I've had Civics for daily drivers for years. This time I sprung for an SI with the navigation screen. Honda has risen the cost of the EX so much that the SI was not all that more expensive. The car is a gas guzzler though, the non-SI manual models gets 38 mpg (40 for the auto) while the SI is rated at only 31 mph. (These are hwy mpgs) For comparison a 6-speeed Corvette gets 30 mpg hwy.