Well, here is the replacement for the Civic.
A 2016 Mazda3 GS Sky hatch with 66k kms. The car was listed for $15 900, and the only haggling I did was to get them to throw in a set of new Blizzak WS90's on steelies.
Oh, yeah, and it's a manual.
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I'm chuffed. A Mazda3 has been a bucket list item for me ever since they came out with the 2004 generation. Compared to the Civic, it's SO much more vehicle, four years newer, with less than half the kms. For $5k more. It's not that the 2012 Civic wasn't nice - it was perfectly fine - it's just that the Mazda3 is SO much nicer. It drives better, has more power (and is more fuel efficient), looks nicer, and has a better interior.
My RV savings have been depleted, though. Ah well, this wasn't the time to buy an RV anyway. Prices are waay inflated. In the couple of years it takes for them to come down again, I'll have money saved up.