Soch engine should be lighter and less noisy. It is just impressive that honda could match doch performance with a Soch setup.

And technology advancement. The Soch engine could match a doch engine power output. So it not a bad thing. Moreover, Soch engine have better torque curve.

Bug, civic 2.0 power/torque copied paste from 1.8's.

Btw, Honda Soch 1.8l engine is better than Altis doch dvvti on paper.

Typical Malaysian mentality. Just becoz Honda made a few good model like eg, ek, fd doesn't mean fb will be great. In everyone's mind, Honda resale value must be good. This is not true. Go check out a 10 year old accord. S86 trade in price is less than 25k. Retail for 140k back in 2002. U r getting less than 20% of what u have paid. Even a 10 year old wira beat accord, it gets 10k for trade in vs 45k when it was new.

I have nothing against Honda but Neither i worship them. They made a few great models and at d same time, they fail big time e.g. city cvt gearbox.

IMHO, car manufacturers in Malaysia are just being greedy. They know how to take full advantage of car lovers here. Seriously, just look at jazz hybrid. US could sell them at 20k usd yet we r paying close to 100k eventhough it is tax free. Imagine how much Honda Malaysia pocket?