u can get the figure for forte when 100% on highway.. speed 90-120

I am not defending the govt for imposing tax.

The fact is that when I meet my friends in other country. They still blame their govt or their policy where their current car got no value at all.
Lastly some of them had to scrap their current car and some family own more than 5 cars which also involve cost.

After all there are no country in this world where U can get all win-win situation by owning a car.

bro, dont look to far,just look at singapore..they pay 10 year loan for car u know?

'Extra urban'. Before someone say I am using Chinaman's term.
I have not yet test driven the Elantra before, but from past experience I am able to get 20% more fuel efficiency out of the Sonata and Tucson, I am quite confident I am able to do the same with the Elantra.
Combined, or should I say, extra urban?

The thing about re-education is, you need to apply old knowledge to your 'reeducation'. Forcing people to accept a new thinking without adapting them to their current state of mind is called brainwashing. Before you say I am using the wrong system, you should check back a few pages where I posted a picture of me driving the Tucson at 8.8L/100km. That is the same picture I show to my real life customer whenever the questions of fuel efficiency comes up, they'll then ask how much is that in term of cent/km which I'll then tell.

No point using terms that will only confuse customers, even though it the 'correct' way of saying it.

Same for fuel tank, I always answer in litres, then in $ term if they asked, and I don't go all technical Nazi telling my customer that he or she must use litre capacity and not how much per full tank.

You guys are sure fast to jump to the conclusion that I used the wrong term . I've always used L/100km since... Forever? Same goes for English, if your friend is not fluent in english, do you expect him to speak a perfect sentence before you accept his words?

Yes, i agree. In Singapore may need to pay high tax for buying the new car.
BUT the different is you can get any where in Singapore with public transport, in Malaysia you can't.
If i can chose, i'm don't mind without car if the public transport is convenience for me to office every day.

I don't know how bad is the second hand value ofr used car in those country, but in my opinion if they want to change car every 1-2 years, they need to anticipate a huge loss or otherwise just don't change new car if cannot afford.
If they can buy a good quality car which can last longer at a much cheaper price than here, why they still need to change it after short period. When your car is 7years or older, second hand value is not relevant anymore coz you have bought it cheap in the first place.

In those country their insurance usually cost a bomb, and if you drive a sports car the insurance even crazier

I have a friend with an integra in australia, his insurance cost 1/4 of his car value in the market. He pays 4 years can buy a new car.

In my experience using my family Inokom Matrix and Inokom Getz, their local built quality so far not bad at all. (The car itself is not very good; not the quality)
Same as their BMW CKD which they assemble here in Msia. If it's bad, I dont think BMW will give license to Inokom rite..
I expect Msian version Elantra will be same.

Luckily for me, I had drive wide range of car either it's expensive like Merc/BMW, japanese or cheap car like Kancil that belong to my family members.
What I can say Sime Darby service not too bad either. Much better than EON or Perodua where usually got long waiting period & very busy. It may not good as Honda or Toyota but so far I see their improving.
Few 3S centre are plan to built throughout nation next yr.

About spare part lead time? Maybe U r rite about that.
Any new car usually hard to get spare part. It will hurt U more when U using CBU car or any car that cost more than RM200K when there are not many owning it although it's japanese or german car.
Sometimes it take 1 month, sometimes in take months.
I had experience it before.

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Added on December 28, 2011, 3:46 pmTrue..

This post has been edited by khusyairi: Dec 28 2011, 03:46 PM

good, because they calculate the insurance premium even based on whether you park your car on the roadside.

here the insurance law are so fxxxed up, so when you bang ppl, you can just smile and leave. you talk louder, you win, you wanna claim , go report police la, just like that.

Government just trying to artifically suppress the inflation la.. thats y they fix it, well if any case go and claim make sure the insurance company pays for it.

Looking at our fake Consumer Price Index is so depressing, seems like we having less than 5% inflation

+1

I don't understand what you mean by crappy drivetrain on the Optima. In what way is it crap? Pls enlighten me, for as far as I can tell, both the Optima 2.0 Dual CVVT Theta II and the Elantra's Nu 1.8 MPI are setting new standards unmatched even by the Japs.

Your eyes got problem

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This post has been edited by turbocharged: Dec 28 2011, 05:58 PM

This is Korea spec, so don't take everything as it will be.

This post has been edited by FluidicSculpture: Dec 28 2011, 09:02 PM

Fluidic, confirmed 1.6 hs no auto cruise?

some jokers here must have damn good connection with these koreans car manufacturers, car yet to be launched but can give opinion about drivetrain.

If that drivetain is made from japan, he will definitely says that its a well developed technology. Just that its fron korea, so...u know what i mean..hehe.

This post has been edited by tressele: Dec 28 2011, 09:59 PM

fuyooh...this fella must be driving expensive car only huh?
but you are right, i think many of us might not be buying after argue so much....isnt thats the point? make sure u really want it before u buy it?

haha.....civic is uncle dugong? look about the same like elantra...saw it in SG.just my opinion.

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Added on December 28, 2011, 10:18 pmhow come so doggy video one? curi curi ? hahaa

hope they give the interface like the one in the video

This post has been edited by Humping^Panda: Dec 28 2011, 10:18 PM

Actually no My stupid ipad casing giving it a spy effect.

By the way, it's 1.8 Nu Engine

This post has been edited by FluidicSculpture: Dec 28 2011, 10:23 PM