Topic: 2007 Honda Civic

[mrthompson]

Somebody assumed your take home pay as stated was for a year.     $4k/month take home...not bad.

[Wetson]

35% tint on all side windows and 20% rear.

Thxs

The aerial is built in the back window, so you can't tint the rear window, B/C it mucks up the radio reception,

Myth.  My coupe is tinted and the antenna is on the rear window.  Reception is just fine.  No problems whatsoever

[Wolverine]

Somebody assumed your take home pay as stated was for a year.     $4k/month take home...not bad.

With 4k/year I wouldn't be able to own any car, eheheheh. Only the rent of my apartment plus ADSL+phone and energy bills would consume it all...

Actually my salary is higher than 4k/month, but income tax plus some other taxes bring it down to almost 3k/month...

Talking about the radio reception issue, how a tinted window would interfere on it?? I mean, if the radio waves can get pass a wall and get into your house, how could a thin film block it?

[safristi]

Wolvie can I sum It UP fer U...here is tha Picture...we got better beaches....Wasaga Mon....hotter biatches.... ...and Caribana Parades TOO ...and out Kars are Cheaper and Get our PEEPERS........do U have 5 at least  PhD's in Can
\ Driver Posts and  know HARPER personally......(or ARTIC!!!)

[Master Meow]

Meow, lemme get this right. 600/650 km per tank, considering that you can fill up with 39 bucks at 109 each litre, that leads to 35 litre on each fill up. So, doing 600 km with 35 litres is like 5,8L/100km, am I missing something?? If not, HELL that's a great mileage.

Yep thats premuim, I just filled up today I got 622.05 out of the last tank.

From the goverment website

Vehicle: HONDA - CIVIC Vehicle Specifications
Class:    Subcompact
Year:    2007
Engine:    1.8L
Cylinders:    4
Fuel:    Regular
Transmission, # of gears,
overdrive:    Manual 5 gears with overdrive
Seating capacity:    N/A
# of doors:    N/A
Cargo volume:    N/A
Interior volume:    N/A
Drive system:    


Fuel Consumption
City:    City 7.8 L/100 km (36 mi./gal.)
Hwy:    Hwy 5.7 L/100 km (50 mi./gal.)
Annual Fuel Cost:    $1242
Annual Fuel Use:    1380 L/yr (304 gal./yr)
Annual CO2 emissions:    3312 kg/yr


Vehicle Ranking
Overall:    13 / 1040
Within Class:    4 / 12

[1TSX]

Nice Civic. I am a fan of them, except with the MT. The AT kills the fun because of the damn torqueless engine!!

But its a very good car other wise. 

[mmret]

Meow, lemme get this right. 600/650 km per tank, considering that you can fill up with 39 bucks at 109 each litre, that leads to 35 litre on each fill up. So, doing 600 km with 35 litres is like 5,8L/100km, am I missing something?? If not, HELL that's a great mileage.

Girlfriend's Civic is getting around 6-6.5, lots of heavy traffic, on regular. She says it hasn't gone over 7, ever. Just finishing the break in, too, about 6000km on it now, so I guess it will reach its "prime" soon. Impressive.

The thing is truly gutless below 3k though.

[Wolverine]

Meow, lemme get this right. 600/650 km per tank, considering that you can fill up with 39 bucks at 109 each litre, that leads to 35 litre on each fill up. So, doing 600 km with 35 litres is like 5,8L/100km, am I missing something?? If not, HELL that's a great mileage.

Girlfriend's Civic is getting around 6-6.5, lots of heavy traffic, on regular. She says it hasn't gone over 7, ever. Just finishing the break in, too, about 6000km on it now, so I guess it will reach its "prime" soon. Impressive.

The thing is truly gutless below 3k though.

So this mileage isn't on the hwy???

Holly sh....t. We would never experience this mileage here, not even on hwy, our gasoline contains 25% of ethanol, when you find good gasoline, usually it has more than 30%...

[mmret]

Meow, lemme get this right. 600/650 km per tank, considering that you can fill up with 39 bucks at 109 each litre, that leads to 35 litre on each fill up. So, doing 600 km with 35 litres is like 5,8L/100km, am I missing something?? If not, HELL that's a great mileage.

Girlfriend's Civic is getting around 6-6.5, lots of heavy traffic, on regular. She says it hasn't gone over 7, ever. Just finishing the break in, too, about 6000km on it now, so I guess it will reach its "prime" soon. Impressive.

The thing is truly gutless below 3k though.

So this mileage isn't on the hwy???

Holly sh....t. We would never experience this mileage here, not even on hwy, our gasoline contains 25% of ethanol, when you find good gasoline, usually it has more than 30%...

Its about 75% highway, but on the other hand 75% of that highway is in 403 rush-hour traffic, meaning you never go faster than 40km/h.

[Wolverine]

Meow, lemme get this right. 600/650 km per tank, considering that you can fill up with 39 bucks at 109 each litre, that leads to 35 litre on each fill up. So, doing 600 km with 35 litres is like 5,8L/100km, am I missing something?? If not, HELL that's a great mileage.

Girlfriend's Civic is getting around 6-6.5, lots of heavy traffic, on regular. She says it hasn't gone over 7, ever. Just finishing the break in, too, about 6000km on it now, so I guess it will reach its "prime" soon. Impressive.

