This car is hot. That's all I can say. It's damn sexy. No, I haven't bought it because I'm very thorough and I'm still doing all my research, but it's a Mazda 3 - and I wasn't really that excited about owning a new car until I stumbled across this little gem - which is cheaper than both the Civic and the Corolla and is also much sexier. The main drawback - and the thing that's holding me back - is the gas mileage. It's decent - at 28 mpg in the city and 35 mpg on the highway. But that doesn't even compare with the Corolla, which gets 41 mpg in the city and 31 mpg in the city. The Civic is in between those two.

Gas mileage is the only thing I really care about - I hate buying gas, I hate oil companies, I hate gas stations, I hate everything about the whole oil/fuel industry. So I like to avoid it as much as humanly possible by buying a car that's not a gas pig. That really has been my only concern ... that and the cost. But then I drove the Mazda 3 and I started to feel weak. I mean, sure, it's more of a gas pig, but it's not tooooo bad, right? I don't know. I'll probably obsess about it for a few weeks or so before I decide which car to buy.