I'm happy to announce that I just got a Waja Campro

My review on Waja Campro 1.6 (Auto)

I love the smell of a new car. The interior of the car is leather sitting with nice reddish leatherish front board and a sleek designed aircond duct and speed 'o' meter. So far, interior wise, the car posses no problems yet. No squeaking, no hissling and all that kind of noise. The car comes with a MP3/CD player which I haven't tested out yet, but from the FM radio quality, I'll say it's not too bad for people who listens to things moderately in their car.

Then comes the best part, the engine. Revving the car is quite silent. So far, I've never heard of a Proton car that's so silent. Even during operation, it's also silent inside. Being only 200KM on road, I've yet to drive it over 80KM/h and bring it up to its potential speed afraid that it might shock the engine. However, I believe that the Campro engine on Waja has a lot of potential as I felt like I was already driving a Merz with its power and comfortability. One problem, the car takes a lot of oil paddle pressing when it's 0 to 60. The pickup of the car is quite slow, but once it reaches around 60-70KM/h, the car starts to shine. There's also problem with going up hill. On the 'D' gear, the car could barely go up a steep hill at only around 50KM/h. Only when I change to 2nd gear that it could go up to 70KM/h with a loud engine roar.

Waja Campro 1.6(auto) got no ABS, that's a point reduction, but the current braking system is not all that bad either. Handling of the car is a charm. It could take corners easily and I'm sure if it's a manual car, this car would've been perfect for drifting!

Fuel consumption is quite good. I could go about 100KM on about RM15 of petrol in city. To my surprise, the only car that could do this is a Merz that I drive, never thought Malaysian cars could to that till now!

Overall, I give Waja Campro a 8 out of 10. There's still room for improvement, but so far, I'm very satisfied with it.

This post has been edited by masamura: Mar 29 2006, 12:47 PM