Kia History:

South Korea's oldest car company, Kia was founded on June 9, 1944 as a manufacturer of steel tubing and bicycle parts by hand — and has operated as one of the country's Chaebols since. In 1952, Kia changed its name from Kyungsung Precision Industry,[9] and later built motorcycles (starting in 1957), trucks (1962) and cars (1974). The company opened its first integrated automotive assembly plant in 1973, the Sohari Plant. Starting in 1986, in partnership with Ford, Kia produced several Mazda derived vehicles for both domestic sales in South Korea into other countries. These models include the Pride (based on the Mazda 121) and Avella, which were sold in North America and Australasia as the Ford Festiva and Ford Aspire.

Hyundai History:

Chung Ju-Yung founded the Hyundai Engineering and Construction Company in 1947. Hyundai Motor Company was later established in 1967. The company’s first model, the Cortina, was released in cooperation with Ford Motor Company in 1968. In 1975, the Pony, the first Korean car, was released, with styling by Giorgio Giugiaro of ItalDesign and powertrain technology provided by Japan’s Mitsubishi Motors. Exports began in the following year to Ecuador and soon thereafter to the Benelux countries. In 1991, the company succeeded in developing its first proprietary gasoline engine, the four-cylinder Alpha, and transmission, thus paving the way for technological independence.

remember inspira's booking stands about 1800 and counting while vios sale per month is 2000

nope not gonna happen

but 1.8manual inspira must be faster than fd2, forte 2.0 and inspira 2.0 right?
because of the manual transmission

that one is for the proposal only by naza to the police, not even final yet, but since pdrm is a big proton fan, i am not surprised if we see a lot of police inspira replacing their old waja 4g18 fleet

somehow xioncity's posting is becoming more and more idiotic these days

so at the lowest end, its between inspira 1.8 manual with more power or forte 1.6ex with more features but with a weak engine

This post has been edited by ben_panced: Jan 17 2011, 09:24 AM

ill comparing cars with the same price point, which is 79k inspira 1.8manual vs 78k 1.6ex forte

dunno ppl who bought inspira got theirs at 3%