Inspira.

Go and test drive it.

No offense to you, and your preference, but seriously, go and test drive an inspira.

Sure, it has a proton badge to it, but you want advice, right? Just test drive it, no harm done.

There are tons of people who changed from non-proton cars to inspira after they test drove it. Do you think people who bought a 90k inspira has no money to buy non-proton cars? Get out of the old mentality.

New Inspira comes with touch screen GPS. Though I don't like looking at a huge 2-din screen at my dashboard, but that's my own preferences.

I was in the same place as you were last time, I was considering a few cars to choose -:

a) Honda City
b) Honda Civic
c) Ford Fiesta
d) Kia Forte
e) Kia Forte Koup
f) Proton Inspira

I test drove all of it, except for the fiesta. Honda City, was just absurdly underpowered to me, and I felt like driving my Gen 2 while I was test driving Honda City. Funnily enough, the sales person showed me her "Honda City Selling Booklet", and it was written there that the target market for Honda City is young people driving a proton that's upgrading their car. I laughed in my head thinking "This is just the same as my proton, what upgrade?" It was severely underpowered, felt empty and cheap. Though, this is my own opinion, I might have a high standard for a car.

Honda Civic, I fell in love with it, every single part of it, but too bad, the old gen Civic was no longer available, and maintenance on a Civic would be a killer too.

Ford Fiesta, was too small for me. I love the car, but the size was just....and the design is a little bit too girly for me.

Kia Forte - hated the absorbers and the suspension settings. It was too soft. Apart from that, it was good too. But, it lacks the low-end acceleration, and felt a bit slow and sluggish. The evil twin brother Koup, was just, just awesome. Was about to get the Koup, but a 2 door car, is not really that practical.

Inspira - This will be a biased review, as it is my preference and I love the inspira.

It's a 10 sec car. With a huge-ass body like that, it can go from 0-100 in 10 sec. So, it's fast. Went for a test drive, the sales person sitting next to me kept telling me to floor the pedal. Take corners without braking, go high speed in corners and trust the car.

I did. And the car could turn corners at 80-100 km/h, easily. If you want a civilized car, that could give you a very comfortable ride cruising at around 100~120km/h, you'll fall asleep driving the inspira. No kidding, I travel from JB-KL-JB every month, and I have always find myself dozing off cuz it's too comfortable. You want a car that can bring the "dark" side out of you.....well, just rev it up to 4k RPM, and you'll fly. 200km/h, easily achievable. Though, take note that the stock tyre's maximum speed is only 210km/h, any faster, you'll probably burst it (Conti CC5 tyre, comfort tyre, not for hardcore driving).

A fair bit of a warning here, if you drive like a madman, Inspira will drink your fuel like an alcoholic. Drive it normally, the FC is average. If you want a car that does 700km per tank, get a myvi or kancil, not an Inspira.

Maintenance, around 200 per servicing if you use semi, even 5k km. Use full syn, around 300 per servicing every 10k km. Spare parts are easily available as there are an abundance of Inspira/Lancer on the road.

But at the end of the day, test drive, all your car choices. People can only tell you so much based on their experience. I went on my car hunt and was dead set on getting a Civic/Koup, I was even willing to go all over Malaysia looking for a Civic that would be available, but that was befoe I test drove Inspira. Inspira was the last car I test drove (since my parents told me to give it a shot), so I did, and I couldn't be bothered with Civic/Koup anymore.

Test drive the cars yourself.

Fiesta is a good car, from what I have heard and from reading up on other people's experience, but it was just too small for me. BUT, it's true, finding parking with my Inspira is a pain in the ass, especially if you're in a shopping mall.

Nimble and agile, come to the Inspira club's TT every friday, and we'll teach you the definition of nimble and agile. You'll be amazed at what these people do to their Inspira and how they drive it.

I swear to god, I thought I was a crazy driver, zig zagging all over the place, but these people....they hit 140 km/h on normal city roads. No shit.

On paper and specs, Preve is a better choice, if you're only looking at the specs, not the design or the fit and finishing. I test drove Preve, it drives the same, if not, better than the Inspira. But I don't like the design. It's just fugly to me.

