I will personally choose viva. The price almost the same but because of the brand, i will choose viva. Yes, i'm quite anti-proton person because i faced many problems with proton's car. I'm not a fan of cars. No offence

Just 2 questions. Which Proton model (and year) u drove and have you own another different brand of car for nearly the same duration(years)?

Did you know VIVA has so many issues with the brake problem initially? (Now i'm not sure).

And for 40k....hell i'll buy a Persona or Myvi or BLM...so many choices.

You'll only be able to get the base line versions of Persona and MyVi with 40k though.
Base line for Persona already cost 45k.

This post has been edited by Andrew Lim: Jul 6 2009, 04:36 PM

Baseline anything > VIVA premium.

im looking for Savvy... but all of my frens said that their part is very expensive...

i choose savvy manual bcos powerful n low fuel consumption...mmost importantly, 2nd hand price is cheap..

any savvy's owner to share with us?

Savvy...very nice....

both car also forget it
viva is so overprice and savvy maintenance will cost you a bomb in the long run

Savvy get the manual transmission, the maintenace myth is on the AMT only.

What expensive...just stay away from the AMT version and you'll be fine. Savvy maintenance is every 10k or 6 months...cheaper than Perodua which is 5k or 3 months. (If you are getting 2nd hand, just follow the mileage).

Using a Savvy for 2 years now...only small small problems only.

Savvy > Viva anyday.

Today my friend who drives a Toyota innova sit in my car with 4 of us inside, going up the LDP Motorola flyover. He was suprised that the Savvy is so powerful.

Yeah Savvy's powerful. Savvy featured on 5th Gear beat 2 other cars for hill climbing. Too bad no automatic version (weird AMT doesn't count) and costs more than a Saga (ignore Lite version), otherwise it'll be more popular.

Prolly due to the engine and also the gearbox that made it's price higher.

Automatic is for sissies who can't drive. Real Men drive Manual™. Anyway, kingsing is looking for a Manual. Yeah it cost more than a Saga. It also sucks less fuel than a Campro 1.3 while giving more power.

Popular? Who cares. Just because it's popular doesn't means it's better. If go by popular, Myvi will be best car in Malaysia. (btw, Myvi is a good car, but not a driver's car...but it still beats a VIVA anyday....my other car is a Mawi. LOL.)

Kingsing: If you're around KL/PJ. Take the potential Savvy to RS Auto for a check up before you buy. They're Savvy expert.

This post has been edited by Matrix: Jul 29 2009, 05:51 PM

Real Men Drive Motorbikes Without Helmets
Automatic is for sissies, but many people who buy small cars are girls. So they're losing out on the female demographic.
Popular who cares? Proton cares lor haha.

LOL yeah must make that face when you're on the bike going at 1XX+ km/h

Savvy
+ fun factor
+ handling & stability
+ solid drive
+ smoother engine (4 cycl vs 3 cycl)
- Proton reputation
- Renault sourced engine
- subjective looks
- resale value
- AMT maintenence

Viva
+ resale value
+ slightly better maintenence
- handling (its a city car)
- loan interest

Both cars r very frugal on fc in their respectable class (different cc), so no point comparing which in better in this segment. Fittingquality r also down to earth for both.

My Savvy manual has reached mileage 150k. For the past 5 years it travels 96-100km per day. Currently much less as I moved to another place nearer to the workplace.

Currently spent about rm100-150 ke service change at 10k using semi-synth oil. Change front wheel 3 times (botak + puncture). Change ignition coil once (rm400). at the moment touch wood. Internals sounds ok no new krik-krik sound, and everything seems to be in one piece still.

Viva at 30k already mau runtuh with rattling sounds at any speed.

The semi-autobox is reliable if you know how to drive them. Meaning that to change gear you will need to ease off on the gas just like changing a manual.

biggie: You own both a Savvy and a Viva?

May i ask where u change the ignition coil? Proton SC or outside? And at roughly how many km you change it? Thanks.

im driving my aunt's 9yo wira 1.5m... basically not much problems, except those well-known problems like jarum-jarum's (fuel indicator etc) loh... what else? basically everything is great i would say.

no offense too~ ^^

btw, im too thinking whether to get a viva or savvy for myself... since that wira belongs to my aunt, i would prefer to have a car for my own loh... ^^

prefers savvy for everything. was thinking about the amt one, but since everyone says its kinda sucks so i think i will stick to the manual one perhaps... hehe...