Comments by "BeyerT1" (@derbigpr500) on "Honda Civic video review - Auto Express" video.

  1. @Oggoel If you want your 1.8 v-tec to achieve 6,7 l/100 km fuel consumption that it has on paper, you have to drive it EXTREMELY carefully, shift when it tells you to shift up, at under 3000 rpm, and if you do that, you will get nowhere because the engine has absolutely no power under 4500 rpm, and under that it feels like you're driving a car that has 70-80 hp. The point is, unless you drive 1.8 v-tec completely slowly, shifting at 2500 rpm, you WON'T achieve anything under 8,5 l/100km.
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  2. @Oggoel You cant just look at how much mpg some car has on paper, you have to look at how you need to drive that car in order to achieve that mpg. I can drive a 300hp car so that it will achieve 6l/100km, but I will go slower that way than when driving a car with 100hp normally. 1.8 v-tec is a inefficient engine that consumes way too much fuel for the performance it gives. Same goes for 2.0 v-tec with 156hp and 2.4 v-tec with 201hp. They all feel less powerful than on paper and waste fuel.
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  3. @Oggoel When I test drove the Civic, I drove it for about 15 kilometers, on a very well known road to me, , about 3 km's in city and about 12 km's outside, about half of those 12 km's is a road full of corners 3. /4. gear, 60-80 km/h, and half is opened road 100-110 km/h. I didnt push it hard, drove with traffic, shifting at about 4000 rpm, and car had over 9 l/100km at the end of test. Same route, Golf VI 1,4 TSI 122 hp, around 7 l. Astra 1.4t 140hp under 8l too. And both felt more powerful.
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  4. @Oggoel Funny how you look at things so blindly. First of all, 1.8 v-tec achieves same MPG as 1.4 TSI only on paper, in real world, no. Also, 1,4 TSI has much more torque, and is actually faster in any acceleration test and it feels more powerful when you drive it. Its also much smoother, quieter, and it also revs freely to almost 7000 rpm if you want to. If you drive the 1.8 v-tec normally, it will consume MUCH more fuel than 1.4 TSI. I test drove both, I know.
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  5. Honda needs to ditch the V-tec engine if they want to compete with the germans, in other words golf, focus and astra. V-tec engines are weak in every day use, inefficient, noisy, consume lots of fuel...its basically the technology that died out. Nobody wants an engine that needs to be revved to 6000 rpm to get any power. They need to make some small turbocharged engines.
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