Faults:

When I got it it was bad... seats started to wear out more.

I bought new tires every 4 months... knowing me.

I blow the motor when it hit about 234,000.

I love this car.

I put about 5,000 on it.

General Comments:

I think this car should be everyone's first car.

Faults:

I got this car at the bitter end of its existence for six hundred dollars.

The rear quarter panels had rusted out almost completely; the previous owner had done some very bad low-budget repairs on it. This led eventually to the car's becoming structurally unsound.

Got in an accident due to two incompetent drivers; one in front of me, one behind. The one in front jumped the brakes and dove to the right with her left turn signal. The one in back tailgated me preventing me from doing a full threshold-braking stop. He was in a large Ford truck and if I had jumped the brakes he'd have crushed me like a grape.

Clutch went at 190,956 miles. I changed it only to break the differential three days later. As it was due for inspection, which it would never have a snowball's chance in hell of passing, I sent it to Linders' scrapyard.

It had a unusual knock under braking due to a warn part in the steering linkage.

General Comments:

You'll always remember your first car. I'll certainly remember this one; it kept me warm in the coldest of my 17 winters, it got 40 miles per gallon day in and day out, and Soichiro Honda and Ayrton Senna got the ride and handling dead right. Even on cheap "Akuret Metric" tires, it handled like a go-kart. It inspired terrific confidence in its driver and never, ever betrayed it.

Sixteen hundred pounds is what this car weighed. That's what a car should weigh. There's no wasted space, no extra material anywhere, no last minute additions, and no "where the heck are we gonna put this" in the ergonomics.

It went like hell to its very last day. With my 200+ lb father and I in the car, it covered 27 miles in 15 minutes with a slightly slipping clutch over generally rising grades. It was capable of 117 MPH and felt more confident at that speed than it did tooling around town.

Unfortunately, Honda hadn't counted on New England winters. They don't salt the roads in Japan; therefore, they were still learning about corrosion prevention in 1988 and only got it right for the '90 Accord and '92 Civic.

Faults:

I've had no real problems with original 62 horsepower engine or the recently installed ZC engine.

General Comments:

I've always been a fan of Honda's superior engineering. I've previously owned a 1977 Civic and a 1980 Accord - both were great cars.

My CRX is fast and reliable, handles well, has plenty of interior space, and still gets great gas mileage. From time to time I think about replacing it with something newer, but always come to the conclusion that my CRX fills my transportation, and entertainment needs quite well.

Faults:

Brakes, Shocks, Seats, Tires, Cassette Player were in really bad condition.

General Comments:

This car handles great even though it is automatic, but I have defeated the Si's, It is so good in fuel consumption, I think ill keep this car until the motor dies and after it dies ill put a zc motor in there.