I'm interested to follow this. My Civic is going to rust in half one of these days and I will be tempted to replace it with a hatchback Mirage or a Spark. I have been leaning towards the Spark since they are far more readily available around here, and I'd like to be able to find junkyard parts in the future. The Mirage definitely wins in the fuel economy department though. They just don't pop up on CL like the Sparks do, and the one dealer in the area doesn't really seem to care to sell them. We'll see when the time comes.
Interesting to hear of the manual trans failure on the Mirage, although 300K isn't horrible. I haven't seen enough to convince me which car wins the reliability contest - yet. All I know is that I can afford to replace an engine or two in either one and still come out ahead of paying for a Fit, which is unfortunate. You should have many thousands of trouble-free miles ahead of you on your car with such low miles!
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