Myvi 2005 launch on 25th May 2005

Myvi SE 2005 launch on 9th March 2007

Myvi 2008 launch on 22th of August 2008

Myvi SE 2008 launch on 10th of October 2008

Myvi Lagi Best (All New myvi) 2011 launched on 16th June 2011

Myvi SE 1.5L (Lagi Best, Lagi Power) 2011 launched on 15th Sept 2011

Myvi Extreme 1.5L (Lagi Best, Lagi Power) 2011 launched on 15 Sept 2011

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Ok here we go. I'll start with some simple pros and cons first for each car.

Myvi Pros
- Its from perodua, expect a high(er) level of QC compared to proton, they follow japanese work style and their service centres are good
- Good FC straight from the moment you get the car, low engine noise level, relatively decent NVH (noise,vibration,harshness) levels.
- Low maintenance, highest I ever paid for maintenance was about 300 + for a major service.
- Power wise, I have only driven 1.0, so I cannot comment much on power, but the 1.0 power is sufficient for city drive but on highways or hill tops, it really is underpowered. Able to go to genting without issues although you have to turn off the aircond and the drive up is really quite painful due to the power to weight ratio of 1.0. I think for 1.3 should not have any issues
- High end myvi has dual airbags, ABS, EBD and also optitron meter panel which is nice.
- Very very easy to drive and park the car.
- NO BOOT LAMP!! This is the drawback to this car although you could DIY, but there's no boot lamp at all. The daihatsu version has it, I have no idea why they didn't add this in.
- Overall good space and legroom even for tall people.
- 4 Power windows
- Has TWO trip meters. The trip meter is useful for checking distances or for calculating FC and you get two in myvi.
- Big center console area and very deep glove box for storage purposes. Big plus for those who like to keep stuff. Also, the storage area at the door is deep enough to fit your touch and go card or car park cards, etc).
- Huge side mirrors. I really liked myvi's huge side mirrors, they really cover a lot of the blind spots and you can see more of the vehicles that are coming from the left or right side of you.

Myvi Cons
- Lousy stereo sound when compared with Saga. The different is HUGE.
- Poor handling on corners due to size of the car and height of it, feel like it wants to tip over.
- On high speeds of 120 KM/H above (i've heard both 1.0 and 1.3 have this same issue, so its not about the engine power), the whole car feels floating and not stable at all, feel very dangerous. The light steering wheel doesn't help either, you have to hold on really tight with both hands at those speeds otherwise you will swerve to other lanes and end up in an accident
- Small boot space compared to Saga, but myvi has 60:40 foldable seats, so that helps a bit, but you wont be able to have passengers at the back seat if you do that.
- Dashboard materials easily get dirty and scratched (my old myvi got some dirt stains that couldnt come out with any cloth or detergent i used).
- Aircond not as cold as Saga's (my colleagues sat in my old myvi before, and then they sat in my saga, they said my new saga's aircond is cold - at the REAR seats). Basically from what I read, saga's aircond distribution around the car is good, even better than the previous version of vios (04/05 version).
- Lousy horn (i call it "chicken" horn). Some may not be bothered with this, but it matters to me, the horn is just too...girlish for me. Sounds like a "polite" way to say "hoi!"....but that's just me.
- Expensive when considering that its a hatchback car, but no doubt its a good quality car with minimal problems.
- Myvi is basically what they call a "butless" car, when in an accident, the damage can be very severe for the passengers as the front and back of the car is short with no protection. Only the front dual airbags can save the front, but what about the back?

Lets move on to saga
Saga Pros
- Good looking sedan car with Audi look-a-like front and mercedes c-class back. You will never be able to find another car that has this kind of look at this kind of price!
- Good stock stereo. I was blown away by saga's stereo when comparing with myvi's, the sound is just so much different even with the stock player.
- Very stable car at high speeds (from what i've been told). I only managed to go up to 120 km/h as I don't want to overstress the car and also I didn't have enough road space, so I couldn't go further than 120. But I can tell you, the car is really really stable.
- Excellent handling especially during corners, I managed to go through some pretty tight corners at 80km/h compared to the SAME corner in myvi about 50-60km/h. Saga feels very stable.
- Good suspension, the place where I stay in has lots of uneven roads, bumps and holes. Compared with myvi, the saga went through all that with relative ease and I didn't really feel them when i'm in the car, compared with myvi.
- Large boot space (415 litres if not mistaken or 55+ durians..haha). Saga has a really large boot if you compare with myvi. However, there's no 60:40 foldable seats, which is a waste because that'll be a great addition.
- Aircond is really cold even on level 1 and the aircond distribution to the whole car is good, everyone in the car can feel the aircond which is great.
- Cheapest sedan car you will ever find in the market. You can get a M/T car for 39000 or A/T car for 41498 with one driver's airbag (m-line spec). Now that's value for money.
- Comparing with myvi, headroom is slightly less but legroom and interior width is more or less same as myvi. That is what my colleagues told me.
- I was initially under the impression that insulation in saga is worse than myvi, but I feel that the insulation (apart from engine noise) is pretty good if not better than myvi (surprising).
- Has a boot lamp! Compared to myvi, saga AT LEAST has a boot lamp. Thank god proton didn't cut this one out.
- Front and back of Saga is much longer than the myvi hatchback, so logically when it comes to accidents, saga is safer DESPITE the fact that saga onyl has single airbags.

