Before I forget, I mentioned earlier I would take the Preve Turbo over the Toyota Vios or Honda City. In reality, the Preve Turbo should be compared to vehicles in the same class - Honda Civic, Toyota Altis and Nissan Sylphy. Sure, the Preve Turbo may lose out in certain areas, mainly in refinement, but when you look at the price, you will realise the value you are getting with the Proton.

Err... you come to this thread, so I think you'll get more Preve-biased advices

Nevertheless here's what I thought to answer your two points. Long term use and easiness are contributed by mainly the spare parts availability. The way things are now, Preve and Almera are quite abundant on the roads, so both of these cars are easy to maintain. I don't know for Almera, but for Preve roughly you'll need around RM200 for normal service including the engine oil, every 3-4 months. Almera FC is not that great as my colleague told me, in fact he's considering two sell his 4 months old Almera for a Vios. Preve is technically a '2.0' C-Segment car, you need to expect how this kind of car is guzzling the fuel, normal for its class (along with Civic, Forte and Altis).

For long term use, it's hard to gauge considering all these three cars are still new in the market, Almera and Preve being barely over one year old. You'll find city driving is quite drab for Preve, but once you hit above 80km/h, be watchful of how you step your paddle so not to get captured by speed trap camera, this car is hungry for acceleration on highways

By the way, Ford Fiesta Ecoboost 1.0 will be costly, most likely above RM90k. So I guess it will be out for you. The Ecoboost 1.0 was claimed to be as powerful as the 1.6-litre model. The new Fiesta 1.5 will be above RM85k from what I was told.

Since the Almera 1.5 is underpowered to my standards, I believe the 1.2-litre Mitsubishi Attrage will be even less powerful. Best is to try the cars and see for yourself.

i know this maybe out of context,since u mentioned its ur 1st car,n u mentioned to use 4 15 years which i cnsider quite hard to the market trend n its ur 1st,one day u may want to change car sooner than expected,why not cnsider saga sv. cheaper can save up a bit of cash for petrol,maintenance n future upgrade. u can opt 4 myvi also but maybe u need a boot space in future that cause u to upgrade earlier. so,saga sv may can serve u longer b4 upgrade to a bigger car or mpv when ur family grow bigger.
just my 2 cents

what type of problems that you heard? is it from someone who is using saga?