Given the price of gas these days and considering they'll only be going up i'm looking at an older honda which in my own experiences are phenomenal on gas. 92-97 civic 4 dr is an obvious choice but I wanted to know if anyone had any experience with the accord wagon 91-93? How good are they on gas? any common mechanical problems I should be aware of? What would you choose if you could own either?

Keep in mind this won't be modified or have any non stock components installed. This will be purely for Daily Driving purposes.

 

I would have to say one of my top three least appealing cars is the accord wagon.
I would go with the civic for ease of access to the parts.

 

Why aren't you going to modify it? There are things you can do to improve your MPG...

 

Just look up the specs on both cars. Google them both and see the difference.

 

only people I have ever seen in accord wagons are either beaners or the really obsessed honda guys.
The wagon just doesn't do it for me.
the 4 door was ok. Decent ride. Wasn't too annoyingly slow or anything like that, but again, not awesome.
I would personally get a late 90's civic long before an early 90's accord.
especially if you aren't planning any modifications.

 

late 90s civic, my 99 civic gets 25+ MPG and well ehh its not reallllllly modfiied. just catback and headers and air filter D: so yeah its my DD and its great and cheap for that, GET ONE accord wagons are as ugly as shit

 

Get the Civic. That is all.

 

CRX wins for gas mileage if thats what your looking for. And yes there are things that can improve your gas mileage. Accords in general never did it for me, I'd get the Civic given these were the only 2 options.

 

what is it, the old crx HF model I think... didn't it get something stupid like 40+ MPG.

I remember reading something a while ago about someone that built one (pretty sure it was a CRX HF, not the SI model, but the other one that had direct injection, not throttle body injection) using junkyard parts and spent no more 1,000 bucks on it. boosted it to "neutral" or whatever it is called. So that the engine wouldn't have to work to suck air in, it was just there.
I remember that car got 55 mpg in the city.

If it wasn't so damn expensive to to own multiple cars, then I would own one of those to take back and forth to work.