blazerdude20 Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Eh, I'm really not digging it. Honda seems to try really hard to make the designs unique. http://m.leftlanenews.com/2016-honda-civic-images-leaked-2-88244.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pioneer Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Front looks like the old fusion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmc523 Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Front looks like the old fusion. I was thinking the same thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blazerdude20 Posted April 20, 2015 Author Share Posted April 20, 2015 Front looks like the old fusion. It does a bit with that top bar on the grille. The front, while not great, is passable to me. The rear and the greenhouse is weird. Looks like they shrunk down the Crosstour design. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-S Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 I don't like it.........at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grbeck Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 It will be interesting to see the final production car. The current Civic was even panned by factions within the company upon its release, according to insiders. Honda can't afford to phone this one in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
probowler Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Not too bad, looks like a cheap, Civic-type vehicle. The rear kinda reminds me of an Acura. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
630land Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 (edited) 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. Edited April 21, 2015 by 630land 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blazerdude20 Posted April 22, 2015 Author Share Posted April 22, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
630land Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 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". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grbeck Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 (edited) 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). Edited April 27, 2015 by grbeck 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twintornados Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Filed under "Y" for YAWN..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
630land Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Meant to say Pintos, but Escorts did have NVH issues still in later years. But the rear of the 2016 Civic has an overdone chrome strip, too. Like the '15 CR-V, looks like a cheap aftermarket kit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-150 Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzymoomoo Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Yup. Those Mazda Escorts ran forever. If the bodies didn't rust out 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silvrsvt Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silvrsvt Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Yup. Those Mazda Escorts ran forever. The Mazda Escort didn't come till 1991...it was the Erika, which was a Ford design prior to that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
630land Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzymoomoo Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 (edited) My fiancé drove an 89 tracer for years until a deer did it in around 2006. Her parents bought the car new and it served them well. She loved the 5 speed in it, waaaaaaay more than the 5 speed in her G5. Edited April 30, 2015 by fuzzymoomoo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGR Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 Filed under "Y" for YAWN.....Yawn-duh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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