Countries that care about its people, will not let its people take kapchai and motorcycles as primary transport. They prepare convenient and effective public transports with more hubs linking districts. Cars are priced reasonable discouraging people from going for bikes for primary transport. Superbikes and lowriders are mainly for pleasure rides. They are looking forward to replace bikes with fuel saving capsules like in TRON movie.

Car resale value will be good if these are met:
- Lots of spare parts and priced reasonable
- There are workshops that know how to fix
- Looks of the car
- Reliable and maintenance low
- Demand for that car
- Safety and build quality

After GE, heard they will attempt to seize the automotive hub title from Thailand after huge tax reduction. If true, we'll get more cheap spare parts for the brands that have factories here. They are targeting Japanese, Conti and Korean carmakers to invest here. Tax from huge business growth profit especially from foreign investors will compensate the car tax reduction.

This post has been edited by goodguyextremist: Mar 8 2013, 10:19 PM

Actually true, the maintenance is main factor in determining resale value. To be accurate, these are main points for good resale value:
- reliability
- cost of ownership
- spare parts availabilty
- number of workshops that can fix the car

In Australia, new car prices are cheap and used cars are way cheaper, RV all so so only. Reason being the cars in Australia will easily hit high mileage over short period due to longer distance between home >> workplace >> school >> shops, etc. People prefer buy brand new rather than keeping the old car with very high mileage, no need to overhaul. Best thing about Australia is any cars there always have ready spare parts and only the best cars will be on top.

Our cars here are too expensive and only the few makes that offer plenty spare parts while others don't focus on after sales service much. That is how Toyota and Honda can sell well while others don't unless they focus on after sales.