New forte owner here..
Forte 1.6 SX Clear White 2012 >.>

ya if u can afford get 2.0, i want lower installment, lower road tax, and suppose lower fc in city..so no choice.

rattling noise seems less or gone for newer batch..
maybe just some here and there noise after sometime that will mostly haunt every car regardless of brand.
alignment problem not sure, but mine have no problem with it so far.

no worth to get 2011 model with just RM2K discount; depreciation is more than that when sell it off.

BTW, how forte owner solved the pull to left issue? can be fixed permanently or not? what is the 2nd value when compare with insight?

Anyone knows people that can do car plate? My car is not even 1 year and the car plate in front 1 letter came off... zzzz... The quality of the number plates also kinda crappy..

Already booked P3-21A CFE for my wife..tired of waiting for the Rio to come in. The specs somehow better than my 2.0 Forte except for the 6 airbags, leather seats & EPS..but it quite worth the indicative price of RM75k..for a Proton 70-72k should be an appropriate price for me.

Same like when i booked my Forte last time..just blindly book the car without ever seeing it in real life..lol. No regret buying the Forte though..hopefully this car (P3) will give me the same outcome..will give another chance for Proton this time to prove itself

Yet to know it. In term of specs..yes..Forte is beaten even though we compare it with the full specs of 2.0 Forte (except for the 6 airbags, leather seats, EPS, reverse camera, 17" rims) . Additionallly the P3 got 7-speed pro-tronic CVT, multilink rear suspension c/w stabilization bar, anti-trap power window (driver side), rear fog light, ISOFIX seat mountings, GPS navigator, DRL, auto wipers, follow me home light, in-car Wifi & not to say the all new 1.6L turbocharge engine with 140PS & 205Nm of torque from 2000-4000 rpm (Forte 2.0 got 156PS & 194Nm of torque @ 4xxx rpm as comparison)..quite impressive i must say.

But in term of car performance & built quality..still in question. Anyway, i have test driven the Exora Bold that wearing the same 1.6L turbocharge engine & i can feel that the 'pull' is strong enough for an MPV..so i can easily conclude than this engine is more than capable to 'pull' the P3 even better (smaller & lighter car) & i have a strong feeling that this car will accelerate as good as my 2.0 Forte if not better...

I don't think so la. What can an air filter possibly do to your car? :S Some more this one higher quality one. Unless we didnt clean the filter according to schedule ourselves (because SC can't clean it for us anymore)..

I'm going to SC tmr for some touchup on my car. Will ask the people there Update you guys when I got the answer

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