Civic 1.4

NeverWinter · 4 Mar 2011 at 13:04

Posting for a friend who's getting rid of his 52 plate CTR for financial reasons and wants to stick with Honda.

He's going to look at a 1.4 S reg Civic and I told him that it may be a bad engine for that size of car and a larger engine may be more economical for him... Any input?

NeverWinter · 4 Mar 2011 at 14:04

For now I don't think he's worried about speed more reliability and economy at least until his finances are sorted. But I think he'd be better with a bigger engine for economy

NeverWinter · 4 Mar 2011 at 14:38

ajstan said:
And anyway, chances are because the 1.4 would have to be worked harder, it would achieve similar MPG in the real world to the 1.6.

This was my thinking.

In a smaller car (mini sized) I would definitely say 1.4 is easily more economical than a bigger engine. But this is why I'm asking on here.

NeverWinter · 4 Mar 2011 at 15:16

Peerzy said:
What would be more economical, a 7 Series with a 1.6 litre 100bhp~ petrol engine or a 7 Series with a 3 litre 230bhp~ petrol engine in it?

Generally speaking.

But does this hold true to the Civic engines?

NeverWinter · 4 Mar 2011 at 15:32

Peerzy said:
Who knows, can't say I've tested the two Civic engines.

The post I quoted picked up on the simple statement of 'bigger engines can never be more economical' which might not always be true.

Oh yeah, I understand that. I'm just trying to find out to stop a friend from buying an 'economical' 1.4 engine with a lack of power when he could get a 1.6+ with similar real world economy and a bit more power when needed.