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Sedans Honda Civic 2008 Honda Civic
345 messages, Last post on Sep 04, 2009 at 5:23 PM
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Replying to: jonesbb630 (Aug 04, 2008 7:48 am) A cute little car with a cute sounding little horn (sounds like my 10 month old's toy) that's what we have. My wife and I both like the way the horn sounds.....fits the car................cute. I love everything about my new Civic. Should have driven a Civic my whole life! |
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Replying to: jonesbb630 (Aug 04, 2008 7:48 am) At least the old Accords (2002 and earlier) had multi-tone "Beep" horns. I like my current Accord's '06 "HONK." 
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My Civic is an '07. The MPG rating that year for my model and auto transmission was 41MPG. I was told that the automatics got better miles per gallon at highway speeds than the standard. On the highway I consistently get 41 to 42 MPG with the windows closed and the air conditioning on and the car loaded to the hilt weightwise (I go back and forth from WI to FL). I noticed that the 08's are rated at only 38MPG highway. I have asked a number of different salespeople in a number of different dealerships this year why that is and they told me the government just changed how they rate miles per gallon on new cars. However, I have two friends who each purchased an '08 Civic because of how I bragged about my '07 and they, in fact, only get around 35 to 36 highway. I don't (#1) understand why on earth Honda would go backwards in an achievement like the 41MPG and (#2) why that size car and smaller of both Honda and other makes do not all get the 41MPG or better. I mean if one manufacturer can do it, why can't they all???
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Replying to: nsteevo (Aug 04, 2008 5:26 pm) Best Regards, Shipo |
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Replying to: nsteevo (Aug 04, 2008 5:26 pm) A couple of things... The 2007 Civic had ratings as follows: 30/38 for the 5MT 30/40 for the 5AT The 2008 is rated: 26/34 for the 5MT 25/36 for the 5AT I'm not sure where you pulled the 41mpg and 38 mpg figures from. 
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The 41MPG is printed in large letters in the "highway" column on the widow sticker that was in the car when it arrived at the dealer.....I still have it. Same with the 38 on the 08's I've seen on the sticker in the showroom. Maybe Honda decided to print the government's numbers in the small print on the window stickers!?!
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Replying to: nsteevo (Aug 05, 2008 8:54 am) |
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Replying to: nsteevo (Aug 05, 2008 8:54 am) |
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Does the 2008 Civic have electric power steering ? I am thinking it doesn't because everyone says the steering and handling is one of its many strong points. Thank you to whoever responds.
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Replying to: johnc27 (Aug 06, 2008 7:07 pm)
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