Since you will do a lot of in-city runs your primary criteria will be a good fuel economy in the stop and go kind of traffic, good *** and good brand value. Honda gets you all those and more.
Also, since you will run it within the city whenever you will decide to sell it off the chances are your car will be in a much better condition than one which has been run down to the ground with too many long runs and laborious duties. So you would also expect a decent resale value. Trust me, nothing holds its value as nicely as a Honda does