nice write up bro

cherry pick contents with my limited time je

and well, working graveyard shifts does have its perks at times...

I've finally test driven the Yaris myself, albeit a short/lousy experience with the Toyota Salesman at Wangsa Maju branch.

from the limited experience:
- facelift Persona (and further mentions from here will be the facelifted version) Suspension overall is better
- Yaris is more compliant/comfort for road bumps/speed bumps/potholes painted lines etc
- the brake servo/pump on the Persona is much better, even though only being ~50kg heavier
- braking on the Persona is more confident inspiring despite being a heavier car
- the CVT 7 fix ratios are actually fairly responsive, and actually allows me to go to 1 (M1), although i suspect the "1" ratio isn't that apparent as normal manual 1/slosh box 1 as the RPM's aren't really that high... or maybe possibly like the myvi, dash says 2 according to the gear knob, the in reality the car auto shifted to 3 :x
- i LOVE the panoramic camera. OCD parking into boxes is SUPER easy now lol
- Yaris sound system not bad. can't remember if the Persona have dedicated upper mids/tweeters similar to the Yaris/my 86. will confirm next time
- Yaris tire sizes damn shit, not sure if the rims can cope a cm increase in width both the 16 and 15 also same story.
- rear leg room is shit for the middle passenger. it'll comfortably carry 4, but 5... sucks for the center person.
- the engine is definitely more responsive than the paper specs. throttle lag is less apparent than the Persona. albeit, once you past the lag, Persona definitely have more punch with the clutch based CVT and being 100cc more and reflected on the paper specs as well. hah Proton actually being more power than Toyota? NOWAI!

oh and let me add this:
myvi suspension is a pile of shit.
it's not even comfortable when it toss the entire car up upon going through speed bumps while the Persona and even better the Yaris soaks it up compliantly!

Yaris is definitely not a Toyota badged Myvi. its WAY better. lol

same segment.

both got good points also la... but is it worth >20k better?

the most common interface - steering
Persona had leather wrapping (only on the thumb portion, 9/3 o clock position) while Yaris... it SAYS leather on brochure, but the actual thing, felt more like hard plastic. UNLESS they meant the center honk piece, that's soft plush leather... (if that's the case, what the actual fuck? lol)

way better than the initial tests i've done during Suprima/Iriz first launched.

IT Era, everyone can just quote paper specs.

I was the same and probably still is

But when it comes to driving (or riding) these days, what really matters is what puts a smile on me