Why are the RS seats are combi leather and not full leather like the V? Cost cutting measure ka?

So I went to a showroom today, damn the SA is super excited about it and keep telling me that the new one is far better than the ketam since he already drove it (ya, without lotax n insurance LOL).
I've tested everything. From seat to sturdiness to everything lah. Here's my findings on the Civic (RS model) in no particular order:
1) Back tyre housing/damper is cloth type. O.O It will get dirty easily right?
2) TBH, when medias keep blow water say "you must come and see for yourself and only you'll know the beauty of it.". NGL, it's real. Seeing it IRL, it's really just, wow! If I were to compare to the direct competitor of M brand, the frontal is almost similar.
3) 2 radiator fans to cool down the 180hp 240Nm engine.
4) Real 2 rear diffusers
5) Head unit (infotaintment) is smooth and huge. UI and UX is pretty intuative. As for Wireless CarPlay (sorry, I no Android device), I found that it's laggy. I was playing song + open waze and my song was struggling abit to play. Waze was also. But all is fine after 1-2s. I'm not sure if it's initial boot or it's my old 8+ device lah.
6) Rear trunk is hydraulic. No helping you to close ya. But the closing of the boot is really, nice.
7) Front hood is HEAVY AF = quality?
8) To change wiper, they follow similar to brand M's same level competitor way. How to trigger it idk but the wiper is half under/below the hood.
9) Speakers, ok lah. Can't really test because too much plastic all over the speaker. Mass general public won't care about the quality la. I bet if HM slapped Bose emblem on it also ppl will believe it's real Bose lol. (I'm not audiophile)
10) I'm > 165cm, < 170cm, front seat put to the optimal driving position, back seat has HUMUNGOUS OF SPACE.
11) Rear AC vents are placed just nice. IDK if it's just me but the location of it looks good.
12) Alot of soft touch area that used to be hard plastic. Well done HM. But lmao, the rear seat's seatbelt there, that's plastic. Imagine sit and kena pushed to the side and then suddenly, hard plastic lol.
13) Usual contact area of the door is soft touch but others is hard plastic.

Ok, I can't rmb liao. That's my 13 cents on FE. 
Booked RS but still deciding. 

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to me, and most (more hardcore) enthusiasts,  the less choices you get

electronics replacing actual mechanical connections
x by wire, brake by wire
fake vents fake engine noises
age of electrification and eventual decline/death of internal combustion engines.

Drive - I personally feel, but I may long suffered memory lost that the acceleration is one small step less than the FC TCP.
I drove all the way up to 100km/h on town roads, I don't feel any problem but I think Altis is slightly better in the corners. Could be I was paying wayy too much attention to the Honda sense functions.

Bro u don't joke pls

Well i have tested this car up genting and short rounding of empire shopping mall big you to federal highway.
On corners, if you want to buang the car on corners, altis will fail. It only allows you to corner comfortably (50 to 60kph tops) bec the engine does its TNGA platform a disservice.

If you want to buang a c segment on corner, even civic does a better job (likely also thanks to PS4) but body roll for passenger is another topic.

The best c segment to buang corner will be mazda 3. Esp the hatchback. Bodyroll is very minimal, the 2.0L gives the oomph esp with paddle shifter and you can lap 90kph on these places without breaking a sweat if you are experienced enough.

Of course if u say comfort corner, i think altis will take it but hey make no mistake even a car half the altis price can corner like altis does with anti roll bar installed

civic, brand new car, 2022. Camry, old car supposed last time get new dynamic force engine. only our UMW make it as a brand new 2022 Camry when Thai already had this engine for a few years ago.

now D-segment heading close to the 200k price range. I say many will rather convert to Conti car then. Those include the current-gen Accord. On my Accord G9 whatapps group owner, many just upgrade to Conti, 3-series, C-class when looking at G10 Accord price, spec, and the interior.

Sometimes I don't know whether to trust overseas reviews, not sure if Malaysian CKD can be held to the same standards
The 10th gen Accord seems to have good reviews over there, but I tested one locally, and both me and my passengers were really disappointed

Sometimes I'm not sure if the SA no sound no gas, or they just really have too good sales they malas to layan each individual customer
I asked mine to inform me once got test drive car, never reach out to me even though the showroom already got test drive car for some time (I know since I sometimes pass by the showroom on my usual trips), only will remind to apply loan to get car early

E or V spec guys? im just a normal road user however would like to get most bang for the buck car. thanks all!

Hi. A little confused on the right tyre pressure for 18" . Indicator anear door panel shows 220kpa but some said 240-260 kpa should be the correct pressure. Any advise?

what I was saying is I will literally override engineers:
https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...ost&p=103468198

I want to add a bit on the E spec that is not obvious :
The 7” display instrument panel does NOT display
1. Phone info
2. Song or media player info
3. Navigation turn by turn

While V and above can do this. This could be due to the limitation from the head unit itself, but I think it is mainly deliberate tiering from Honda Malaysia. To punish us for paying less / reward you for paying more. If it’s important to you then take note and take action.

Basically my E spec can only do the miles / odo / trip meter and show the driver attention level if I want it to. Others cannot show…a very basic driving only system. I’ll get used it of course, but I am more and more tempted to change the head unit when something comes up in the aftermarket.

I would say BS because Civic FC never had this stupid waiting period.

But I could be wrong because:
1) FE Civic is a globalized platform that's heavily impacted by global supply chain and logistics
2) one story SA tend to use is the recent floods causing stockpiled parts impact
3) people rushing to purchase cuz of Tax relief (SST)
4) many people saved bullet during pandemic, including our family, we already originally planned to buy FC during 2020 but pulled out due to many reasons, pandemic uncertainties being one of them.
5) many people on the fence (including us) because of Honda first mainstream turbo charged engine and there's in fact overheating issues to some owners which is probably acknowledged and mitigated/completely resolved in FE as you can tell from the wide gaping front grills and opening, the ENTIRE intercooler is even fully exposed very visible in the front btw.

So with that I believe the FE will be getting better sales over time. (Or I could be wrong cuz many people don't like Honda Civic 's "tock models" lol)

A hatchback C segment makes a damn lot of sense. I don’t understand why we don’t have it. In fact I will buy the hatch Civic if I were in the US. I think Japan also only has hatch version right?

But SUV ingress and egress especially compared to sports car FE, is day and night. My knees actually tell me something everyday 4x….something like taking a few steps too much on the staircase.