i own a repair shop,and Honda changed the base models a lot from that time,they added more standard features on all of them,they did this for a few years without having to raise the price of them,,that is one main reason Honda got to be so popular they offered more for less money,and to this day there still adding newer features at or barely above cost to the consumer,that's helping sale a lot of Honda,s,good luck i hope this help,s.