• Master Baiter The 10 year maintenance cost should be normalized with respect to the vehicle cost. Of course a $150K Porsche or Range Rover is going to cost more to maintain than a $20K Camry.
  • Paul 175k? Pffft not a chance. A VW with that mileage is an enormous bill waiting to happen.
  • Turbo Is Black Magic Civic Si all the way… it’s the sweet spot of fun to drive, manual, decent MPG’s, no dealer markup BS. Especially in Canada where you can get heated seats.If you are in the US just buy the last gen Si… it’s still a vastly better car than the current one.
  • FreedMike Cheap, fun car. I like it. For what it's worth, good examples of the first-gen models (based on the original Golf) have become collectible and expensive.
  • Ajla I won't rank them because there are too many permutations but if I was actually shopping them odds are high I'd end up with some flavor of Corolla over some flavor of Civic.