...and a half years and 95,000 miles of motoring would tell me that this is not going to be a cheap car to run. Indeed my car has cost considerably more in both servicing and consumable parts than my previous V6 petrol engine Vauxhall Omega.
In bald cost terms the clever statisticians at What Car magazine tell us that a comparable BMW 320d SE will cost you 50.7 pence per mile, a Mondeo 2.0 TDi Titanium X 55.7 p, whilst this new Honda is going to cost you a whopping 65 pence for each mile you travel in it.
The new Accord i-DTEC EX falls into a very reasonable group 11 (of 20) Insurance.
The 148g/kg CO2 figure is a retrograde step on the earlier cars' 143. Relative to other similar cars on sale though, any figure below 150 has to be regarded as good - only BMW's remarkable 2.0 diesel at 128 improves to any substantial degree on this score...
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...of a very thorough 60 mile test drive last week. On arriving at Honda Chiswick, handing over my Accord for a 50,000 mile service, the service receptionist asked me if I would like a manual or automatic courtesy car. Knowing that the fleet of manual Jazz courtesy cars are bottom of the range 1.2 litre cars, without air conditioning, I opted to take the 1.4 automatic.
At this point I should say that, having driven many different ones over the last twenty years, I have never been a fan of small automatics. My sole reason for choosing this car was that we wanted to visit a country house some thirty miles away, and prefer the comfort of an air conditioned car! Very conveniently, due to that fact, we had the camera with us, enabling me to take the pictures you see below. It is unusual that I actually manage to photograph the actual car that I am...
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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...
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