Just to stir things up a little:

http://www.honda.com.au/wps/wcm/conn...Quality+Survey

Civic scored well. When you design something brand new like the 8th gen civic your going to get minor flaws that are un-seeable on paper and are only really recognizable after thousands of examples are released to the public. The 8th gen will eventually get a series 2 and from there quality will improve.

On a side note, the new commodore is having a fair few problems too, all new design, all new problems they hadnt faced before in previous editions.