Civic FK - experience and opinions

Civic FK - experience and opinions

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M1C

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Thursday 2nd February 2017
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Hi all!

Just thinking about one of these as a possible next car and would like opinions of these please.

I've very limited experience of the 2.2 diesel, drove one many years ago at work, just the once, but i remember it was quite punchy and smooth for a diesel. Can't really remember much else about it.

However, just the other day, i drove a 2011 1.4 and thought it was excellent! It felt a bit low powered (although adequate bearing in mind what it is). I just found the car really good to drive with sharp steering, great gearchange and i really liked the dashboard and space in the car + boot (we have a 5 year old and another child on way so will need a bit of space)

I've not tested the 1.8 so wondered what this was like?

Having done some reading up the general consensus of the drive is - not great refinement, firm ride on the bigger alloys especially + squeaky clutch pedal (which both of the cars i drove did have!)

I was thinking the 1.8 might be the best balance of something fun to drive with manageable running costs. I'm not sure we'd be doing enough miles to warrant the diesel - but i'm not averse to diesel at all.

So....would appreciate peoples thoughts and experience of them, thank you.