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Old Jan 26, 2004 | 10:52 AM
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Any1 had any experience with these? handed over a deposit on 1 on saturday, pic it up 2nite presuming it goes through its MOT OK

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Old Jan 26, 2004 | 10:58 AM
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My friend had one for a while...

Quick for a small engine, and the VTEC-E for Economy is a decent, strong reliable engine if given good regular servicing and maintenance.

Returns good MPG on a run as well, which is the beauty of the V-tec system.

Enjoy it mate...

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Old Jan 26, 2004 | 11:23 AM
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nice1, thank you, presuming honda had a good reliability track record, I did realise it was the economy, done a little search on google but only thing I found was 45.7 MPG sounds great to me.
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Old Jan 26, 2004 | 11:41 AM
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Not sure about the earlier ones, but I know the later ones had a wee green "economy" light that came on when cruising.. Just to let you know that you are driving like a granny returning max MPG!!

IIRC they come with 115bhp, which is enough to make it quite a nippy wee car.

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Old Jan 26, 2004 | 11:58 AM
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was dissapointed with the performance tbh mate, but I have my Renault for the performance. saw the green econ lite com on, thought it was air con at first fiddling about trying to switch it off...lol

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Old Jan 26, 2004 | 12:54 PM
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a work colleague of mine bought one of these a couple years back, your looking at old XR3i peformance roughly, so not terrible for what is meant as an economy motor. I think he was getting mid 40s out of it without really trying

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