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Originally Posted by Ryland
The Civic VX, at least in the USA only came with a 5 speed manual and enough torque from the engine that you can drive on a flat road at 35mph in 5th gear.
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Or lean-burn engine's are also equiped with a manual.
In europe we have a 1.5L (d15z6) with lean-burn vtec-e with a 84,5mm stroke, the US lean-burn VX 1.6L (d16...) got a 90mm stroke so we're missing a bit of torque low down.
Little low down torque in combination with the tall gearing makes it hard to stay in lean-burn while accelerating. (if you not want to create a huge traffic jam)
And for the europian market (as for as i'm aware) there were no coupé civic equiped with a lean-burn engine.
But in all other modells were avalable with the 1.5L (d15z6) lean-burn, thus the hatchback, sedan and the station (called aero)