Date: 28 May 1981 1110-EDT
From: Steven Clark at CMU-10A
Subject: Car
To: Bob Sproull
Origin:  C410SC60 at CMU-10A; 28 May 1981 1130-EDT
Remailed-To: Harry.Bovik at CMU-10A
Remailed-From: Bob.Sproull at CMU-10A
Remailed-Date: Thursday, 18 June 1981 1050-EDT
Via:     C390RS40 at CMU-10A; 18 Jun 1981 1051-EDT

We have just acquired a Honda Civic about a month ago.  It is a marvelous car!
It will fit four average-sized people comfortably with a small amount of
luggage (overnight bags, e.g.) or you can put the rear seat down and fit two
people with quite a bit of luggage.  The really neat thing is that it is quite
easy to take the rear seat clear out.  Then you have a considerable amount
of room, and the limiting factor becomes the opening to get stuff in and out.
I haven't compared myself, but supposedly the civic has a larger opening than
the Rabbit, although I'm pretty sure my mother's '77 (+- a few years) Rabbit
has a bigger one.
   Come to think of it, though, I can't imagine calling anything smaller than
a Civic or Rabbit a station wagon, so I guess that makes them tiny.
   We bought our Civic used (it's an '80), and an added feature is the am/fm/
cassette player in it.  It comes from Honda; I don't know what particular
option it is.  However, it is excellent as car stereos go.  It hasn't eaten
a tape yet, and we've used it quite a bit.  That's more than I can say for
my tape deck at home.
		-Steve Clark