Today's modern cars specially Germans are designed to auto adjust to environmental factors including bad fuel up to certain limits.
Their system is intelligent enough to adjust itself accordingly.
Turbo civic seems unable to do so due to its very limited tolerance range, hence they have to apply the fix in the firmware. May be they would be retarding the ignition timing but who knows !!
So what i see the real problem is the fuel and inability of the Turbo Civic to tolerate it. So the fuel has already been upgraded to 92 Ron which did not solve the issue now they are re-tuning the ECU to cope with local fuel standard.
And it seems these experiments will continue until we find a stable product. Shame on Atlas for giving us a pre-mature and untested product and getting the basic testing done by consumers time and money.
And unfortunately this wont stop, as we are willing to buy what ever Atlas produces.
Apart from this any one like me who have to use this car as "family car" with no intent to race to me only charm and logic of buying a Turbo car would be to have a latest technology which runs efficiently. Unfortunately if i have to pay extra on fuel to do so then there is no more efficiency.
i would go for Turbo eye closed only if:
1. It runs flawlessly on any fuel available on any pump.
2. I don't have to pay extra on fuel cost.
Since this is not the case my only choice is to go with 1.8 Oriel.