Honda for my 2nd car advice

[myfirstcar1]

Hi guys,

wanted to ask your thoughts, my first ever car was a Honda Jazz 2009 - 1.4L manual petrol, its been good to me but I' d like to have something a little more enjoyable to drive so I've up'd my budget to max £10k looking for the following,

Honda Civic , under £90k miles ,
Automatic
Petrol
ideally computer with blue tooth , DAB (not CD player)
heated seats
1.8L (i've heard these are better then the 1.4L

just wondered if you had any recommendations which year , model not cat S/N ) etc to go for

thanks

[Cabrony]

Leftfield choice... What about a CRZ unless you need the extra room?

[myfirstcar1]

thanks for the reply, hhmmm it looks good but probably not for me, looking to stick to petrol for now (avoiding diesel)

[Cabrony]

CRZ's are petrol/electric hybrid (you might be thinking of the CRV?). £20 tax, 40+ mpg and probably very little difference in performance vs a 1.8 civic

[thatdude]

hello,

I have a 1.8 civic with the 5 speed auto transmission. It;s a 2016 model. It's a nice drive - handles ok (prefers to go into understeering when pushed hard, rather than oversteer as I encountered with my previous 2005 1.6 civic!). It is quite good on fuel - a motorway run cruising can return around 45 mpg, a little less through winter and a little higher on very warm days. I find it very comfortable, and ergonomically very good with where everyhting is layed out. I have the honda infotainment system thing - it's not the bst, but I dont find it as disasterous as some media reports suggest.

The engine is very nice - smooth, with good throttle calibration for tiny inputs allowing for very smooth and economical driving. The transmission itself is very long-geared (for fuel efficiency) which takes away some of the performance (I wish it had a 6-speed with closer ratios, especially 1-2-3-4), but it is nice and smooth but you can feel the shifts nicely, giving you feedback on whats going on. There are "paddle" shift bottons on the wheel, and you can manually over-ride at any time using these bittons alone, and then if you do not make further gear shift requests it will after a certain time go back to shifting automatically. There is a "sport" mode for the gearbox, which when you manually select a gear will then take up a manual mode. this is quite good for spirited driving, but one of the issues I find is the gearbox will go to a coast-mode robbing you of engine-braking.

The car has plenty of room inside, and the boot is very big. The rear seats can be folded up to give a lot of side-loading cargo space (the rear doors open almost 90 degrees).

Servicing is quite simple, although the under-tray might give a fight in order to get it off.

I like it, it's not a car to set ones soul on fire but it's a comfortable and pleasent place to be on any drive, and a very practical car as well.