The thing is truly gutless below 3k though.

So this mileage isn't on the hwy???

Holly sh....t. We would never experience this mileage here, not even on hwy, our gasoline contains 25% of ethanol, when you find good gasoline, usually it has more than 30%...

Its about 75% highway, but on the other hand 75% of that highway is in 403 rush-hour traffic, meaning you never go faster than 40km/h.

Anyway, that's pretty impressive. From what I heard from 07 Civic owners on HondaClub Brazil, they don't get more than 7L/100KM on the hwy. Now with the flex engine it does even less than that, something around 8/100 with gas.

[mmret]

Meow, lemme get this right. 600/650 km per tank, considering that you can fill up with 39 bucks at 109 each litre, that leads to 35 litre on each fill up. So, doing 600 km with 35 litres is like 5,8L/100km, am I missing something?? If not, HELL that's a great mileage.

Girlfriend's Civic is getting around 6-6.5, lots of heavy traffic, on regular. She says it hasn't gone over 7, ever. Just finishing the break in, too, about 6000km on it now, so I guess it will reach its "prime" soon. Impressive.

The thing is truly gutless below 3k though.

So this mileage isn't on the hwy???

Holly sh....t. We would never experience this mileage here, not even on hwy, our gasoline contains 25% of ethanol, when you find good gasoline, usually it has more than 30%...

Its about 75% highway, but on the other hand 75% of that highway is in 403 rush-hour traffic, meaning you never go faster than 40km/h.

Anyway, that's pretty impressive. From what I heard from 07 Civic owners on HondaClub Brazil, they don't get more than 7L/100KM on the hwy. Now with the flex engine it does even less than that, something around 8/100 with gas.

WTF? I got 7L on the TSX, cruising at 120-125, with some hilly bits, and a few visits into VTEC land.

Didn't know ethanol was so bad.

[Wolverine]

A felxfuel engine on ethanol has better performance than on gas, but the engine consumes around 30% more fuel when rolling on ethanol. That happens because ethanol needs higher compression ratio, but you can't rise it too much because it would cause detonation when gasoline is used. It's also proved that the same engine, capable of rolling with gasoline, when transformed into a flexfuel engines consumes more gsaoline. In example, if a car equiped with a flexfuel engine is capable of doing 10L/100km with gas it will do around 14L/100km when using ethanol.

[1TSX]

A felxfuel engine on ethanol has better performance than on gas, but the engine consumes around 30% more fuel when rolling on ethanol. That happens because ethanol needs higher compression ratio, but you can't rise it too much because it would cause detonation when gasoline is used. It's also proved that the same engine, capable of rolling with gasoline, when transformed into a flexfuel engines consumes more gsaoline. In example, if a car equiped with a flexfuel engine is capable of doing 10L/100km with gas it will do around 14L/100km when using ethanol.

  Wow. But I guess your burning less fossil fuels, which is a good thing.

[Wolverine]

A felxfuel engine on ethanol has better performance than on gas, but the engine consumes around 30% more fuel when rolling on ethanol. That happens because ethanol needs higher compression ratio, but you can't rise it too much because it would cause detonation when gasoline is used. It's also proved that the same engine, capable of rolling with gasoline, when transformed into a flexfuel engines consumes more gasoline. In example, if a car equipped with a flexfuel engine is capable of doing 10L/100km with gas it will do around 14L/100km when using ethanol.

  Wow. But I guess your burning less fossil fuels, which is a good thing.

Of course it is, plus ethanol is renewable and way cheaper than gas. That's why almost all cars sold here have a flexfuel engine available, some of them have only flexfuel engines, as the Civic. But, there's always a but, most engines are old gasoline engines with higher compression ratio, few automaker make a good transformation of the engine, Ford did an exceptional job on its 1.6L Zetec Rocam engine, they enhanced the whole engine to use ethanol, used a higher compression ratio with detonation sensors on each cylinder to prevent detonation when using gasoline and a lot more. Also Honda and Toyota did a great job transforming their i-VTec and VVT-I into a flexfuel engine.

[safristi]

"ethanol is renewable and WAY MORE CHEAPER THAN GAS".........wotcha been drinkin
compadre...CaprianHO's..non stop...................eh eh eh eh ah ah ah .... once U deduct the Government Subsidies and Tax relief...I have a BRIDGE in MINNESOTA ta SELL YA.....

[gotak]

Nice choice. Girlfriend recently bought a 07 Civic LX. Nice little car, even nicer fuel economy.

Nice the fancy one.

I'm getting around 600-650 Clicks a tank around town $39 to fil at 109

I'm pleased with mine, the 08 DX-G, now adds cruise, which is nice. but I rarely drive up and down the highway e-nuff for me to miss that.

Took me while to get use to the digtal dash, I was always watching the clock and could never keep it steady but now 4,500 that not issue.

I've learn quickly how to not make the Civic pause. B/C sometimes if you come up to a corner quickly it pauses for brief moment less than a second. while it works out what to do next.

My only complaint was I found a little pricey.

Thanks for the kind words everyone.

What do you mean by pause?

[mrthompson]

A delay in throttle response?