@ahmedbila....thanks mate...i always prefer that one must get something which really worth..buying crap cultus fr a million is unbelieveable..when i was buying this i had options of 2.0D corolla, Lancer 04, City 04 kchi reg, civic 99 VTi Oriel, but i went for this as i had owned civic 95 twice n 98 once, so i had no attraction for any civic...As far as monopoly is concern, you are 100 percent right, why to pay these monopolist for their craps??? back in 2006, i had an option of buying cultus or santro, i went for Santro, really a wonderful experiance,1n 2001 i had option of new Alto or Un reg 2001 quota daewoo, i went for Daewoo, which proved its value and sold within one day when i gave add in the newspaper, in 1996 the options were Corolla 86 and Accord 85, i went for Accord..at that time it had every option one can think of, like it was 2.0L, Twincam, 16 valve,Cruise control, digital and graphical meter, distance n milage calculator, seat height adjustment,lumbar adjustment, heater below the front seats,etc. Now i ll compare the 7th gen civic with Accord 1996, so frankly speaking civic has better acceleration, very quick and reaches 160 in very short span of tym,you dnt need to pull the car wheras, accord is a lil slugish,breaking of accord is far better,AC blower is better then civic,Suspension is way better and very soft as compare to conventional stiff suspension of 7th Gen civic..due to yoko DB tyres, accord is absolutely quite,...As a whole accord is much more comfortable then 7th gen civic.yes one imp thing that is fuel consumption, i just noted a few days back thte exact milage i am getting from exi on long route at 110-120 km/h is 10-11 km/l but when i went to islamabad from attock b back throug motorway the @ 90km/h it gave me an amazing average of 16.3 km/l...(Local 50 km and long 120km)..accord gives from attock to isb and back @90-100 km/h only 9km/l at maximum. On CNG civic with 55 cylinder gives 210 km on long and accord with 60 cylinder gave 232 km on GT Road from attock to lahore route, (all without AC, as i calculated in this winter), about acceleration. you can say tht pick of accord is a lil more then city 2005 1.3 but less then 7th gen Exi, BTW once i got out of my accord and get in to city 2005 (55k km driven) and its seats were looking just like PHATTA...lol...i ll post the pics n i delibrately not attached the engine pay pics caz it was and is dirty caz i very seldom wash the engine bay...i dont want to keep trying to start my car after engine wash at service station :P...