Why the dislike for Honda?

**vagrant** · 16th August 2007, 12:21

A quick survey of the carpark outside work shows 1x XL250, a VT250, a honda scooter, a suzuki scooter, and 2 fireblades. (but not mine because I'm a Nana and it's raining

) There is also one of those electric rechargable scooters, but we don't know who made it, as none of us can read Chinese.

Does that mean anything at all, probably not,

**Renegade** · 16th August 2007, 12:44

i really hate the honda cars, driven lots of them and they are all the same, inside and out, just identical and boring, then those boy racers get hold of them and put an after market exhuast on them and now they sound like a cat on fire screaming itself to death.

Honda bikes on the other hand i have always liked to some degree, its was the little things like a cover here or a chrome cap there that set them apart, attention to detail and finish i guess.

**marioc** · 16th August 2007, 13:16

Yeah its the riced up Civics and tegs etc that have given Honda cars a bad name.
As for bikes dunno what thats all about.

**scumdog** · 16th August 2007, 13:30

Originally Posted by pritch008

. Character has you standing by your Harley miles from home in the middle of the night. Thank you, but no thank you. So I will (hopefully) gladly sacrifice character for reliability.

Whatever turns your crank.

I had a Honda once - funnily enough if you took the name 'Harley' out of the above sentence and replaced it with 'Honda" it would be 100% accurate in my experience!! Character I could have done without!

However, I've nothing against Hondas and if the need arose would be quite happy to buy another one.

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**merv** · 16th August 2007, 13:34

Originally Posted by marioc

Yeah its the riced up Civics and tegs etc that have given Honda cars a bad name.

Like the CRX that hit a bridge the other day.

**Sanx** · 16th August 2007, 14:26

Originally Posted by merv

Like the CRX that hit a bridge the other day.

It's all the boi-racers that, as someone said, stick a trash can on the end of the exhaust system and think they've turned their mum's old Civic into a Civic Type-R. Honda do make some very good sporty cars. The Type-R Integras and Civics are remarkably effective back-road scratchers for the price they come in at. Light-weight, nimble and got good power too, provided you can get used to the engine characteristics and feel comfortable revving the nuts off it all the time.

I used to have an S2000 back in the UK. Two litre, 240hp, rear-wheel drive, very stiff chassis and fantastic handling. I had great fun pissing all over Porsche Boxster owners - under acceleration, on the brakes, round bends, pretty much everywhere really. Though that probably says more about the sort of nouveau-riche poseurs who go out and buy Porsches than it does the actual cars. Once you got used to the engine needing more than 6000 rpm on the clock to produce any power, it was a great car.

**merv** · 16th August 2007, 14:37

I was surprised with the Fifth Gear show on TV1 a few Sunday's back where they raced what looked like a reasonably standard 4 door Accord Euro in an endurance race and it pissed on the Mazda RX8's. No doubt it had a type R spec V-tec engine.

We swear by Honda cars too - still got two in our stable.

**Sanx** · 16th August 2007, 14:41

Originally Posted by merv

I was surprised with the Fifth Gear show on TV1 a few Sunday's back where they raced what looked like a reasonably standard 4 door Accord Euro in an endurance race and it pissed on the Mazda RX8's. No doubt it had a type R spec V-tec engine.

We swear by Honda cars too - still got two in our stable.

Says more about the RX8. I test drove one a while back. Put my foot down in 2nd, waited for the power to come, and then it hit the rev limiter. Dunno what it was doing with the claimed 280 ponies Mazda says it makes, but it sure wasn't using them to make the car move.

**Blackbird** · 16th August 2007, 15:10

Originally Posted by merv

I was surprised with the Fifth Gear show on TV1 a few Sunday's back where they raced what looked like a reasonably standard 4 door Accord Euro in an endurance race and it pissed on the Mazda RX8's. No doubt it had a type R spec V-tec engine.

We swear by Honda cars too - still got two in our stable.

Those Euros are a fantastic drive. We have one as a pool car at work and there's always a scramble to get it ahead of the Falcon and Maxima.

**merv** · 16th August 2007, 15:20

Originally Posted by Blackbird

Those Euros are a fantastic drive. We have one as a pool car at work and there's always a scramble to get it ahead of the Falcon and Maxima.

Thought about one for Mrs merv recently but for the price of the bottom spec Euro we bought the new top spec Civic so she got the leather, sunroof, body kit and all the biz and she was happy with 114kw instead of 140kw coz she hardly leaves town in it.