1992 Honda Civic VTi from UK and Ireland - Comments

Cam timing belt jumped two teeth and distributer bearing collapsed at 108000 miles (coincidently just after Honda inspected valve clearence).

Excessive front brake pad use after lowering 40mm (under 5000 miles, per set)

Apart from that generally good.

Unbelievable performance (0-60 in 7.3 sec and quarter mile in 15.2s, tested by me).

After fitting ferrodo road race pads braking seriously good.

Out-handles a saxo vts after fitting koni shock/spring kit.

Drivers seat OK for me at 6ft 6in, but no space for passenger behind.

Stupid boot design, all plastic no shelf?

Ahhhh it's a honda GO HOME!!! buy an American car if you want performance. Buy honda if you enjoy fixing your car on the side of the road.

To the writer of the comment above: What are you doing on this site whining about american cars? Read the facts mate!!

Yeah, buy an american car if you want one with a 5 litre engine that'll need refueling every 5 miles. Buy an american car if you want one that ways 10 tonne, and you're after a battering ram. Buy an american car if you like naff styling and ugly images.

Where are the facts to back up this original comment? "Buy Honda if you enjoy fixing your car on the side of the road"

This makes no sense at all, Honda has famed reliability and my experience of a civic 1.8 VTi (owned for one year) backs this up, never had a single problem. I have no personal experience of American cars, but they seem to be just big vehicles with huge engines that don't go round corners very well. Also despite their large engines any proper performance car like an Impreza turbo would outrun them on a track or road.

I'm not sure who you guys are, but I'm a die hard import guy. However I don't enjoy putting down American cars that have a much faster speed. In other words both have very good qualities.

I agree with the above comment. Cars from all parts of the world have their positives and negatives. As for the writer of the first comment, you are just plain ignorant.

Honda have never had a b16a2 engine breakdown from internal fault apart from gearboxes because vtec in first gear just rips the synchro mesh to pieces if done on a regular basis apart from that theyre bulletproof and unlike american cars they don't need 8 cylinders or 12 and 5 litre in size to be able to make over 200bhp says it all really!!

I've just bought a 1992 Honda civic VTi, and these cars are superb, and I would recommend them to anyone who is after one. My Honda has been dyno tested, and is running 175 bhp and it flies.

Only a couple of engine mods have resulted in the power gain. I have a standard exhaust on mine and it sounds like a normal everyday car, until you hit the VTEC, then you notice the sound change, and you will notice it, because the engine screams and it sounds like a race car, which is fantastic.

Also the engines in these are bullet proof, which means a lot more fun and driving flat out.