This is long winded so bear with me here. When I bought my coupe in June I had intended to buy a sedan. But I laid eyes on the TW coupe and had to get it.
Well, after a few months if driving it, I'm wishing I had gotten the sedan like I intended to.
1) The coupe headroom sucks for me. I like to sit kind of upright. To keep from scraping my head in the coupe I need to sit more reclined than I like. Even when I get it acceptable, I'll often still hit my head on large bumps.
2) The compromised visibility bothers me...specifically over the left shoulder when changing lanes. I drive through nasty freeway traffic a lot and often need to make quick decisions to move over a lane or not. It's hard to judge if I've got room or not because a personal habit if mine has always been to glance over my left shoulder through the rear side door window or rear quarter window to make sure the blind spot is clear. The coupes rear quarter window is too small and the B and C pillars block that view. I put a small convex blind spot mirror on the drivers side mirror but it too hard to trust and does no good at night.
3) Even though its not a primary family travel car, I find that I've had the kids in it a lot more than I figured I would, and even by compact coupe standards, the rear seat is tight and the access is even tighter.
4) My coupe is a 3/15 production car and is right in the middle of the VIN range for the oil consumption problem. My car does burn quite a bit, but not quite enough to meet what Honda considers excessive. So I'm afraid that as long as I own this car, I'll keep adding 2-3 quarts every 5k miles (completely unacceptable in my opinion, but not Honda's) until a few years from now consumption will finally worsen...but I'll be out of warranty and be paying for the piston&ring job myself. I'd imagine any new Si currently on a dealer lot was made after the affected range.
So I got a quote from one dealer of $19,750 for a base model Si sedan. Only problem (for me) is that it's SOP. Definitely an interesting color but I couldn't look at it every day. I would be taking a bit if a bath on trading in the coupe, as I owe about $18,500 on it and I believe clean trade in is about $17,500 but the $3400 off sticker on the sedan will soften that blow. Another dealer I'm waiting to hear back from has a CBP. I'm an old friend of the G.M. who ive contacted directly, so I'm hoping he may get me an even better deal. Not my first color choice either, because of the daunting task of keeping it clean, but I do think the CBP takes the look of the sedan to another level that the other colors don't. Still I'd rather AS or TW, especially to hide the rock chips and road rash that come with driving 25k highway miles a year.
Part of me says wait for the '13s....but then I'd be looking at full sticker price and likely not much of a finance rate. You get .9% on the '12s. Another part of me says wait for a '13 Accord Sport...but that will push my monthly payments out past the magical line in the sand drawn by the CFO...
Well, after a few months if driving it, I'm wishing I had gotten the sedan like I intended to.
1) The coupe headroom sucks for me. I like to sit kind of upright. To keep from scraping my head in the coupe I need to sit more reclined than I like. Even when I get it acceptable, I'll often still hit my head on large bumps.
2) The compromised visibility bothers me...specifically over the left shoulder when changing lanes. I drive through nasty freeway traffic a lot and often need to make quick decisions to move over a lane or not. It's hard to judge if I've got room or not because a personal habit if mine has always been to glance over my left shoulder through the rear side door window or rear quarter window to make sure the blind spot is clear. The coupes rear quarter window is too small and the B and C pillars block that view. I put a small convex blind spot mirror on the drivers side mirror but it too hard to trust and does no good at night.
3) Even though its not a primary family travel car, I find that I've had the kids in it a lot more than I figured I would, and even by compact coupe standards, the rear seat is tight and the access is even tighter.
4) My coupe is a 3/15 production car and is right in the middle of the VIN range for the oil consumption problem. My car does burn quite a bit, but not quite enough to meet what Honda considers excessive. So I'm afraid that as long as I own this car, I'll keep adding 2-3 quarts every 5k miles (completely unacceptable in my opinion, but not Honda's) until a few years from now consumption will finally worsen...but I'll be out of warranty and be paying for the piston&ring job myself. I'd imagine any new Si currently on a dealer lot was made after the affected range.
So I got a quote from one dealer of $19,750 for a base model Si sedan. Only problem (for me) is that it's SOP. Definitely an interesting color but I couldn't look at it every day. I would be taking a bit if a bath on trading in the coupe, as I owe about $18,500 on it and I believe clean trade in is about $17,500 but the $3400 off sticker on the sedan will soften that blow. Another dealer I'm waiting to hear back from has a CBP. I'm an old friend of the G.M. who ive contacted directly, so I'm hoping he may get me an even better deal. Not my first color choice either, because of the daunting task of keeping it clean, but I do think the CBP takes the look of the sedan to another level that the other colors don't. Still I'd rather AS or TW, especially to hide the rock chips and road rash that come with driving 25k highway miles a year.
Part of me says wait for the '13s....but then I'd be looking at full sticker price and likely not much of a finance rate. You get .9% on the '12s. Another part of me says wait for a '13 Accord Sport...but that will push my monthly payments out past the magical line in the sand drawn by the CFO...
