Honda Civic 1987: features of one "time capsule" (15 photos + 1 video)

This 1987 Honda Civic sedan features a 1.5-liter inline four-cylinder engine paired with a four-speed automatic transmission and finished in Gothic Gray over gray fabric interior.





The machine that will be discussed today is nothing special. remarkable, except for one point - its mileage is about 33 thousand kilometers, and everything is preserved in the original. A real time capsule though itself in fact, a typical gray mouse.



Such Civics in the nineties often met on our roads, perhaps even some of you had a similar Honda. Now they are big a rarity, and in this state the third generation Civic I see for the first time in life. By the way, with such a motor - too.





In the basic configuration, and most of the machines to us came with her, there was a 1.3 liter 70-horsepower engine that worked in paired with a 5-speed manual, and here 1.5 liter for 86 forces, but its most interesting feature is that it is a 12-valve. For each There are three valves per cylinder, two for intake and one for exhaust. Box gears - a three-speed automatic.



Machine for the American market, equipped with air conditioning and a mirror rear view electrically adjustable. There is only one mirror - left, right for some reason no, but no one filmed it. That's how it was from the factory. This is the first time I see it on a Japanese car from the eighties.



The salon is boring, but comfortable. Pleasant to the touch plastic, seat upholstery combined, bottom made of leatherette, upper made of a material resembling velours.

Who remembers how comfortable and pleasant they were at any time of the year? I remember them fondly.



Now, by the way, the Japanese auto industry of the eighties is lost in memory motorists and therefore overgrown with many legends. Some of them, for example, reliability and maintainability - true, but there are also frank fiction.



It is generally accepted that all those Japanese were with digital tidy, climate control, electric everything that can be, and almost with a thermal imager, the image of which was displayed on a separate small dash screen. I have heard this nonsense many times myself, but to find out the original source of the myth never succeeded. Nissan had a prototype of the future Maxims in the eighties, with adaptive cruise control and there there really was a thermal imager, but even ardent JDM fans have hardly heard of that car.



In fact, everything, as we see, is simpler. Were often fully packed cars for the domestic market, and for export, even in the USA, cars were made simpler.