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Old September 22nd 04, 07:56 AM
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Caroline wrote:

> "SoCalMike" > wrote
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>>Caroline wrote:
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>>>Economically speaking: Drive it until there's a major expense (or major

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> ongoing
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>>>expenses) that you just don't want to pay.
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>>>Taste-wise: Drive it until you get sick of its looks.
>>>
>>>I'd say keep it at least one more year. If you don't have the money for a

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> new
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>>>car, consider taking this one to at least 200k miles.
>>>
>>>Caroline
>>>Original owner, 1991 Civic LX, 157k miles, never had air conditioning, but
>>>driven mostly up north, and I'm a tough bird when it comes to hot summer
>>>temperatures, anyway. Gonna take it to at least 250k miles or five more

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> years,
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>>>but I do my almost all my own maintenance on the car. 42 mpg is usual in the
>>>summer time. Can't beat that without going hybrid.

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>>you suck, caroline

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> <kissy-smooch> back at ya. :-)
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>>its amazing that in just 7 years, the mpg of civics dropped about 10
>>mpg.

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> Those Honda design yahoos had increased the Civic engine size to 1.6 liters
> (from 1.5 liters) by 1998.
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> Why'd they do that? Caving in to foul American car consumer taste?
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> Is Honda in this for the money or something?
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>>mu 98 gets about 32 average. i always liked the way that particular
>>generation of civics looked, too... low beltline, wedgy, lots of glass.
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>>its completely the opposite now on almost all cars.. high doors, small
>>windows. the chyrysler 300 comes to mind, as well as the corolla, and
>>scions.

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> Yes. As I've said a few times in the past year or so, if something catastrophic
> happened to my 1991 Civic tomorrow, I'd be looking at a new Toyota Echo (also a
> 1.5 liter engine). But jeez I am not wild about the Echo's boxy look and lack of
> velour upholstery on the inside.


Does it have velour upholstery on the outside?
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