Hi Jiffy22,

Doing well thanks!

Congratulations on the incoming new family member

I'd strongly recommend you give it a test drive to get a feel of the size and weight dude.

To be honest, so far the car has been great. I've clocked nearly 17,000KM on her since I got her in June of last year. I travel a lot to Singapore and Cameron Highlands because I have family there and the kids and wife love it for the space and comfort. Basically since all my 3 kids are under 10 so we still use a car seat for them. And there's enough space for my wife an we usually bring our helper as well - so everyone is comfortable. Plus I took the 7-seater configuration so we have a lot of boot space which is good because we're the type of family that packs a lot haha.

There's a ton of air-conditioning vents all the way to the last row so everyone is comfortable - in fact, most of the time, they complain it's too cold so I have to adjust the temperature or fan speed.

I've sent it in for servicing twice so far (first three are free) and the service centre I go to at Glenmarie has been very good so far, very informative and they listen to my queries about the car whenever I have any. They also give a free wash after every servicing - not sure if they will continue this once I start paying for servicing. I have a friend who works at Ford Malaysia and he said that Maxus' V80 van is a competitor to their Ford Transit and he said that the G10 was a good choice because many government organisations use the V80 for emergency vehicles, ambulances etc and since they are serving the government, they have to maintain a certain level of competency - so basically he said I did not have to worry about service centre reliability and parts.

If there were any issues with the car, I would say is that it's a 2.0 litre engine (with turbo) and therefore carrying a full load, you do feel the weight/strain at times, even with the turbo. Many a time I felt it when going up Camerons; but it does have the manual mode or treptonic mode so you can actually switch to that and drop gear or move up a gear depending on the situation - so that does help when you need that extra boost.

The other thing is that the reverse camera sensor has failed on me a couple of times but miraculously come back again even before I had a chance to get it checked at the service centre. Basically what happens is when I put the car in reverse gear, the screen initially shows a black image and then a prompt appears saying 'no camera input', but the reverse sensors work so you do hear the beeps. I did bring it to the service centre once to get it checked but they said it would be a whole day affair because they have to check the connection all the way from the front to the back - and at the time I didn't have the luxury of leaving it there for so long. So I said I'd bring it back another time - a few days later the camera worked again haha.

For me, I got it because I was on a budget but needed an Alphard/Starex sized car. It's a 2.0 liter engine which means I'd be paying the same for road tax as I did my previous Kia Forte. Big difference compared to the Alphard/Starex which is I think a 2.5/3.0 liter if I'm not wrong?

I was sceptical at first to be honest, seeing that the car was from China, but when I read that it was Weststar that brought the brand in, plus the parent company, SAIC bought LDV in the UK and supplies parts to several European car makers - that kind of gave me more confidence.

We had already put down a deposit on the Mazda Biante a few weeks before we saw the G10, but when we saw this car and the dealer managed to get a good deal for us (at the time) we went for it.

You know there are 3 variants for the G10 ya? I got the basic model which means quite a number of luxuries are not available but I can live without them, such as power doors, moon roof (the basic model does come with a sun roof however), birds eye view parking camera and some others I forgot. When I bought mine, they included an LCD/DVD player for free too.

Anyway, sorry if it was a bit long, hope my review helped and just PM me if you have any other questions - or just ask away in here.

Thanks!