howzit guys, i am from South Africa, i belong to a Honda car club call Hondaboys!

i see the EG you guys drive in other countries are different to ones we drive in SA... why is that?

 

I may be wrong and feel free to correct me, but I am going to say they look different because 1) crash and saftey standards and 2) South Africa might have got more/ different modles then the ones for instants in the U.S.

 

Honda Motor Company is spread out across the world and, to a point, are run independantly from Honda in Japan. They also make many of there own designs and combinations of exsisting designs.

A good example of this is the Civic you guys get in SA that comes equiped with a B18B.


Different people making different decisions.


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dude you wudn believ how badly i want an EG from the states... i just had my car resprayed and it was raised for i dont know what reason.. but i will slapping her to the ground again in a week or two... feel free to comment

 

yeah those things really go... down here we call it the 180e...hahahaha i know very funny name for it, my cuz has one it really runs good. they normally make them vtec down here.

 

Why exactly?



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i just love the difference man... for example the bumper and its 2 door... you wont find one them in cape town... i haev never seen a 2door EG in cape town ever... i want to be that guy who has one hahahahaha.

 

Wow, I didn't know that. I see why you want one.


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hahahaha yeah, but hopefully i will be getting my EK hatch soon, it is apparently from the UK, my dad and i are going to check it out tomoro.. it has a B16A2.. did you know the EK hatch comes out with leather interior down here and the seats are way different. I will upload some pics of our cars in the club...

this is my three homeys cars... two 97 model ek's and a FN@ type R... the black ek is a hatch

 

There's a saying here in the US that applies to this topic:

"The grass is always greener on the other side."

Meaning we desire cars found overseas, and some overseas people desire cars we have here. The cars desired might not even be "better" but because they are simply different people desire them. For example people here in The US pay a ton for those EK bumpers with the wrap-around trims. We never got those here. I assume it'd be cool in S.A to drive around with our USDM smooth EK bumpers.

We do not even get the FN CTR here. We never got an EK hatchback with a B series or moonroof (sunroof) or power windows or locks either. Sounds like you guys in S.A never got the EM1 99-00 Civic Si coupe either.

Did you guys ever get the 92-95 Civic hatchback? What about the EE 88-91 Civic Wagon? These are mine:



Off topic:

I'd love to see some World Cup games. I'll be cheering for the Bafana Bafana with Steven Pienaar leading the way. Of course I'll be cheering for our Yanks too...

 

yeah we have received but only few... we have alot of EF sedans... infact my best budd has a white one...and of my homeys has the EF hatch aswel... man i love you EG...

i live less than 1km from Cape town stadium... man you should see this stadium at night... heres a few pics of my homeys hondas...

heres my close friend Paul getting ready to stage, his running b20 vtec and ran a good 14.9 that night.


this is my best budds EF... his running with a nicely worked D16 motor.



and heres my other homeys RED EK.

this is how it looked 2 months ago


and this is how it currently looks.



yeah so we have some nice hondas in cape town aswel lol... heres a link to our Capet Town Honda club (HONDABOYS) forum, with some pics of our hookup we had 2weeks back. or make that two links hahahah

http://www.hondaboys.com/forum/viewt...p?f=52&t=62527

http://www.hondaboys.com/forum/viewt...p?f=52&t=62731

enjoy some African world cup fever lol...

 

There's several countries that never got hatches and even more countries that never got coupes. The sedans were, by far, the more wide-spread model. By that I mean more countries had sedans than any other body style.

Several European countries are like this, as is the Philippines IIRC and South Africa IIRC. I'd have to check my list again to be sure.

The problem with having a coupe in one of these countries is some parts could be very difficult to come by. The good thing is that many parts from sedans or hatches can be used on the coupes still. It'd suck to need new taillights, for example.

 

Pretty cool cars! So theres no 92-95 hatchs in Africa?? Crazy......

 

Looks like those "swirl" style rims on a couple of those EK's are factory? Haven't seen those, that's kinda interesting.

 

that is awesome man.. Ferio love

 

Its funny how you say you love our civics but you have a "love jdm" stcker. Lol

Was your homie with the b20vtec and angel eyes running against a corrado? He lost?

The leather seats on ek's look like eg seats. Well anything is better than USDM ek seats.....they're sooooo uncomfortable/ no support.

Anyways, nice whip keep us updated with the b16a2 you will be getting

 

Interesting.
Usdm ftw!

 

thats a clean *** red 4 door bad ***

 

Honda heads worldwide.

 

im always gonna own a honda. no matter where im at in the world.

 

this thread is awesome. Especially coming from South Africa.

 

That Red 4DR is sexy! zaam!

 

I learn something new everyday on good old HT hahah

didnt even think about how SA hondas are

SADM! hahha

 

i lol'd

 

that red ek sedan is sick...