[Blue07CivicEX]

One of the big reasons I went with the civic was for reliability, gas mileage and I wanted something that was fun to drive. Now that I drive more conservatively I am getting 40+ with my 140hp civic, but on the off day I want to drive like a maniac (today being one of them, crappy day and driving fast blows off steam for me call it a relapse if you want) I still have that 140hp that I can go 0-60 in the blink of an eye (ok maybe 3-4 blinks but still not too bad). If there was a US made car I felt I coud rely on and had the same performance I'd MUCH rather buy US but frankly with all the tranny issues that were seen in the 90's and early 2000's I don't trust US cars for getting me to work and home for 200k miles.