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Old 07-11-2020, 07:16 AM   #31
VarmintCong
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Location: Peabody, MA
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Originally Posted by JP Chestnut View Post
The SI supposedly isn't offered as a hatch because the SI program was handled in the USA while the hatch body is made in the UK. The claim is that it would have been too expensive to ship SI engines to the UK or incomplete hatches to the USA. Last I heard, the USA was taking over hatch production, so I have high hopes of an 11th gen SI hatch.

Unfortunately, Honda seems to struggle every other generation so the 11th gen might be a repeat of the 9th. In which case, I'm out.
Yeah, that does make sense, and I heard hatch sales were like double what they expected. The Civic hatch is really more like a fastback - very different from the GTI-type tall short hatches - that's why I like it. The GTI hatch is only useful if you fold the seats down, while a fastback is much more practical with seats up.

Yeah, the spy shots of what people think is 11th gen Type R make the car look huge, they could definitely screw it up.
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