2K5TSX

I'm willing to bet the 2009 Civic will have Navi. They are slowly getting rid of the CSX... first it lost it's 197hp advantage over the civic.... now it's leather... soon the civic will get Navi... only a matter of time. The Mazda 3 comes with HIDs so maybe even HIDs in the civic? At least projectors.

szuberi

Brian...as you yourself said it...perhaps the only distinguishing feature that the CSX now has is the Navi plus the Acura name. buyers are very savvy now...they wont pay $7K more (in case of CTS vs. SI) and over $9K (in case of CTS and EXL) for just that or perhaps not a lot of buyers for Honda to make business sense. A typical new honda civic buyer is a more or less a family person like you and me...so i guess we have alot of other bills to pay first..haha

Whether the CSX stays or not....its only a guess but imo, not a bad one. The price parity difference with US has a major role to play...the SI in US is considerably cheaper than Canada.

Double B

What would be good is if we can see what the stats are on the car for sales compaired to the top end 4 door Civics.

If Acura decides to drop it, it will depend on those stats imo. The CSX was made specifically for Canadian consumers. It also brings an entry to the Acura line up that sets up for the TSX.

We will see what they do. Time will tell.

viper_2_4

the CSX also has paddle shifters in the automatic...not sure if that is enough for most people to justify the price...but there are definitely still some (small) differentiators...again, not sure if its enough to keep it around...

cibs

the paddle shifters might appeal to the pretend enthusiast... cuz honestly after driving the thing they're so unresponsive... i'd rather have sport shift mode than the paddle shift crap...

jao530

hey i was just on the honda website and looking at the 08 civics and i was build and price and at the bottom they had the option of the si model. You guys should check it out.

JSpec_JDM

civic 4d si + leather seats basically = acura csx-s

pay more for the looks?

Double B

Not quite. It's still comes with a SOHC engine. CSX and CSX type S are both DOHC. 155 and 197 respectively. The Civic leather is about 140

07Ex

... and the 4DR Si does not have an option for leather.

... so it's not the same as the Acura CSX Type-S.

szuberi

the si sedan is a much better value than the csx-s in my opinion. leather seats, navi plus the acura label is not worth the extra $7K difference. thats all that is different b/w the two.

damn...i might buy the si sedan next year :-)

Double B

Sal, the OTHER car might be an Altima SE-R.............

Mikey

yep and i think theres an option for heated seats too.

viper_2_4

You can't get leather on the Si Sedan...so if you want leather+K20 you have to get the CSX-S....you can only get leather on the EX-L...

07Ex

Just read post #29 above.

szuberi

those bucket seats on the si sedan are way more a prize than leather seats

07Ex

I totally agree. I would never go for the leather seats on the new Civic. They don't look all that nice anyway.

Cali

i think leather seats in a civic would just be weird.. stick to cloth...