1993 Honda Civic VTi from UK and Ireland - Comments

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The VTi is a very quick car.

I have owned one for 1 and a half years. I have had minor faults, but the engines makes up for all of them. 0-60 timed in 7.7 seconds. It can keep up with any of the 1.6 cars and eat most of them for lunch. You must put an air filter to appreciate the sound change at 5500 rpm. It is amazing and all ways puts a smile on my face. Excellent 1st gear and 2nd gears. The downside is that you need to rev it high when driving at 40mph if you want to keep up with subarus and evos. Best way is to drop a gear down.

Watch the 'Bradford civic'on youtube. Greasy we nose. You need to lower the car for handling around very sharp corners. I have raced civic type r, integra type r, bmw 325i, bmw x5 4.6 sport, Mercedes clk compressor, startlet turbo, toyota mr2 16x16, vauxhall gsi, don't race saxos and novas. Raced focus, The civic is a sheep in a wolf's clothing.

I'm sorry, but I fail to see how you can keep up with subarus and evos, especially from 40 onwards.

Subaru 0-60 in 5.5s

Evo 360 0-60 in 4.1s

Civic 0-60 in 7.7s

Please explain your comments, you sure do have me confused.

I agree, but its not just the EVO and scoobies. Most of those cars that were listed would make mince meat out of a 1.6 VTEC. Interga type R?? One of those would be gone, I own a 260 bhp WRX and I've had a few scares off type Rs, but not a 1.6 VTI. Though I'm sure they are fine cars for a 1.6.

My civic vti is tuned up to 220bhp it eats evos and scoobies for breakfast apart from the sti and plus 300bhp evos.

Ah well the key word here is TUNED.

Relax people. The car is a bear in a hyiena back. Seriously it is quick for what it is. It hasn't beaten subarus or evos, but at bottom end in 1st gear it can keep up as the vtec is very powerful in 1st. Gear ratio is 1st = 40mph, 2nd = 63mph, 3rd = 90mph, 4th = 120mph, 5th = 145mph off clock. Watch on you tube, rally vti, also bradford vti. That is a standard vti. And I have kept up with an integra type r it was N reg 1.8 195bhp!!!

The civic vti is the ultimate for a 1.6 non turbo. The way to keep with a subaru or an evo is to launch the car. For those pathetic drivers that have a vti and don't know how to do it I will tell them. You have to rev the car to about 4500rpm. Then when setting off pull the clutch up to biting point and let go of it slowly. Whilst letting go off it rev the engine more. This will put the car into vtec almost straight away shredding about a second of the 0-60 time. So my car does 0-60 normally about 7 seconds. But with the lauch it does it about 6 seconds allowing me to put subaru and evo drivers to shame.!!!

Even if what you are saying is true, though I can't see it myself, 6 seconds is still not enough for even a 225 base WRX, let alone an STI or EVO. You Will never get off the line as good as AWD. And after launch you would get left too.

I've left a comment on a similar review. I've got a Civic VTi and 0-60 is dealt with in 7.8 when I time it, and it's only done 67000 miles with a FSH, so it wouldn't of lost any of its power. And yes I do know how to drive it.

No way will it ever do 0-60 in 6 seconds. Stop saying such things; you're ruining the reputation of this fabulous car. It was class leading amongst small hatchbacks back when it came out. That guy who's saying he can do 0-60 in 6 seconds obviously doesn't know what he's talking about, because real Imprezas and Evos do 0-60 in little over 4 seconds, so you would still be miles behind even if what you are saying was true.

The Evo FQ400 does 0-60 in 3.5, which is over twice as fast, but I bet you would still swear blind that you could keep up with them.

I will say it again; please stop saying saying such daft things about this great car because you're turning everyone against it and soon it will be hated as much as the Saxo VTR and the 106 GTi. I don't want this for my car so stop doing it.

As I said earlier about the civic vti that the performance is excellent for a 1.6. The 0-60 time is normally about 7.2 seconds. But with the launch it is about 6 seconds. I did not say that it is faster than evo fq400. It will give a normal subaru wrx a good go. I am talking about the 260-280 BHP ones. They do 0-60 in about 5.5 to 6 seconds according to parkers. Listen I have raced these cars and managed to keep up with them in 1st and 2nd gear so don't tell me how to drive. Put it this way I can make these civics move. The suprise on the other drivers face would say it all.

The guy who wrote the comment above obviously doesn't know what he's talking about, first of all I've had a look on Parkers and it shows a 6.1 0-60 time of a standard WRX which only has 214bhp, don't know how he manages to keep up with Subaru's that have 260 to 280bhp, I think it's his first nippy car and he thinks he can take anything on.

By all means the VTi is not a slow car, in fact it's very quick for a 1.6, but don't spoil its reputation by saying it keeps up with Impreza's; maybe if it was tuned to 200+ bhp.

The 215 BHP bug eye is around 6 seconds I believe, the later 225 03 ones were 5.6 and the 260-280 ones are anything from 4.5 seconds to 5.2 4.5 for a P1 through to 5.2 for an STI then you have ones in between like the WRX PPP (and there is a lot on the road) witch has a claimed 4.8 I know you have to abuse it to get these times, but still if you didn't rev the bollocks off it on a launch the AWD and power still do their job, I have an impreza, I've never abused it at launch, but have beaten faster cars than this civic.

What's that Civic guy on about with this "launch" rubbish. The given time for the Civic VTi is 7.7, and when I time it I sometimes get 7.5, sometimes 7.9; it is around 7.7 - 7.8. Do you think when they were testing the car they didn't know how to get the best from it? You probably raced a crap non turbo Impreza; no way would you keep up even the slowest turbo models.

There is no such thing as a "launch" with this car; everyone that drives a v-tec Honda knows how to start the car off in v-tec; we're not thick. Stop ruining the reputation of the car; can't you see what you're doing, you're making everyone leave negative comments about it when everyone should be praising it for being one of the fastest 1.6 cars ever. Do you seriously think Honda would make the Civic Type R slower than what the VTi was.

"The civic vti is the ultimate for a 1.6 non turbo. The way to keep with a subaru or an evo is to launch the car. For those pathetic drivers that have a vti and don't know how to do it I will tell them. You have to rev the car to about 4500rpm. Then when setting off pull the clutch up to biting point and let go of it slowly. Whilst letting go off it rev the engine more. This will put the car into vtec almost straight away shredding about a second of the 0-60 time. So my car does 0-60 normally about 7 seconds. But with the lauch it does it about 6 seconds allowing me to put subaru and evo drivers to shame.!!!"

Launch...lol. "4500 RPM and then let the clutch out slowly", that sounds like the perfect way to ruin a clutch. Anyway what if the WRX or EVO drivers used the 'launch'?.

If a Subaru or any turbo car did a launch, the vtec would get left for dead, even if it's a Type R.

Hi, have seen a Honda, civic, tuned up to 602bhp on youtube.

Have a look.

What I thought was good, but then I thought how much can you tune a WRX up to? 1200 BHP SUBARU 7 SEC 1/4 MILE SUBARU IMPREZA!

Type this in youtube

1200 BHP SUBARU 7 SEC 1/4 MILE SUBARU IMPREZA!