1998 Honda Civic DX review from North America

Door and trunk seals started falling off at 43kmi.

Radio display had started to haze from inside at 45kmi.

Passenger front window would open a crack due to road vibrations, causing irritating whistling at speeds 45+mph, at 50kmi.

Loose, but not falling apart, driver front door handle at 60kmi.

Incredibly easy to regularly maintain every 3kmi with oil changes, fluid checks, rotating tyres, installing new brakes. A wonderful car upon which to learn and/or modify, being a Honda.

Not much power, but being stock and the DX model it is not known for performance, mainly reliability. Acceleration was OK, would have liked to put in an after market air intake for a little extra 'oomph'.

Reliability was amazing. Every single time I turned the key, it started. Never had any major defects, only routine fluid flushes and visual inspections at 60kmi checkup.

Survived driving around a primitive campground for 3 weeks without needing an alignment.

Great gas mileage, 32mpg highway (once got 38mpg) on regular unleaded and Techron every 3kmi.

Speed on 25mph exit ramps was average. In snow handled better than average.

Trunk with fold-down back seats made transporting items even as long as skis a breeze.

Shifter was at awkward distance, too far, while driving. Remedied with custom built shifter knob.