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Agreed completely with this. I'm also single, childfree (I don't want kids), hardly carpool to begin with, and my family lives thousands of miles away. It also seems to be an unpopular opinion (from what I've seen around here, haha) in that I prefer the look of the coupe over the sedan—I love how the rear looks. It ticks all of my boxes of what I want in a next car and I'm happy they're still offering "sporty" coupes.In the videos posted of the press event Honda mentioned why the coupe was so important. Yes, the sedan has more utility, but the coupe has always been the basis of the civic's style. And people looking for something affordable, sporty driving and more sporty looking than a sedan will go to coupes. It's the whole form over function argument. I'm a single guy, no kids, and don't really care to haul friends around all the time, so for me choosing the (arguably) more stylish and sportier coupe is a no brainer for me. It's a different demographic they're appealing to. If you need utility you get the sedan, if you want aesthetic you get the coupe. It's not really a good reason to bash the coupe just because it lacks the utility of the sedan, it's not meant to appeal to families and sedan buyers.
Same here, It would be an adjustment coming from a Accord sedan to a civic coupe, but I'm sure I can fit 2 Asians in the back no problemAgreed completely with this. I'm also single, childfree (I don't want kids), hardly carpool to begin with, and my family lives thousands of miles away. It also seems to be an unpopular opinion (from what I've seen around here, haha) in that I prefer the look of the coupe over the sedan—I love how the rear looks. It ticks all of my boxes of what I want in a next car and I'm happy they're still offering "sporty" coupes.
Same here. I've had many friends and family tell me they couldn't even imagine me in a sedan, i'm just a coupe person. I've considered the Accord coupe on a few different occasions when the 9th gen civic coupes were still pre refresh. Alot of people love big huge SUVs and Trucks, i like small coupes (Audi TT is a favorite, and the new civic coupe has a very very similar shape IMO.) I'll take a punchy little turbo 4 coupe over a monster V8 gas guzzler any day honestly.I will forever be. Coupe person...hands down ....I don't like driving a bunch of people around and I'm single...if I need bigger I'll venture to the accord coupe...I'm always more like...why would you want a sedan!! But again ...it's not needed for me
I'm with you. My current civic is a Sedan but I've regretted it since buying it and I am 1000000000000% excited to get the Coupe!I will forever be. Coupe person...hands down ....I don't like driving a bunch of people around and I'm single...if I need bigger I'll venture to the accord coupe...I'm always more like...why would you want a sedan!! But again ...it's not needed for me
Well said, RobbJK88!I see a constant trend among the articles in that "why get the 2 door when the 4 is more useable with back doors". And also "why does honda still bother with a coupe variant due to lack of competition"
In the videos posted of the press event Honda mentioned why the coupe was so important. Yes, the sedan has more utility, but the coupe has always been the basis of the civic's style. And people looking for something affordable, sporty driving and more sporty looking than a sedan will go to coupes. It's the whole form over function argument. I'm a single guy, no kids, and don't really care to haul friends around all the time, so for me choosing the (arguably) more stylish and sportier coupe is a no brainer for me. It's a different demographic they're appealing to. If you need utility you get the sedan, if you want aesthetic you get the coupe. It's not really a good reason to bash the coupe just because it lacks the utility of the sedan, it's not meant to appeal to families and sedan buyers.
Secondly the "why a coupe still" argument due to obvious lack of competition. Honda mentioned this in interviews as well. Coupes started dying off when the economy took its dive. Peoples minds shifted from fun style just because to a more bang for the buck sense of thinking. Less disposable income and more of a need for utility/multitasking etc took over and affordable coupes like the cobalt coupe and others died off. Historically, other automakers tend to flub their coupe counterparts by not making them quite special enough to justify less utility over their almost identical sedan brothers. (i.e. the elantra coupe) If a car maker isn't willing to spice up the suspension and change up the styling a bit (more than just removing rear doors) then yea, it's gonna fail. A coupes lack of utility has to be made up in it's sportier style and driving dynamic, which honda has historically always done for the civic coupe by making it more than just a sedan with less doors.
Besides all that, the coupe civic sells quite well. Better than other coupes in the same market by a pretty wide margin, why would honda want to potentially get rid of such a big money maker and push those customers to competition that does still offer a coupe/3 door hatch variant? And now that the economy is making a slight upswing we could very well see a resaturation of small sporty affordable coupes form various automakers assuming the upswing continues for a few more years at least.