what makes your source more reliable than others?

sounds more reasonable to me, delay due to technical issue. putting the blame to government doesn't hold any water. if government really wants to increase the price then why on honda civic alone? how about altis, supra, bezza, bmw ckd which was released recently.

Good to know they are working on the technical issues.

I spoke to my SA if it is really true the government is sitting on it, holding the price then tell honda malaysia to come out with official statement explaining the situation. No need to bluff me with nonsense.

Reason government want to increase price, honda is fighting for the best price, to protect proton, all doesnt make any sense at all.

none taken bro.. its freedom of speech or to share any info that u had..its forum btw..

I'm quite confident with the picture, you can said its fake or what.. its totally up to u..

u trust ur source, than I put my trust on mine also.. simple as that..

never force anyone to believe..

just share what I know/ heard in here.. and everyone in here can verify with their own source or what ever.

also no offense to u..  

I thought this was your last comment?

https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...post&p=95237676

mr know it all and others are wrong. stfu keenhawk

I'll help u quote from Paultan:

"One of the issues that has been affecting car companies in Malaysia for the past few months is the delayed approval of vehicle pricing, particularly for CKD locally-assembled cars, which has led to certain launches being delayed or estimated pricing being issued in the meantime.
As an example, the Honda HR-V facelift was first previewed in July 2018, but was only officially launched in January 2019. Other models such as the Toyota Rush and Vios, along with the Mazda CX-5 were also introduced with estimated pricing initially.
A more recent case is the Honda Civic facelift, with Honda Malaysia announcing the start of order taking in September 2019, but has yet to officially launch the model. Even new brands appear to be affected by it, such as Borgward, as there is till no official update when it will start its CKD operations."

Source: Paultan

Civic now the same height with new corolla already? Too low for old people?

Not many good cars in this price range

some young ppl has family members too, once a while fetch them around since civic is a 4 door sedan with trunk and in many other countries just another regular family saloon. 

You're right.

pump extra RM30/week for vpower racing/ron100, one year already exceed RM1500...

Factory tuning is very conservative (and tuned lazily, because standard tuning for whole region), so got room for optimisation. If done correctly, can improve performance + fuel consumption.

+1, there is proper tuning where it is done by stages with proper parts upgrade. Then there's casual optimization for car, not hardcore just slightly better than factory settings. But if you want to go fast number 1 upgrade is still the tyre first.

i'm quite taken back....
can elaborate further?

ron100/v power racing won't give you anything much here because the tuning here is more for lower quality fuel, hence an even more waste of money for pretty much nothing.

Why GTR/A45 state need RON97 or higher? Because it is "TUNED" for that. In fact, you can tuned your very own civic to run best on ron97, WITHOUT sacrificing longevity and have a possible small leg up in fuel consumption.
True, car makes invest lots of money, but they also optimise their cost on  the non crucial stuffs (example : civic infamous touch point issues are one of them that many of the forummers complained about).

I'll use a similar comparison. You buy ps4 tyres, it is rated for speeds above 250km/h. A drives on average 200km/h and you drive average 110km/h. Assuming a smooth infinite journey on a highway, the longevity will likely be the same mileage wise driving on either speeds.

Your engines lifespan, if you don't seek the red line (extreme limits) often, really won't affect that much frankly. And the additional tuning really is mild if you really try to understand further about these kinds of proper piggyback tuning. As you mentioned also, "optimise" level, that means taking into account the crappy fuel quality, insane time of idling, uncountable start/stop traffic jams, to the weekend malaysian F1 drivers, etc. When you optimise, the lowest common denominator will pull the average down. So if you do a PROPER and CORRECT tune, you get the additional benefits, without sacrificing longevity.

Yes warranty is gone. But the terms of warranty here is just so restrictive. Some honda owner from other thread had to pay for the 12v port replacement because of using it with a USB charger...wtf was that??!!
Sounds optimistic, but please consider from a business prospective.

Do you think they will absorb the cost just like that? Really want to make lesser profit/losses on such a high demand product? 2 scenarios :
1) honda malaysia will lower the spec; yeah same car, but lesser features (or worse, lower quality)
2) honda malaysia will/may announce the official sale soon, but assembly/delivery drag later, to reduce the overall volume (to reduce losses). The coronavirus issue will have some impact as some parts will still need to be sourced from China. Next year, price will likely be adjusted; or hoping the government will topple and new policy again. Honda malaysia will be banking on this strategy for a short period only.

It will be a balance of both, temper your excitement.

SUV vs Sedan:
More maintenance fee
More Fuel consumption (especially X70, you can see lots of complaint about FC in X70 group/forum)
High ground center, less stable compare to Sedan

but is up to the buyer to decide lah, just my 2 cents~    no offense ya~

oh i see.....show me the graphs.....

by the way, dyno numbers recorded at wide open throttle...do you do that while driving normally? And the numbers will definitely not be that much, because the engine not TUNED for high octane. Higher octane fuel also contains slightly better additives that may help in combustion stability and friction reduction, hence the slightly better numbers in dyno. Heck....even doing a dyno at night and the afternoon will show different numbers on RON95 purely due to temperature and humidity differences.....

Anyway, this discussion will go no where, each entitled to their perspective and there is absolutely nothing wrong with staying stock if one so desires.

what part is it?

Steering rack again! Was waiting for new FL civic. Now it make me doubt. Which service center settled it?

Finally got SC to take a look at clunking sound from my front right suspension area, turns out a bolt wasn’t tightened enough when they replaced my steering rack a few months ago. What the flying F?! Like this also can. I’ve lost faith in Honda with all these quality issues plaguing their CKD products, even a friend’s BRV got absorber issue only a few months after getting his new car.