I'm 90% sure my choice for my daughter's first car will be a Honda Civic. My budget is 11K. I need some input. Obviously low milegae on the newest year model possible is what I want. However, I want to know where the trade off point should be. I don't think I want to go below 2005 but if I found a really low mileage 2004, would that be a good trade off? What are your thoughts?

 

You say obviously you want newer and low miles.
I bought two 2006's for my daughter.
I look for newer with HIGH mileage. I would take a generation 8 with 80,000
miles before a gen 7 with 40,000. Civics go 300,000. My old civic is tight as can be at 200,000. miles..
for $11000 you can get the generation 8 ( 2006 or newer ).


oh, to answer more specifically ,,, 04 and 05 are generation 7. so it makes no differance. same body.

 

Thanks for your comments. That was very helpful. So I'll look start looking for a GEN 8 (2006 or higher).