Strangely enough, I'm like 80/20 my old ass Civic versus my minty 06 RSX Type-S. Never thought I'd be 34 and preferring to drive an 18 year old Civic every day, but it works for me for some reason.
I think it's partly because I just don't have to care as much about where I park. Got bumped with a shopping cart the other day and was pissed off for about 30 seconds, and then said, "meh" and went about my way. I would have been pissed off a lot longer and probably tried to hunt the fucker down if that cart had touched my RSX.