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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 3420688" data-attributes="member: 5868">Are you an enthusiast, or just looking for reliable transportation?If the latter, edmunds.com and Consumer Reports are a great starting point.  Definitely use the Edmunds.com method of using the internet to get dealers to bid for your business -- it has worked great for me for the last three cars I've bought.If the former, I'd recommend also going to enthusiast websites and reading up on their forums.  For example, <a href="http://www.vtec.net" target="_blank">www.vtec.net</a> is a great forum for general Honda info (and lots of Civic stuff in general).  You'll find a lot of good & bad that you might not otherwise from reading forums.Both cars are solid.  Honda has a well-deserved reputation for reliability, and I've found that their ergonomics are some of the best in the business -- an experience I haven't had with Nissans.  But I'm admittedly biased, as I now own 3 Hondas.  Don't forget the Mazda 3, VW Rabbit, and Toyota Corolla for comparable in-class cars (*maybe* the Chevy Cobalt, though their quality is pretty hit-or-miss, and depreciation is horrendous).  Ironically, the best car-shopping advice I've ever gotten, though, has been: don't ever buy a car you can rent at a car rental counter. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />If you're an enthusiast, though, I'd recommend the Civic Si, Mazdaspeed 3, or VW GTI.</blockquote>

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