The interest rate given to me is 2.8%

Hong Leong... loan for 7 years.

When I booked the car at Power of 1, I received a letter from proton shortly saying that my car will be delivered tentatively on May 2012.

Interest/bank/years/loan amount :

2.8%/hong leong/7 yrs/60k

this is based on trading in my saga BLM.... but now, I have second thought to trade in my merce e240 instead since I want some cash and to reduce maintanence cost of the merce.

ohh yea.... the banker told me the 2.8% is islamic financing and for conventional it will be slightly lower ~ 2.79 or 2.78%

I think, its more to do with malaysian driver mentality. They like to revv all the way hoping that the car will go faster... and they are happy chasing or come very close to the car in front with the mindset to tell you to get lost or move away (aka `cucuking'). Sometimes I don't know what behaviour to associate with this kind of driver .... ego ?, rush ? angry? .

This behaviour quite contrast with UK driver for example. You hardly seeing any car come close to you and everybody seems to take their time and more considerate on the road.

Reading this thread, I can see the mentality to tekannnnn for the sake of to utilize the turbo function or maybe to show off.

In Malaysia, the car will tailgating you even though you are trying to overtake another car ! They will not wait until you finish overtaking and move back to the inside lane. The considerate rule is simple, when the car in front is giving out signal indicating he/she is going to overtake, just wait a while and keep a distance until the car finish overtaking, then you can revv up again just like in this youtube.

another thing malaysian drivers or asian drivers (bar Japan) are lacking is courtesy to give way and courtesy to say thank you. In UK for example, if you turn the indicator indicating you are going to overtake, the car on the fast lane will slow down and let you overtake first and that car (the car that do overtaking) will respond back to say thank you by so many ways.... some will just raise up the hand on the rear view mirro enough for the back driver to see and some will flick the hazard light twice to show his gratitude. Even the lorry driver do the same (flicking hazard light or playing signal indicator left and right alternately).

In Malaysia, if you turn the indicator to overtake, the car on the fast lane will never allow you go and sometimes you have to wait very very long until you got fed-up and change the lane anyway (albeit dangerously).

Maybe its me.... hahaha. just kidding.

But I always wave my hand to say thank you and use the hazard light (twice blinking) to say thank you. I'm not sure whether the other car undestand or not what I was doing when blinking the hazard light... hehe

I agree. your driving style is a factor to the fuel consumption.

Anyway, if I'm not mistaken, preve has two types of fuel consumption meter reading... one is average (the l/km is updated over several interval) and another one is real time (the l/km is updated realtime), so.. come 16th April, test drive and check the FC on various driving condition.

I love the style of the interior.... simple but elegant. I hate fancy interior as I hate curvy exerior. current korean cars outdone the exterior with so much curves..... ugly.

for the roomy and spacious, I beleive this car is spacious than merce C-class.... C class is so cramp with less room (legroom, headroom any other room room).

I believe the positioning ligh or follow me home light is similar with 10 years old merce e-class where the light will stay on for about 20 - 30s after locking the car at night and the light will switch on as soon as we unlock the car remotely to guide the walking path.

as for keyless entry or keyless go in 10 years old merce E-class... i think it is a nice feature to have but it can cause the problem with thieves around.

Good start for a global car from proton.

I think DRL (introduced by Audi) is more on cosmetic feature rather than safety feature. Car is big and not small like motorcycle that need headlight to be noticed...

fog light is for safety especially during foggy day (foreign countries) and heavry raining day (Malaysia) as it is very bright. Malaysian should use fog light instead of hazard light during heavy rain.

Its quite subjective.

I love the interior.... to me, its so much better than the japs and the koreans.... I like simplicity therefore like the interior.

German marques also have this kind of simplicity (except BMW).

So, its not a problem to be a global car.

totally agree with this. Me too like minimalist and simplicity.... even the living room must be minimalist. I think the european marques have the same minimalist concept...

The merce feature is same with follow me home light... the merce call it convenience features (with some other features) and the convenience features can be set off or on and the timing also can be set.

I think it is subjective.

To me , I don't like koreans and japs interior. Preve interior much better than them. Have you seen camry interior ? I hate it very much.

My friend just bought hyundai sonata 2.0...aghhh the interior is so fancy like a toy... I don't like it.

I think, preve interior is more like contis....

I strongly believe it is due to the camera.



This post has been edited by ahaks75: Apr 14 2012, 11:01 PM

This is also same for the exterior. Some cars, the exterior still look good even after 10 years (merce w211 is one of them)

I think, the more fancier the quicker it will look outdated.

I like google map navigation (used on Android phone)...the coverage is good, the alternative road to avoid congestion is good and with the new features of highlighting the congestion area makes this navigator superb.

since the car comes with wifi (4G), it is not a problem to have google map navigation.

until today, I still can't stand the koreans. I counldn't find quality in them.

DSZ presentation seems like steve job...and the father of proton (Tun M) receive huge applause from the audience.

Some of the sample dashboard designs shown during the presentation look very very nice...