Domestic cars nowadays are crap. The only good domestics are the classic muscle cars of the '60s and '70s. Today, domestics are made of plastic, get really shitty gas mileage, ridiculously overpriced, and perform no better in a crash test than a paper plane. Imports are safer, cheaper, and get way better gas mileage. A stock Civic is an all-around good car. A riced-out Civic is just a piece of shit.