Hahaha, I went to Inspira TT, and my wallet didn't koyak. You need strong anti-body to resist all sorts of poison there. They'll give you craps from adding a tiny tweeter to your car to shits like remapping your car's ECU to adjustable suspensions and bodykits.

It's like a car's accessory shop.

Oh yeah, TS, if you want to test drive and see the full potential of an Inspira, go to their TT, every Friday, at 32 square PJ. Tons of people willing to show you what an Inspira can do. Just.....well, make sure you're brave and don't piss your pants when they bring you around test-driving their Inspiras.

Like the dude said, if you're basing it on your requirenemnts, then Forte would be the one that fits most of it. Forte's interior is just awesome, even more if you look at the Koup.

I wouldn't bother looking at FC too much if I were you, I've driven 1.6, 1.8, and 2.0 cars, and their FC are very similar. It's highly dependant on how you drive. But, if you are very FC conscious, then you gotta get a small, economical car (I'm talking about kancil, here). That's the only way.

I am willing to bet with you that if you take all the 6 cars above, and drive them constantly at 110km/h, the FC would be about the same. So, technically, a car doesn't make much difference in FC, your driving style does. Even if you take all 6 cars and drive in stop and go traffic, all the time, if you rev all the 6 cars at an average rev of 3k rpm, in stop and go traffic, I'm willing to bet with you the FC would be similar too. Wanna save fuel? Don't hit the pedal so much, simple as that.

But, don't ever, ever, buy a car without test driving it first.

Pick a bunch of car, test drive it, and then decide.

There's already news about a new lancer coming. Just google it.

About the detuned lancer part, yeah, Inspira is tuned to produce less power than the lancer, though they're using the exact same engine and transmission.

Easily solved, just need to remap the Inspira.

http://www.cbt.com.my/2012/08/27/mitsubish...lancer-in-2014/

Nah. 2014 Lancer. Didn't wanna post it cuz thread is not talking about new gen lancer.

Listen to Cokelat. There's a lot of other things to consider when buying a car instead of just the car's price.

Main concern would be maintenance. Cost to service, cost to replace wear and tear part, cost to fix something in case you get into an accident, etc.

Conti maintenance will not be cheap. I don't think you can afford it, or more accurately, I don't think you would want to afford it.

Don't just consider the cost of normal service and normal maintenance. Normal service and normal maintenance for all new cars are around the same, since it's just changing lubricants and such.

The things you need to consider are the spare parts. I don't know about other cars, since I drive an Inspira, but part of buying a car, is that you would need to be willing to fork out money for the spare parts - Just in case.

Let's just talk about Inspira, since that's the only one I know. Sure, it's a good car, but I'm not going to sugar coat it, it's an expensive car to maintain.

Did you know Inspira's headlights cost 1.6k per side? Yes, PER SIDE. Motorized headlights from Mitsubishi, that's why they're so expensive. Break it, and you'll cry.

Inspira's CVT costs 27k, without labour. Our wipers cost 160+ to replace, instead of typical 50+ for original Bosch.

Inspira's Throttle Body is 3.5k, without labour. The only cheap part in Inspira, are the absorbers, 100+ each, because they're from Proton. The rest of the major parts are from Mitsubishi, making them expensive.

And that's just talking about Inspira. I'm not trying to say Inspira is a bad car, but I'm trying to make you understand that you need to cosnider a lot of things when buying a car. Sure, all these things would not need to be replaced every year, and chances are, you will never need to replace it, BUT, what if, you got into a bad accident? What if, you don't want to claim your insurance for repairing your car? What if, you have no choice but to replace all these parts with your own money?

I'm pretty sure Continental car's parts would be more expensive. Inspira is, just a proton, at the end of the day

Though I keep seeing Mitsubishi logo on my car's parts

Not here to discourage you from getting a car, but I'm here to show you the realistic view of owning a car. It's not just all fun and joy of driving in your brand new car, picking up girls.

Hehe

Thank you, captain obvious. You totally missed the point of my post. Its not about whether the parts are cheap or expensive, it's about the fact that these things needs to be taken into consideration when buying a car.

Don't need to try to be a smartass.