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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nakia" data-source="post: 2239704" data-attributes="member: 25747">My wife has driven a Civic for six years.  She bought it used in 1999 with about 60K miles on it.  We have driven the crap out of that car since.  It now has almost 150K and still runs fine, other than the AC which no longer works.  We love the Civic!I'd go for the 2003 for the following reasons:1.  The new car will drop 20% in value as soon as you leave the lot.  If something wacky happens and you need to sell the car next month, the used one will still be about the same value.  New cars are rarely worth it, IMHO.2.  Since it is a Civic, those 11K miles don't mean very much, since the car is so reliable.3.  All that luxury stuff (sunroof, electric windows, etc) is pretty cool to have.  My wife loves her sunroof (well, I like it a lot, too).Good luck!</blockquote>