see all the
gauges and it's set up rather neatly and for a small car seats in the front
aren't bad there's a reasonable amount of space in the back too it's not tiny
like my Celicas after all it is a four-door car and sure this one's got a
few bashes then it's been through a few wars but it still rolls down a road
quite well but for a small car we've got a pretty deep trunk they have a tendency
to perfect things over years they've been working 90 Civics a long time
and they've really pretty much perfected the small transportation car much along
the lines of the Carola only the civics are much faster
they handle a lot better that's why a lot of those kids racer racers and put
those little hurting mufflers on the back cuz they are quick and a handle
quite well not sure two basic car it's only got drum brakes on the back and
these cheesy honda hubcaps that are breaking but hey it's not a race car if
you want a pony up for a new Civic type-r yeah you're gonna get four-wheel
disc those things are set up a racing they are fantastic vehicles but the
normal Civic Hey it's like the perfect transportation car
like I said the Corollas yeah they're quite a bit slower than these things our
Honda was rated as the top manufacturer for engines they had the least amount of
engine related problems of any manufacturer and Toyota was number two
so they do make excellent engines which not only have power but they can run a
long time I mean this one's only got one hundred and thirty six thousand miles on
it I've seen them with three hundred and fifty and they were still running pretty
good and they sure are a lot better-looking in a you still if you
check out the original Honda's man they were ugly little boxy cars these
things are pretty sleek now I personally like them with standard transmissions
cuz they're even faster but this one has an automatic my customer here has never
got a problem with the transmission I've had many customers with the Civic's with
automatic transmissions and I haven't seen any real failures in them now if
you're talking about Honda accords a bigger engine their bigger cars yeah
they're notorious for hitting automatic transmission problems but the Civic's
know they're a smaller lighter car like I always say Honda really it's great
making smaller cars bigger cars and trucks it's not really there for chase
small cars is what Honda really has perfected no I've never personally owned
a Honda other than a Honda cb750 ages ago that was the screaming
motorcycle but my customers with Honda Civics are all extremely happy with
the cars whether they bought a brand-new and drover for 20 years or some of them
bought beat-up looking ones for 500 bucks and drop them for five or ten
years with not having to spend too much money fixing them as long as they are
willing to live with the bashes Bodywork is never cheap if you want to do
it right so now you know a little bit more about Honda Civics
now why if you're looking for are a fast reliable good gas mileage car
ah you might think about getting a Honda Civic
even an old used one can still have tons of life left in it, so if you never want
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