Honda Concerto (1993) – Enthusiast Wanted

After the second generation of the Honda Civic, the five-door hatchback version disappeared from the range. There was a five-door version of both the third and fourth generation Civic, but that was the high Civic Shuttle. Those who preferred a regular five-door could not get a car with the Civic name on it. At the threshold of the 1990s, Honda pushed forward another car for those customers that, incidentally, shared its basis with the fourth Civic: the Concerto. Honda positioned it a bit higher in the market, no doubt looking for a little more margin. An approach that it soon returned to, because the sixth Civic came with a five-door that was just called Civic again. Furthermore, the Concerto was a brother of the fourth Civic, but it largely coexisted with the fifth generation Civic. That certainly didn’t really help him.

So it was a bit of an odd man out, that Concerto, but that certainly doesn’t make it a bad car. The Civic could convince at the time with its sharp lines and especially on a technical level, in that respect it was good with the slightly more conventionally lined Concerto. However, the Concerto bumped a bit behind the Civic, so the freshest was already a bit off. We got the Concerto, which was built in England for the European market and had a British cousin in the Rover 400 series, with a 1.5 and a 1.6. The Concerto was well endowed with both engines, with the 1.6 the Japanese could even be called quite smooth. The Concerto we have here in front of us has the 90 hp 1.5 in its nose.

Honda Concerto

It is a nice and modest Concerto, with its red paint, black bumpers and hubcaps. It also looks quite austere on the inside, although the Concerto does have a sliding/tilting roof! That’s nice then. The consumption meter on the left of the dashboard naturally does not belong to the factory and looks a bit provisional, with a bit of luck it can be neatly removed if you want to make the interior as original as possible. Furthermore, it still looks pretty neat, especially when you consider that the Concerto with 214,000 km on the counter does not necessarily have an exaggeratedly quiet life. Furthermore, rust seems to be absent in any case on the visible parts. In short; a fairly modest but apparently neat Concerto, which has an asking price that fits it quite well: €1,949.