I would wait out the new job, last in first out. I'd work for a year before I considered a new car, but that's just me. In all practicality of starting out on a new job and had to have a new car in this case I would go with the Civic Si, it's the cheapest and also probably the easiest to sell later for near what you paid for it. Let her pick what she wants not what you want her to have, you'll both be happier in the long run.