Dang-it! I was afraid of that - but thanks for the answers. Before I bought my Corolla, I drove several other cars in the same class. Yup, that included the Civic. While the Civic had a much more loaded list of advanced features, I didn't like it. It also cost 2K more... although they (Honda) offered me $1,500 more for my truck than Toyota. In the end, I bought the car that I like and fit the best in.
Still, no ABS, MP3 support and no beep when I use my remote! Oh well, I'm happy with what I have.
Geo
I wasn't about to buy a Civic because the new Civic wasn't out yet when I got my Corolla and I didn't want to drive last years model. In order to get a Corolla that had the amount of features that a Civic EX had, I had to special order. While I got ABS, TPMS a sunroof, alloy wheels, cruise, a self dimming rearview mirror with compass and a six disc changer, I still have no beep with the remote, no trunk release with the remote and no MP3 support.
Now the Mazda3 was not a special order and it has side airbags, sunroof, cruise, leather wrapped tilt and telescoping wheel with steering wheel audio controls, 6 disc CD changer, 4 wheel disc ABS and 17" alloy wheels. It also had the added avalibility of Xenon lights, MP3 and Minidisc player, Sirius Satellite Radio and Homelink. It costs a lot more than the Corolla (like 23k verses 19k) and it gets crappy gas mileage. With a 2.3 L engine that makes 160 hp, and the Sport AT I only manage to get 24 MPG highway. In contrast the Corolla gets 38 MPG highway and 28-30 MPG city.
I guess that you have to make a trade off, low price for less feature content and performance but high fuel economy or higher price for more feature content and performance but poor fuel economy.