Hi all,

Currently trying to compare these 3 cars: Civic, Mazda 3 and the Altis. Can anyone comment?

1. Which one has less wind noise when driving on the highway?

2. Which one has a more comfortable ride when driving at highway speeds?

3. Which one is more composed / more stable at say around 150km/h? Can be stable until how many km/h?

4. Which one has a better throttle response in heavy traffic? Means like when step on the gas pedal, it moves instantly. No hesitation, no need to wait before it starts to move.

Thanks!

For item 4, because if the throttle response is laggy, step on accelerator then only after 1-2 seconds only move, then it will feel unresponsive. In stop go traffic jams, this will lead to others cutting into my lane. Which also means I have to try to estimate how soon the car in front of me moves, so I can step on the accelerator earlier.

This is why I would prefer a more instantaneous throttle response.

Thank you for sharing information

Thanks very much for the advice.


Seems like quite a number of brands on the market. Anyone you recommend?

I think you are spot on. Agree with you. I test drove the Civic the other day and really liked how it drove. Powerful, smooth, can coast easily. So I wanted to find out how are other LYN forumers experience in this thread.

So far have found:

aircon leaking?
battery fails early, as soon as 5 months
cvt grinding sound on hot restart
burning smell when driving fast? someone said is from tires
rattling sound aircond vent area at driver side - window rubber / door rubber didnt place properly
centre display screen burnt
parts gapping - sometimes gap is too big
tilt sensor blinking
" I pressed the break pedal and want to start the engine. But instead of starting, it's cycling through the accessories and on state without starting. Had to release and press the break pedal again before it can start. Weird."
head unit need to reboot sometimes

Even quite a number of FC club members on facebook have a bunch of CVT issues. Gearbox replaced because of weird intermittent grinding sound during startup.


I will probably wait until Honda fixes all these issues first. Perhaps Honda's QC is dropping because they are rushing to fulfill a backlog of orders.

I hope you are right. I would like to buy a c-segment car at the end of this year and the Honda civic is my first choice as long as all its problems has been resolved. Hopefully it will last long and won't give CVT issues after the warranty is over because I usually keep my cars for 9-10 years.

This post has been edited by konchy: May 20 2017, 11:54 AM

It's true that no car is perfect. There are bound to be defects here and there.

I like to go look at LYN forum and compare the various car threads and read what the owners say. On some car threads, the owners have a lot more problems whereas on some other car threads, there aren't that many problems. Then we can get a feel as to what the build quality of the car is like. Whereas some car threads are just not active, possibly because that particular car just don't have much sales.

What are the common problems on the Mazda 3 and the Altis?

What is the recall for? Do you have a link to the recall?