Today I have traded in my car for a new Honda Civic 2.2 diesel.

I collect my new car on Saturday and say bye to a year and 26000 miles spent with my vRS. Why have I done this? well I will now get 24p/mile from my company and 50 mpg as opposed to 17p/mile and 31mpg I get now as they pay more if the engine is over 2000cc. On my new territory with work I'll be doing 30000 business miles/year and those pennies really do add up.

I will miss my Octavia but I'm also excited about the Civic, I test drove it today and it really is a corking engine.

No doubt I will still lurk on here and post occasionally if that's alright!?

Dan

Traitor, I don't ever want to see you on this forum again

Only joking :P

Enjoy the new car

Another defector to Honda :(

On a more serious note, enjoy your new car. I have had a Honda a few years

ago and it was spot on

Another defector to Honda :(

On a more serious note, enjoy your new car. I have had a Honda a few years

ago and it was spot on

Oh right... Any reason for the downgrade?

Sorry to see you go; pity the

Nice choice of car imo. One of the best drives Ive had this year has been in a Civic 2.2 S type GT. In fact if would have been available in a five door version, I may not now have the order in for my new VRS.

Good luck with the new car

Lee

Today I have traded in my car for a new Honda Civic 2.2 diesel.

I collect my new car on Saturday and say bye to a year and 26000 miles spent with my vRS. Why have I done this? well I will now get 24p/mile from my company and 50 mpg as opposed to 17p/mile and 31mpg I get now as they pay more if the engine is over 2000cc. On my new territory with work I'll be doing 30000 business miles/year and those pennies really do add up.

I will miss my Octavia but I'm also excited about the Civic, I test drove it today and it really is a corking engine.

No doubt I will still lurk on here and post occasionally if that's alright!?

Dan

I am confused, your company pays you more to drive a bigger engine? Surely that is not very green? perhaps I am missing something.

I am confused, your company pays you more to drive a bigger engine? Surely that is not very green? perhaps I am missing something.

Arent they simply reimbursing you more as the bigger engine will (generally) cost you more to fuel?!

No it's not very green but Lee is right in that they are giving more money to cover the "increased" cost in fuelling a larger engine.

However they don't distinguish between diesel and petrol and I'm simply exploiting a loophole in the system in that the 2.2 diesel Civic will give 55mpg and I'll be quids in!

Remember that for cash option drivers the inland revenue allows up to 40p/mile for the first 10k miles and 25p thereafter and you can claim tax relief on the difference between these rates and those your company pays.

Bahnstormer; I've come over all sensible and gone for the SE 5 door, if the Octavia vRS TDI was over 2000cc I would have bought one.

Dan

Thanks for the explanation, I am now wiser

i had a similar conundrum when I bought mine as to whether to get the 2.2 ST TDci mondeo or 2.0tdi elegance/L&K. The octy won even though i get less mileage allowance back (4p per mile)

Good choice. You might want to have a look at this:

Civinfo - Honda Civic Forum

Get signed up!!

Good choice. You might want to have a look at this:

Civinfo - Honda Civic Forum

Get signed up!!

Thanks for the lead.

I'd already found it and signed up...how sad!

What real life economy are you getting buy the way?

Dan

35 in town 45 on a run. Not brilliant but improving.

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/general-car-chat/my-new-wheels/82938/

I was lucky, the vRS TDi was on my company list. I do have to pay a little towards it but given the choice between that and a bland Ford or Audi, I think I made the correct choice!

Steve

50mpg from the civic is a tad optamistic imho. I know a good few owners not getting figures like that at all.

I test drove a Type Sgt but found it very underpowered with only 140BHP and preferred the vRS. difference for me is 9p for the skoda and 12p for the civic although I will be seeing the boss to up the 9p per mile on the skoda.

the vRS is due on July 17th

50mpg from the civic is a tad optamistic imho. I know a good few owners not getting figures like that at all.

I test drove a Type Sgt but found it very underpowered with only 140BHP and preferred the vRS. difference for me is 9p for the skoda and 12p for the civic although I will be seeing the boss to up the 9p per mile on the skoda.

the vRS is due on July 17th

Its not underpowered. Its a different engine which produces its power differently. The torque is less peaky and pulls from a lower rev band giving a smoother pull. Its plenty powerful IMO and Ive just come from 170 bhp!!

I was lucky, the vRS TDi was on my company list. I do have to pay a little towards it but given the choice between that and a bland Ford or Audi, I think I made the correct choice!

Steve

Bland Ford - must be, 'cos the equivalent Ford Mondeo ST TDci is something like

Re: my post of the Which? car survey - Honda generally get applauded by Which? but they say that in the medium car class the new Civic has "very poor" reliability at 82%. However, I really liked the 2.2 diesel in the CR-V that I test drove recently.

Keep us informed as to your progress, please.

50mpg from the civic is a tad optamistic imho. I know a good few owners not getting figures like that at all.

I test drove a Type Sgt but found it very underpowered with only 140BHP and preferred the vRS. difference for me is 9p for the skoda and 12p for the civic although I will be seeing the boss to up the 9p per mile on the skoda.

the vRS is due on July 17th

One owner on civinfo recently posted getting 67mpg on a long trip down a busy M1, most of my miles are on dual carriageways so high 40s should be possible.

Will agree to disagree but I found the civic type S underpowered for a so called warm hatch. Very nice car but slow and found the steering wheel could not be set to not obscure the top of the speedo. Again many I know have found mpg dissapointing and I read a thread on civinfo when I was looking about dissapointing mpg's

Just in case anyone is interested the Honda is averaging 47mpg over its first 1000 miles.

On a round trip to Cambridge today (160 plus miles) I averaged 52mpg.

Economy drops significantly during high speed cruising (85plus) so that's probably where the disappointing figures come from.

Max Damage; I in no way see the Honda as comparable to my old petrol vRs (or to a diesel vRS) performance wise...I bought it purely as a money making machine! However I must agree with ChrisRs in that IMHO you can not call it underpowered.....it pulls very strongly and makes this kind of unique whizzy/fizzy noise.

Anyway I am fully aware this is an Octavia II forum so I guess I should shut up and start posting on Civinfo...it's just that I like it here!

Dan