Dont worry too much about resale value, we're not talking about a brand new car here, after 5 or so years, car prices here just stay put anyway. Moreso with 1.6li cars,

If you have back issues of buy and sell or whatever, you'll see that the price ranges for these cars (Sentra, Corolla, Lancer, Civic) stayed the same since 98 or so (given the same years used)....

I remember selling my 94 AE101 Corolla for 210K 3 years ago, hanggang ngayon mga 190-230 padin naman ang price range ng 94-95 Corollas eh.