Why I bought a Honda Civic
I bought a new car today: a silver 2007 Honda Civic EX sedan.
How did I end up choosing the Civic? By process of elimination.
First, I eliminated all American car manufacturers. It’s unfortunate, but I just don’t feel like GM, Chrysler and Ford are making cars that have the reliability of Toyota and Honda.
No, wait — I didn’t eliminate American car manufacturers first. I eliminated French car manufacturers first. My first car was actually French: a Renault Le Car. It was actually a pretty good little car. But I eliminated the French car manufacturers for political reasons.
Despite my decision not to go with a hybrid, I still wanted very good gas mileage. After some research, that left me with three cars that combined good gas mileage and reliability: the Honda Civic, the Toyota Corolla, and the Toyota Yaris.
I test drove the Yaris a few weeks ago, just to see whether it would work for me. It’s a nice car, and relatively inexpensive. However, because it’s intended as a low-end, inexpensive car, it didn’t come standard with some of the features I wanted (things like variable intermittent wipers and cruise control). I would have had to special order one to be made to my specifications and shipped from Japan.
That left the Corolla and the Civic. After test-driving both last week, I decided I just liked the Civic better. So I bought one today.
Still to come… where I bought a Honda Civic.
So, why did you eliminate Nissan?
Awesome! I’ve been thinking about maybe getting one since I now drive 60 miles round-trip to work instead of 30 (and the Blazer only gets about 18 miles to the gallon), but I just made my last Blazer payment and hate to pick up a new one!
> So, why did you eliminate Nissan?
Because I wanted something that got close to 40 miles per gallon on the highway.
I can’t believe you bought a Japanese automobile! What kind of American are you? I am very honest in saying that if you don’t support your country economically then you really need to consider why you stay here. We don’t need people like you that send our hard earned American dollars overseas to Japan so they can buy up our country’s assets. Even if the car is made here, the profits go back to Japan and Japanese stockholders. It is just another example of the hypocrisy of Utahans. They demand we support Bush in a miswaged and immoral war in Iraq (don’t confuse it with the moral Afghanistan war) and attack anyone who dares to question his “spoiled-brat excellency” that has never worked one day in his life. And yet them feel no remorse in selling out Zion to commercial interests and sending our American dollars overseas! That is why I could never live in that state!
Wheh!!! I am sure glad I got that off my chest.