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My favorite car is my 2009 Civic. How can a commuter car be loved? Well, I drive 55 miles one way to work (110 total a day). My car is a workhorse, and it quietly does it’s job. It has 140,000 miles on it, and never once had a major issue. The CEL has never come on. Granted, I’ve maintained the car religiously. Which brings me to the other reason I love the car. Performing maintenance on the car is a joy. I guess I like Honda’s style of engineering. Everything is logical and well designed. My car has also been in 2 major accidents, and still runs fine. One accident involved a tractor trailer… Anyway, I guess I love my car because it doesn’t complain and just works flawlessly. Next time I’ll buy a more exciting Honda, like the Civic Type R that’s coming out, which could be loved for reliability and being fun.
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Well, “exciting” and “Honda” are hard to use in the same sentence.
If type R’s are actually fast at all, try to find out who drove it before. I don;t know if it is still a trend but kids tend to get ahold of Hondas and think they are in a race car (thanks, fast and furious movies)I have a 2008 Honda Civic and my experience pretty much mirrors yours. I had 1 major issue at 160k miles where the engine blocked cracked but it was covered by an extended warranty by Honda due to a known issue, so it didn’t cost me a penny.
My first CEL was at about 180k miles for an EGR valve sticking and at 185k miles right now, I have an issue where the AC doen’t want to turn on intermittently that I’m looking at.
But that’s it for the entire time I’ve owned this car so I can’t really complain.
Summer_Night: The Civic Type R set the all-time fastest lap around the Nürburgring for a FWD car. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9G7N0_M9Rc
Most Hondas are pretty practical and not very exciting, but I hope that they start making more cars like this in the near future.twiggy02919: I’m hoping to get 300,000 miles out of my car. It’s really a champ.
[quote=”matthewross1987″ post=138933]My favorite car is my 2009 Civic. How can a commuter car be loved? Well, I drive 55 miles one way to work (110 total a day). My car is a workhorse, and it quietly does it’s job. It has 140,000 miles on it, and never once had a major issue. The CEL has never come on. Granted, I’ve maintained the car religiously. Which brings me to the other reason I love the car. Performing maintenance on the car is a joy. I guess I like Honda’s style of engineering. Everything is logical and well designed. My car has also been in 2 major accidents, and still runs fine. One accident involved a tractor trailer… Anyway, I guess I love my car because it doesn’t complain and just works flawlessly. Next time I’ll buy a more exciting Honda, like the Civic Type R that’s coming out, which could be loved for reliability and being fun.[/quote]
I own a 2005 Civic, 186k miles in it. The only problems I have with my car is with suspension, but I can understand because of the roads in this country (Puerto Rico). I used to race with it but not anymore, still Not a single problem with the engine. I’m a happy Honda owner.
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