Oh boy, opinions!

The only thing Teana's got going is the 2.5 V6 engine and its exterior look. Its inside is so ahpek and its rims are the smallest amongst all the D-segment cars. Take away the 2.5 and it's just a sluggish nice-looking car.

Pick the Camry and Accord, for those who always worry about resale value.

For those wanting to be daring abit, go for the Mazda6. Looks stylish, is the lightest and quietest (when idle) car in its segment, complete CBU from Japan, and has more features than the average Camry/Accord. If you're talking about the resale value, the difference in value would have already been negated by the additional features that it has.

But government apparently puts a 75% tax on _all_ cars (and more on top of that on CKD and CBU ones). Including Proton. I mean... how can Proton bring down the price even more? People already complain about poor quality... The car is taxed 75% here, in UK maybe 20% + shipping. So it will probably despite higher specs still be cheaper, just because the government isn't so keen on making money. Get it down to a European level and force manufacturers to not make a single cent more. Then the price would go down a lot, and it really should.

Malaysians do earn less than others, so they should pay less for their cars too. (Same with electric appliances (a noname front loader washing machine (you can't get nonames of this type here) would cost perhaps RM 800-900), TVs (seen a 50" FullHD LG plasma for around RM 2000, but with a bit of effort it was available for 1700. Here that would only get you a HD ready 42" model...), cameras (Olympus E-PL1 is 1799 in shops here, 1000 in Germany), phones (LG Optimus 7 a few months ago RM 650, here just now it was like 1700 when I asked...), ...). Simply not fair at all, especially since they should have higher taxes than Malaysia (19% on almost everything in Germany).

The 2.0 Altis should be compared to 2.0 Mazda 3 and 2.0 Forte. Considering all aspects, which car is the best deal?