Saga Cons
- No ABS,EBD or dual airbags (only single airbag) even at current high spec (m-line)
- High clutch for manual transmission (i'm not sure if I should consider it as a con, previously when I drove myvi, the clutch release is really short, for saga I have to release it at least 80% before I can move the car or switch gears). I'm somewhat used to it now though. The high clutch does however have one advantage - the chances of the "engine dying" is much much less.
- Proton's hit and miss QC issues still plague saga, so far my car is at the moment ok except for the handbrake which when i release it, i have to release it fully properly, otherwise it will go back up a bit, and the handbrake light goes on the meter panel. I've been told that I could just adjust the screw (tighten it) but I have not done it yet.
- I've been told that proton's service centres are lousy (depending on location) and that the maintenance cost is quite high. This is in comparison with perodua cars.
- FC wise I have not been able to fully test as from my understanding, proton cars don't have good FC when come out from factory. Curently my FC is not at all good, I've pumped RM 45 and now my car has already gone 200 KM with only 2 bars remaining (I pumped the RM 45 petrol from shell when there was 1 bar remaining). This is left to be seen.
- Noisy campro engine. The campro engine is really really loud but my colleague who drives a satria neo says he likes the sound, feels more like a man's car.
- Only 2 front power windows and back power windows are old fashioned "pully" type like kancil and kelisa. Back windows don't go down completely due to the design of the car and was touted as a "safety measure" for kids. No issues to me though.
- No optitron meters for current highest spec of saga (m-line). However, I don't mind that and I really really liked the meter panel especially during night time, it has this cool glass-like feel at night. Not sure how to explain this.
- Saga only has 1 trip meter compared to myvi's two. To me, it is fine, but some may prefer two for FC calculation on 1 and the other for calculating distances from places.
- Small glove box and center console area (below single-din player), can't put that many things.
- The storage compartment on the doors in saga is not deep enough to fully cover the touch and go card or access cards. I find this quite irritating at time when i'm driving, there's the sound of the plastic hitting against each other due to this. Myvi's one is deeper.
- Smaller sized side mirrors but sufficient enough to catch vehicles coming

Basically bodykit is just an add-on to the bumper.

The overdrive consists of an electrically or hydraulically operated epicyclic gear train bolted behind the transmission unit. It can either couple the input driveshaft directly to the output shaft (or propeller shaft) (1:1), or increase the output speed so that it turns faster than the input shaft (1:1 + n). Thus the output shaft may be "overdriven" relative to the input shaft. In newer transmissions, the overdrive speed(s) are typically as a result of combinations of planetary/epicyclic gearsets which are integrated in the transmission. In these cases, there is no separately identifiable "overdrive" unit. A number of such transmissions and transaxles are manufactured by Aisin, for use in vehicles produced by many different manufacturers. In older vehicles, it is sometimes actuated by a knob or button, often incorporated into the gearshift knob, and does not require operation of the clutch. Newer vehicles have electronic overdrive in which the computer automatically adjusts to the conditions of power need and load.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdrive_%28mechanics%29
How does ODO work?

Tyre code   Diameter  Circumference  Difference
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195/55 R14  570 mm    1791 mm        -2.23 %
205/55 R14  581 mm    1825 mm        -0.34 %
185/60 R14  578 mm    1816 mm        -0.94 %
195/60 R14  590 mm    1854 mm         1.11 %
175/65 R14  583 mm    1832 mm         0 %
185/65 R14  596 mm    1872 mm         2.23 %
195/50 R15  576 mm    1810 mm        -1.22 %
205/50 R15  586 mm    1841 mm         0.5 %
175/55 R15  574 mm    1803 mm        -1.65 %
185/55 R15  585 mm    1838 mm         0.24 %
195/55 R15  596 mm    1872 mm         2.13 %
175/60 R15  591 mm    1857 mm         1.35 %
205/40 R16  570 mm    1791 mm        -2.18 %
185/45 R16  573 mm    1800 mm        -1.75 %
195/45 R16  582 mm    1828 mm        -0.21 %
205/45 R16  591 mm    1857 mm         1.34 %
175/50 R16  581 mm    1825 mm        -0.29 %
185/50 R16  591 mm    1857 mm         1.42 %
175/40 R17  572 mm    1797 mm        -1.94 %
185/40 R17  580 mm    1822 mm        -0.57 %
195/40 R17  588 mm    1847 mm         0.81 %
205/40 R17  596 mm    1872 mm         2.18 %
175/45 R17  589 mm    1850 mm         1.06 %