Showing posts with label Civic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Civic. Show all posts

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Alternatives to the Altis & Civic: Part 2/5

Continuing from where we left off on the last post, we now move on to the other perennial C-segment favourite. The Honda Civic . Already in it's eight generation, the Civic FD2 is without a doubt one of Honda's most sucessful models worldwide and also the arch rival of the Corolla Altis. It's kind of like the rivalry between Barcelona and Real Madrid isn't it. Ok i got sidetracked. Sorry.

Back to the topic, like the Corolla Altis, the Civic has also been facelifted not too long ago. Being blessed with good looks from day 1 the Civic FD2 accounts for more or less 40% of local C-segment sales, this therefore is possibly the reason why there are even fewer changes for this model compared to the Corolla Altis. The most notable revisions are to the rear light clusters and front bumper and fog lights and different seat fabric pattern for the 1.8 variant which previously looked like it was taken off someones office carpet.

Alternatives to the Altis & Civic: Part 1/5

I was talking to a friend the other day who wanted to upgrade from his 4 year old Vios. When i asked him what he had in mind he replied "civic and altis". I then asked him why he did not consider the Forte, Focus Ghia and Sylphy and his replies were " korean, expensive maintenance, low resale value, ford also same, slyphy UGLY!" After a couple of weeks testing all 5 cars, he finally made his mind up on getting a used Focus.

Now if you are in a similar situation as to what car to buy, here is a super simple comparison below!