I'm (window)shopping for a new car myself and I found myself in QAve last sunday looking at Honda, Mazda and Toyota. Sad to say that the cars at Toyota were all locked and was not able to get a good feel on the new Corola and Vios.

Looking at the Civic 1.8V A/T vs Mazda 3 masasabi kong pogi ng mazda 3 sa labas, but the civic has a better advantage on the interior. This will be subject to personal preference so to each his own siguro dito. The mazda has driver side airbag while the Civic didnt. But on terms of fuel consumption mazda claims a 8-10 km/l while the Civic claims a 10-12 km/l. Trunk space was bigger for mazda. The biggest catch with mazda is their whopping discount. They have a 65k discount plus the insurance, reg and tpl are also free. based sa computation ko nakuha from honda, it more or less amounted to a 100k discount...

overall, I am still more inclined to get the Civic because of the superior fuel efficiency and having owned a civic, the durability...

btw : i also saw the new miata... hamfogi...