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Civic sales used to be 'appointment only', now they have huge 'incentives' to clear 'em out and try to overtake Corolla, which also has discounts.

Honda relies on their SUV's and loaded Accords for profits. Also, low Civic ad prices are used for 'bait and switch'.

 

Dumped a Civic since it had low headroom and couldn't see out front as well, srunched down and sore back. Days of 'the only good compacts are Honda/Toyota' are history.

 

The '16 looks like a modified Gen 9 with bigger tailights/trunk.

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Civic sales used to be 'appointment only', now they have huge 'incentives' to clear 'em out and try to overtake Corolla, which also has discounts.

Honda relies on their SUV's and loaded Accords for profits. Also, low Civic ad prices are used for 'bait and switch'.

 

Dumped a Civic since it had low headroom and couldn't see out front as well, srunched down and sore back. Days of 'the only good compacts are Honda/Toyota' are history.

 

The '16 looks like a modified Gen 9 with bigger tailights/trunk.

I too had a Civic, a 2014, and it was horrible. I got sucked in by low lease payments and the "rock solid reliability" of a Honda. I should have sprung for the Accord as it wasn't much more. Ended up eating the resale in the shorts and buying a Focus.

 

The Civic used to be the shining beacon of compact cars but it has been largely ignored for the better part of a decade. Meanwhile Ford, Chevrolet, and Hyundai have really stepped it up.

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Civic roof is low, and if you want leather seats, you have to get an EX-L with the room-sucking sun roof. Go to Focus fan sites, and there are Gen 1's with 200K miles+, so these cars are not Pintos or Escorts. Friend was like 'you traded a Honda for a Ford why!?', and I said "it's not the 80s".

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Civic roof is low, and if you want leather seats, you have to get an EX-L with the room-sucking sun roof. Go to Focus fan sites, and there are Gen 1's with 200K miles+, so these cars are not Pintos or Escorts. Friend was like 'you traded a Honda for a Ford why!?', and I said "it's not the 80s".

The Escorts were reliable, once Ford got the bugs worked out of them (around 1984). Family members and friends drove mid-1980s Escorts and had no problem getting well over 120,000 miles out of them (which was good for those days).

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The Escorts were reliable, once Ford got the bugs worked out of them (around 1984). Family members and friends drove mid-1980s Escorts and had no problem getting well over 120,000 miles out of them (which was good for those days).

Yup. Those Mazda Escorts ran forever.

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The Escorts were reliable, once Ford got the bugs worked out of them (around 1984). Family members and friends drove mid-1980s Escorts and had no problem getting well over 120,000 miles out of them (which was good for those days).

 

The problem with pre-Mazda models is the rear shock towers rotted out horribly..my 86 Escort GT had this problem (I poked a screw driver through the rot) but it was still on the road (in very sorry shape) in 1998 with well over 200K on it!

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The 'Erika' Scorts had character, just too many little things breaking. I had an '86 E-GT and loved it, when it wasn't getting something fixed.

Then had a '91 Tracer LTS, and leased it for 3 yrs. Should have kept it. It was on the road until 2004, per CARFAX.

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