Honda CR80R

Advantages: Engine. Refinement. Comfort. Paintwork.
Disadvantages: Price. Styling. Boot. Interior.

...TITLE EXPLANATION Anyone remotely interested in cars cannot failed to have seen Honda's strap-line for their new Accord; "if it is difficult……it is worth doing", supposedly a quote from Mr Honda himself. I am not quite sure as to what this refers; I rather think that the difficulty lay in developing an improved car from the already very good previous one! I feel it only fair to pre-empt this review by saying that this particular model is the exact replacement for my own car - the Honda Accord 2.2 i-CTDi Executive. Effectively this is a new car, launched, in the UK, at the Company Car in Action event which my wife and I attended a couple of months ago. WHAT IS IT? The Accord is a very long standing and well known model in Honda's line-up. Other model names; Carina, Cavalier, Cortina, Xantia, 80, 626 now Vectra even, have come... Read review

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Advantages: Great Transmission. Smooth Engine. Low Running Costs. Hugely Spacious Interior. Build Quality.
Disadvantages: Messy Dashboard Styling. Uninspiring Exterior Styling.

...an Automatic Peugeot 205, a 1.6 which whilst having a reasonable turn of speed still drunk fuel at 23mpg! I once had a 2.5 litre V6 Cavalier, again an Automatic, on average, over 18,000 miles, that very quick, car covered 28 miles on every gallon of fuel! Small automatics drink fuel! They USED to! We covered 60 miles in this particular Honda Jazz, on a brilliant mixture of just about every type of road to be found in the south east of England. Firstly, we drove through heavy traffic in South West London, winding up in Kingston upon Thames. Then we drove down to leafy Dorking to see Polesden Lacy, that being on fast flowing A roads, followed by narrow country lanes. From here we returned to Chiswick by making a fast clockwise M25 run, cruising at between 80 and 85mph, just as I would have done in my own diesel Accord. At no time... Read review

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Advantages: Fresh, economical, it's a Honda with legendary reliability!
Disadvantages: Rear window, motorway road noise, 'plasticky' body parts

...Brand new Civic 2007, correct as of 05/08/2007 My gard... a Honda Civic not aimed at the old fogeys of middle class England? This is a car worth checking out. As a test I actually took this car and showed it to a few senior citizens who themselves own Hondas, mainly the Honda “mid-life crisis” 4x4 CR-V. I am happy to report that after 3 hours of speculating and afternoon napping, they did not like it at all. That, therefore, means that this car is officially cool. I got this car because the Type-R was way more expensive, was in a higher insurance group and costed more to pay tax for to be on the road. The car I have here is the 5 door 1.8l i-VTEC ES version, not the SE. Let’s face it, although SE costs around £1000 less, it has much less in features and doesn’t have the glass roof! SE doesn’t have cruise control as standard... Read review

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