Get a second hand manual swift sport if you want pure driving pleasure

TopGear's Ford Fiesta review. Different but a very nice review.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e7R3y-qwZ0

This post has been edited by EightPhantomz: Oct 27 2010, 09:19 PM

the onli 1 prob is ....the resale value

You want resale value go buy UMW Toyota share, sure go up and giving you dividend periodically.

Any common car, be it a Toyota value also drop, if a car second hand value is so good why not the buyer just get a new one since second hand car loan comes with higher interest rate?

A check on Mudah show that Swift Sport 2008 is selling at 75-80k region, quite fair for a 2 year old car which was selling at 94888 that time

Ur 'tat' time was fully imported CBU...its now CKD

if u wan to compare resale value,y not chk out 03 vios price and kia spectra 03 price...both of the car price were almost same when launched

If you talk about resale value.. buy house better.. XD

Anyway, this car value won't plunge like Skoda la..

house doesnt mean sure got high resale value...depending a lot on the location and future development to the area
if u know ambang botanic klang...the semi d new were 700k 2 years ago...now it fetches up to 1.3mil

but come place...lousy developers,the whole housing area 'tenggelam' due to lousy piles or watever tat doesnt meet engineer demand...get those house n be rdy to stay there for life if wont turn rich for the rest of the life

but back to car again...seriously lots of ppl think of resale value 1st b4 buying it..tats y u see more toyota o honda dominate our streets than other car maker..

There was never a CKD 1.6L Swift Sport , all CBU Japan

if you know who tiff needell and jeremy clarkson is...they both said that the swift SPORT is immense fun and tiff needell said that it was his favourite warm hatch and more fun than a fiat 500 abarth...so why are you shocked?

since he mentioned that if wana a pure driving then get a swift sport...

sry ya...i noob bout car 1...

When we talk about resale values we always talk about a min 5-7 yrs. Do not compare with 2-3 yrs. I think all if not most cars experience a similar percentage of drop in the first 3 yrs. Even a Toyota drops about 23% in the first 2 yrs. But if u wanna know which car has better resale value then look at the 5 yr sale figures. Thats when u will start to see the difference.

For instance, a Hyundai Sonata 2.0L 2003 model only sells for about RM 28K as compared to its original sales price of RM 119K back in 2003. A Toyota Vios 1.5E 2003 sells for RM 45K as compared to its original sales price of RM 74,700 back in 2003. See the difference in percentage of drop?

Exactly! Resale values must always be compared for cars a minimum 5 yrs old not earlier.

Swift Sport is nice NA car for Peksan..but price is

I haven't driven Fiesta yet, so hard to know whether it's on par with Swift Sport or not.

This post has been edited by Notoriez: Oct 30 2010, 04:05 AM

planning to get one next year
went to the show room inspected the car
everything nice and feel solid

just tested the car (full spec)... somehow the engine sound rather loud when i press on the paddle. the auto transmission only switch to second or third gear when it roughly punch to 3.5k rpm ... is that normal? the sales person told me it is air flow that cause these annoying loudness ...

Difficult to say as the engine has not been 'run in' yet. But good point to pick up during our test drives.

the ckd i'm saying is swift...dont compare tis model to swift sport bcoz..simple...look at the price range...y not u compare tis to ford focus rs

This post has been edited by fedoracore: Nov 2 2010, 06:37 PM

I have done 700km on my Fiesta now... Wanna ask if anybody has any experience in running in engines?

The service manual says the oil change 1st interval is at 10,000km...
I have heard that new engines must have the 1st engine oil change at 1,000km then only can bantai the car...

Any thoughts on this guys?