for that budget, i rather get a myvi over the civic eg. no matter what, a myvi is still a new car, new car smell, new engine, new seats, new etc. an EG is probably 10 years or even older. can you imagine how much better condition will the EG be over the myvi? no doubt honda has better quality parts over perodua but due to ageing, the parts will get old and spoilt too. the same goes to the engine. lets face it, after 10 years of running, the engine probably needs an overhaul and more or less a couple of hundred bucks needed to maintain the car every month. besides, u won't know the condition of the car if its 2nd hand. i think a fairer comparison would be between a brand new myvi and a 1 year old getz or aveo.
in all honesty, i do think perodua is the better car manufacturer between proton and themselves. proton is a bit of a stale company, they need a massive push if they were to survive the next 10 years. in other words, they need a revolution in their management. perodua is more of an evolution, taking small improvement steps. no doubt the early days kancil was a bit of a shame but if u look at their current car lineups and the improvements they did to their car over time, i do think they're improving. the newer kelisa's and kenari's are pretty decent without any major problem. unlike the blardy waja which still has that stupid window and glovebox problem despite claiming european standards. while saying this, i'm also aware of the 'first batch syndrome' whereby first batch cars normally are testing grounds to find out niggling problems and so forth. so potential myvi owners better be warned.
saying this, i'm not trying to be a patriotic citizen but before we go all out with our guns blazing towards national cars, we should give them second thoughts. personally its quite funny reading comments made my some of us here on how much myvi looks like so and so manufacturer. comments like proton/perodua are copy cats are plain naive and baseless. i can agree if you're talking about the older wira/saga with the lancer models. but cars are still cars, i mean they can only design this much on a new car, so very obviously most cars bears similar resemblance between each other nowadays be it a benz or a bimmer or a skoda. just because the front of perdana has that V shape, it doesn't mean they copied alfa. the most bizzare one i heard is that the front of waja looks like renault. why don't we just say the new bentley continental gt copied the old e class mercedes(big small eyes). or the back of the new toyota camry was copied from the E46 3 series.