it depends on how much you are intending to mod either one. if youre going to get the car and not mod it at all, then the subaru sti would kick ass every single time, but you'd be better off getting an evo. however if youre going to mod the shit out of the car and want to run 9's with it, you would want the civic, but youre going to get beat by any evo with more than 3,000 in the engine.