+1

Love the way you put it..

Well for what's its worth, PE put up a 1.8 Inspirated at lobby of Menara Maybank for the past week, only receive 2 orders according to the SA. I guess a lot of smarter consumer out there ...........

I forget to add, PROTON have another wife, a French wife. But what happened to that French wife nowdays? Now just a small concubine after getting back to it's Jap wife?
Just to that, that French wife happened to be mixed with Japanese and British too.

This post has been edited by SleeplessEyes: Nov 19 2010, 11:29 PM

the french wife gave proton it's rally winning s2000 engine.......

The french wife's engine even underwent boob job, lypo and many more man for the Proton S2000 rally

This post has been edited by shinjite: Nov 19 2010, 11:33 PM

from war, we came to love. from love, we came to discussing about war, love, women, german lass & french blonde & japanese GT queens. i just love cars, dont you all do?

in a chassis with independent suspension

when was it?

what
i've only cruised at 180
you're doing 230 leh

after reading so many comments, based on my own observation, i realized some of the pros and cons of both cars now.

Spacious - Forte has bigger inside space compare to Inspira
Driving leisure - Because of the tuning of lotus engine, Inspira should have a better driving leisure in city/highway compare to Forte
Comfort - I guess this one i need to go to test drive the car myself to see which one offers better comfort
FC - Heard from many, and seems like Forte offers more fuel savings (but if i'm going for Forte, guess will wait for the 6 gear auto to come in next year [if they ever come in]). Then again, not a true comparison since forte=1.6 and inspira=1.8.
Resell value - At this moment, hard to say as both cars are relatively new. Have to wait few years and see.
Spare parts - Inspira wins as Kia spare parts tend to be more expensive.
Pickup speed - Seems like Inspira wins, but this is not my criteria, so does not really matter.
Brake system - Forte wins, because Inspira does not have the traction control system.
Safetyness - From both video clips, Inspira looks tougher abit compare to Forte, but then again, I think both also within my expectation.
After sales service - Have unpleasant experience with Proton all the while, till today. But then again, in this thread, I heard that Naza is not much better also.

Well, appreciate most of your comments and feedback so far. It gives me a much clearer picture now on both car choices. Will go test drive soon.

Brake system have nothing to do with traction control. Traction control is a system which ensures no loss in wheel traction when power is exerted to the wheel. On turning corners etc. It will use the brakes to control the power. For brake, abs and ebd should be the one to talk about

both also cruise faster then me

After test drive forte n Inspira at coty2u@matrade, I vote Inspira. Forte nvh very poor compare to Inspira. Road noise very loud.

yep true..one of the main culprit is the noisy stock kumho tires..

Why forte got under compact car segment in autocar car of the year...lancer got into higher segment?

I just came back frm melaka and I was really impressed by the stock soundproofing of the forte..at 140kmh I couldn't hear any wind or road noise..maybe a lil road noise but it's not disturbing..anyways if you guys test drove the forte and says the tyres is noise..check the tyre condition..maybe gonna botak d..

nah..its the kumho tires really damn noisy..i changed to yokohama now no more noise

Really? Hmm weird..maybe my tires still new..lol..how much you paid?

yup...kumho tyres very noisy...but hey...my kumho thread still like new

no surprise. that mean kumho tread is harder hence more noisy, just like those sime tyres