Faults:

It's hard to talk about faults with this car. This is going on the seventh year I've owned it, and I've only changed the battery once.

The main thing worth mentioning is that the diesel particulate filter once clogged, something quite common in modern diesels, but not a serious issue. When this happens, it's best to leave the city for a while and put a few miles on the road.

General Comments:

It's by far the best car I've ever owned. It's comfortable, spacious, very easy to drive, with top-quality materials. It offers a very balanced ride, with a stable ride and a suspension that, although it can be firm, adapts well to different conditions. It has no rust problems on the bodywork and paint, and the interior plastics are well-made. In the city, it's pleasant thanks to the engine's generous torque, which saves me from having to pay too much attention to the gear shift. Its steering has a good turning radius, making its 4.5-meter length easy to maneuver in parking lots.

On secondary roads, it's a very comfortable car; the steering has excellent feel and is quick and informative enough without any jerkiness.

This is in terms of driving and overall vehicle quality. What stands out most is its great fuel efficiency. It's a car that consumes very little fuel, being especially efficient on the highway, which gives it good range.

As for the engine, the 1.6 i-DTEC is smooth, refined, and fairly quiet. In addition to being agile and fast, it has great performance, is agreeable, and is very good for overtaking. The 6-speed manual transmission is undoubtedly important in reducing consumption, and allows the engine to have an excellent response at low and medium revs. It's truly a shame that Honda has stopped making this engine.

Faults:

Honestly, absolutely nothing has gone wrong with this car.

All you have to do is service it on time and not even that!

Parts here in Cyprus are fairly cheap for Japanese cars, and it's all worth it.

General Comments:

For a 1.5L it's a car that picks up speed quite quickly. As for power, it's a brilliant 1.5.

Slightly more comfortable seats would have been a bonus, but they aren't so bad..

Dashboard resembles far newer cars.

I picked it up for CYP8000 at 2000km on the clock, and now with 120,000kms, it still goes for CYP3500-4000.

(CYP Cyprus Pound = 0.59 cents to 1 Euro.)

Faults:

The only thing that went wrong was a problem with the back wheel axis, it seems the car was in an accident resulting the axis being re-fixed, resulting in the back left tyre being a lot quicker consumed (in it's inner side).

General Comments:

Good things:

1) the Car is fast, I mean really fast, both accelaration and top speed. I can zip from 0-100 in 9.5 seconds. I have reached speeds of 170KM/h and I'm sure the car can go beyond that (I stopped accelerating then).

2) Not only is the car fast, it's also build like a sports car: the cornering and handling is simply incredible.

3) It can also go places normal cars wouldn't go (up mountains, flooded roads, really rough terrain etc)

4) It's a sheer pleasure to drive, very comfortable and shock absorbing.

5) It's cheap to buy.

6) It's economic, VERY economic, measured by myself to do 58 miles per gallon (that's 100km with 4.5 litres) at 100km/h.

7) It's very reliable, bought it used in 2000 and drove almost 40000 km so far, never let me down once.

Bad things: the car loses A LOT of performance when you load it with people, put 2-3 people inside and the car's accelaration suffers.