nsmacdon
New Member
- Joined
- Oct 17, 2018
- Threads
- 1
- Messages
- 2
- Reaction score
- 1
- Location
- Nova Scotia, Canada
- Vehicle(s)
- 2018 Honda Civic LX, 2016 Honda Odyssey
- Thread starter
- #1
Just traded my trusty little Honda Fit in for a 2018 Civic LX. What I expected to be just a minor trade for a new compact vehicle has turned into what feels like quite an upgrade - I love this Civic!!
We are a two-car family - my wife drives a 2016 Odyssey which we use for family trips and whatnot - so this Civic is my daily driver to/from work and errands, etc. I drive a stick and it's a fun little sedan for zooming around town - a lot more pep and comfort than I was expecting, and much nicer than the Fit in so many ways.
The LX trim is equipped with a number of nice-to-have features: auto climate control, auto headlights, external temperature gauge, headed side mirrors, heated seats, Apple Carplay, cruise, auto up/down windows, etc. The one puzzling omission is the lack of variable intermittent wipers - what?! With everything else this trim level comes with, it seems very odd that they'd exclude such an obvious feature. I've already started searching to see if there is any way to install this in the LX Civic with the EX part - they had success with the last generation, so I'm hopeful.
The electronic parking brake took a bit of getting used to, but I think I like it. I've driven manuals for almost 25 years, and setting the handbrake is so routine for me now that the motion of doing that had to be unlearned, but it's all good!
Minor as it is, I had been hoping for that beautiful blue, but I ended up with black. Honda really needs to do better with their colour options - our Odyssey is white (base model in that case, and white and black were the only choices). With this Civic it was the end of the model year, so they had no blues in manual LX at all in the region. Not a huge deal - the black is quite nice, although hard to keep clean - but I do wish Honda would start offering more colour choices generally.
Now to decide between Blizzaks or x-Ice (or something else)...
We are a two-car family - my wife drives a 2016 Odyssey which we use for family trips and whatnot - so this Civic is my daily driver to/from work and errands, etc. I drive a stick and it's a fun little sedan for zooming around town - a lot more pep and comfort than I was expecting, and much nicer than the Fit in so many ways.
The LX trim is equipped with a number of nice-to-have features: auto climate control, auto headlights, external temperature gauge, headed side mirrors, heated seats, Apple Carplay, cruise, auto up/down windows, etc. The one puzzling omission is the lack of variable intermittent wipers - what?! With everything else this trim level comes with, it seems very odd that they'd exclude such an obvious feature. I've already started searching to see if there is any way to install this in the LX Civic with the EX part - they had success with the last generation, so I'm hopeful.
The electronic parking brake took a bit of getting used to, but I think I like it. I've driven manuals for almost 25 years, and setting the handbrake is so routine for me now that the motion of doing that had to be unlearned, but it's all good!
Minor as it is, I had been hoping for that beautiful blue, but I ended up with black. Honda really needs to do better with their colour options - our Odyssey is white (base model in that case, and white and black were the only choices). With this Civic it was the end of the model year, so they had no blues in manual LX at all in the region. Not a huge deal - the black is quite nice, although hard to keep clean - but I do wish Honda would start offering more colour choices generally.
Now to decide between Blizzaks or x-Ice (or something else)...
Sponsored