jred721
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- First Name
- James
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- Northern Virginia
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- '20 Accord Sport
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Its kinda premature but my lease ends in about a year and I was trying to figure out whether I should buy the car out or not. My Civic doesn't have many miles on it (only 11.3k since March 2018) but thats going to change starting this fall as I am going to rack up the miles on my Civic for long trips instead of my other cars which take the brunt of the mileage. So because of this, I was wondering if it's worth it to upgrade to a Civic with the turbo engine for a little extra power for highway driving or if the 2.0 is sufficient.
My tuned 2.0 is by no means slow or underpowered (its even fun sometimes), but the design of the engine is that you need to rev it out to get into the meat of the powerband as is with most Honda NA 4 cyl engines. I just took my Civic on a long trip today where I was averaging 80-90 mph ( even hit 110 mph on an open straightaway with no traffic) and it did it well, but there were times where I had to sort of wring out the engine for passing power or acceleration. Just wondering if anyone who went from a 2.0 to a 1.5 can comment on whether or not it's actually an improvement for driving situations like these. Wringing out the engine also hurt my fuel economy and gave me about 30.3 mpg on the highway at the end.
My tuned 2.0 is by no means slow or underpowered (its even fun sometimes), but the design of the engine is that you need to rev it out to get into the meat of the powerband as is with most Honda NA 4 cyl engines. I just took my Civic on a long trip today where I was averaging 80-90 mph ( even hit 110 mph on an open straightaway with no traffic) and it did it well, but there were times where I had to sort of wring out the engine for passing power or acceleration. Just wondering if anyone who went from a 2.0 to a 1.5 can comment on whether or not it's actually an improvement for driving situations like these. Wringing out the engine also hurt my fuel economy and gave me about 30.3 mpg on the highway at the end.
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