This thread should be moved to Car Chat

 

I drive a lot so I do not want to put to many miles on the ISF due to depreciation. That is why I want a daily driver.

 

I had a Mini Cooper S cabrio for about 5 years before I traded it in on my ISC. It was a good car and it was a LOT of fun. Here's my assesment - Mini = better mileage and way more fun to drive / Civic = more reliable and better fit an finish over all. The MINI also has more goodies to make the drive more fun/easier (ie more luxury options).

BTW, ended up selling the MINI because it was starting to have some minor issues.

 

You think you'll save enough in depreciation to pay for an entire additional car (including insurance, registration, taxes, scheduled maintenance, etc) as well as make up for the drop-off in experience spending "most" of your time in a slow FWD civic versus an IS-F?

We may have to agree to disagree on that.

 

Could not have said it any better!

Now if you said you were interested in getting a used (ie. pre-2005) model Civic, that would make more sense.

 

Well the daily driver will be around for a lot longer than the ISF. So I do feel like I will save on the depreciation. I have a 2008 ISF with 16k miles on it.

 

New Civic HF is going to get 40+ mpg.... maybe worth a look

 

My teenage brother had the mini cooper s fully loaded, but totalled it (he had the car for about 1.5 years and has like 15k miles on it and insurance paid out $1000 less of the purchase price, which was like $32k- so I would have to say it holds up it's value better than the civic). My parents bought him a new civic as a temporary car and keep as another spare car for the family after my parents get him a M3 within this year. He definitely misse the mini's sportiness, but lives with it knowing he will only have to put up with it for another few months.