Test drove a new Civic sedan today!

[Silver8th]

Originally Posted by webby

lol - I had a feeling that might be the case. When I told the wife you test drove it she was like... WHAT!!!? He's getting a new civic now? I told her that you might have been looking at the odyssey.

I have good news though. I just got back from the dealer. They don't have any brochures for the car yet, but the guy told me he could do better. I looked at him puzzled, because I scoped the entire lot for an 06 without finding one. He said while I was inside the dealership, a truck had just pulled up in the back with an 06 sedan in the new blue color.

We went out back and looked it over. Very impressive. I couldn't drive it yet, because they didn't even check it out at the dealer. He told me to come back in about 2hrs so I could test drive the car. There are definate changes over the previous civic.

Wipers now are at each end of the windshield and point toward the center. Then they wipe each side from the center out.

Rear seats - They don't split now. The entire rear seat now folds as one piece and the latch is now in the truck to release the seat back. Shame on Honda for that. I can't yet reason why the rear seat wouldn't be split folding. That way someone could still sit in the back with an item coming into the cabin from the trunk. Now that isn't possible.

Door shape up by the side mirrors. The front door has a crazy angle to get around having the door too big I'm guessing. It leaves a portion of the glass solid on the vehicle instead of being attached to the door like normal. So when you open the door- look at the angle up by the side mirrors. Just looks funny - but is still cool.

I'll update more after test drive in a few hours.

I thought the seats are 60/40? And I agree that mirror deal on the sedan is weird looking.

[Silver8th]

Originally Posted by webby

Civic EX Sedan with Navi 5-Speed Manual =$19,760 5-Speed Automatic= $20,560

off the other pricing I posted on the home page. MSRP price

My drive out on a EX coupe w/Navi is gonna be just at $22,600, It should be here around Oct 15th ,at least Im hoping. I can't afford these high gas prices any more!