DudewithaLude

I really don't see how buying a civic automatically makes you a ricer. To me, rice is about what you do TO a car and the attitude towards the car, not WHAT car you own.

Like Wsteun said, I also don't get why so many people hate the civic. Yes, there are people that rice out the car, yes, it has somewhat of a bad rep; but it's got honda reliability and gets great mileage. Heck, with the money you save in long term and short term costs you can get a subtle/tasteful kit to go with the car. I guess if you can afford to worry about being grouped in with ricers then you can worry about being grouped in with a sterotype.

In my opinion, I'd sell the prelude and get an inexpensive, reliable car, like the civic; base or SI, whichever fits your budget the best. If you're working on your education in college there are better things to have to worry about than getting a car fixed, and then hoping that it won't go wrong on you at a bad time.