Which is best overall?
Why Corolla is always a tad higher than Civic ?
In the past Honda transmissions were trash, IDK if they've improved.
Civic has bigger interiors among all the cars listed in the poll.
Civic breaks more, rusts faster and has worse front shield angle (all that based on older models - no experience with recent models)
The Mazda will have the best driving dynamics, but probably worst mpg. Corolla likely best reliability, Elantra/forte (same platform) best price, Honda most fanboys from Mexico. Depends on what you prioritize.
Hyundai makes really great cars, our Tucson was flawless and the new ones are really nice.
As a balanced package I would pick Civic as the first and mazda3 as second
Prius
So nice but there's a 7 month wait list to buy one 😩