I looked at the same cars 2 years ago and found Civic to be a great car when in the mood but not so great when wanting to pootle, plus we really needed a larger car. Scoob was lovelly to drive but not as quick as I was expecting, servicing costs and fuel consumption put me off in the end.
I ended up with a Skoda Octavia vRS in the end, same size as a scooby so practical, exciting to drive (180bhp as standard, £500 remap takes it to around 220bhp which suprises a few scooby owners
) running costs are cheap as servicing is on variable like most of the VAG group cars so it had 1 £200 service in 2 years 20,000 miles.
If your worried about the Skoda badge don't, Milotec do a replacement grill and different badges if you need to replace them and anyway anybody who knows about cars also knows that you just brought a Audi with a different badge on it for a lot less money so who has the last laugh
Darren