Honda civic 20016 LX, Manual. What happends if you engineer designed a product not a car?
I had high expectation when I started to drive my Accord 2002. After all Honda has a reputation. Civic is one the cars earned this reputation. It was 1991 may be early 92 when I saw 3 door civic for a first time. I did not lived under the rock, just in different country. This car looked slick, fast and practical. Over the time I actually drove one with 1.6 VITEC in 1999 and in a way it was a revelation. How such small engine can be so fun and how it different from stable, linear and boring Opels and Renaults . When I test drove 2014 and 2015 Civics 1.8 it was nothing to write home about. Rumor mill was filled with new civic news. It should be sharp, it should be best. Like I used to be! So I waited. One day I drove one. In August 2016, I came for an oil change and rather unpleasant conversation with Halton Honda (Burlington ON) service department. They screwed up my brakes, failed to deliver part in 4 months and on top of that simple off the shelf seal fell into “we don’...