Top Safety Pick Too! - The 2016 Honda Civic

The dynamic, new-from-the-ground-up 2016 Honda Civic Sedan, 2016's North American Car of the Year, has received the highest available rating of TOP SAFETY PICK+ from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), including a SUPERIOR rating for frontal crash prevention when equipped with the Honda Sensing™ suite of safety and driver-assist technologies, available on all 2016 Civic Sedan models.

Total Cost of Ownership Revisited - What have you missed?

While the most obvious expense component in purchasing a car is the price of the car. It may not be the most important. That's why the dominant message in most car ads is "PRICE". Of course there are other costs that one should consider prior to purchasing a car. Not so intuitively obvious. These costs are often found in the small print. You'll find Taxes, Registration costs, and miscellaneous fees, dealer installed equipment, items that also contribute to that bottom line purchase cost.

Many Items to manage

In the long term there's that concept of total cost of ownership. Cost items like maintenance, insurance, depreciation, fuel cost, also contribute to that figure, not just the price of the car. Indeed even if you pay your car off early you will continue to be paying depreciation, maintenance, etc.

Here is a list of Cost of Ownership elements:

MSRP
5-year Retained Value
5-year Depreciation
5-year Maintenance
5-year Repair Cost
5-year Fuel Cost
State Fees
5-year Insurance

The most elusive element of any car deal and the likely the most overlooked element is the cost of money.

That Built In Garage Door Opener - How To

If  your new Honda is equipped with 'Homelink' there's a backstory to that feature found in a single company that owns and stands behind that technology.

What Is HomeLink?

HomeLink® is the world’s most widely trusted and used vehicle-based wireless control system. It conveniently and safely enables you to open and close your garage door or front gate, activate and deactivate your home’s security system, or turn on or off your interior and exterior lighting, appliances and electronics. All from three buttons, smartly integrated into your automobile’s interior.

Sometimes so "smartly integrated" as to go unnoticed.

You'll find reference to  HomeLink in the specifications for your vehicle, similar to this:

HomeLink^® Remote System¹⁸

And the footnote will reference the following:

[18] HomeLink^® is a registered trademark of Gentex Corporation.

Here's a link to the Gentex Corporation HomeLink website:

http://www.homelink.com/program/video

You'll find help for most Year/Make/Model cars and trucks and for all the HomeLink functions as shown in the illustration below:

All-New 2016 Honda Civic Wins "North American Car of the Year" Award

The all-new 2016 Honda Civic has earned the prestigious 2016 North American Car of the Year Award. This win for the Civic is the second for the model in the award's history, following a win for the 2006 Civic a decade ago when it shared the stage with the 2006 Ridgeline, winner of that year's Truck of the Year award. In total, eleven Honda models have been named "finalists" for NACOTY awards since their inception in 1994, the most of any brand outside of the Detroit Big 3 automakers.

Ask me why!  Or better yet come in today and drive one.  There's no better way to experience the all-newness of the all-new 2016 Honda Civic.