I bought a 99 Civic LX the other day as a second car, just a beater to get back and forth for work, previously me and my wife just had the sonic so we decided to buy a used 99 Civic. Man is it sloooow lol. My sonic would eat that Civic alive lol. But I do like driving the Civic just because I can feel what the wheels are doing through the steering wheel and it doesn't have digital anything so it brings back memories of driving older cars. But hands down the Sonic wins on everything else handling, power, comfort. I may slap some wheels and lower the Civic that's about it. There's no point in doing anything to the engine because its so weak, unless I swapped the engine or turbo'd it but meh i'll just make it look good without ricing it.