Quote Originally Posted by estis fatuus
People usually only resort to calling a car by a chassis code when there's an enormous number of variants of the car wearing the same name, like the Civic hatchback line up over the past like what 20 years? EF, EG, EK, EP, it's just easier to designate the car by it's chasis code so it eliminates to guess work in what generation of the car is when someone says;

guy 1: "I've got a Civic..."
guy 2: "Oh ya? what kind?"
guy 1: "Si"
guy 2: "Coupe or hatch?"
guy 1: "hatch..."
guy 2: "that's cool, what year?"
guy 1: " '03 "

It's easier just to say "I've got an EP."


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ok, now is this tha point of view that your talkin to someone online, over the phoen or what...im sure if their in person, they get the idea....now, again lets take into example that persons knows nothin about cars so thats why they ask, you tell em you got an EP...you just started a whole new wave of questions.