It’s good enough, almost like driving Civic sometimes feels like more powerful than civic (feels like)

Been driving my Premium for 5 days and I would say the performance is good enough for city drive in Comfort mode, and the sport mode has powerful torque for me to overtake car or speed when on wide and long straight road.

FC won't be average i believe, since it's still in running in period.

To answer your question why I'm getting X50. I have a premium continental car for work purposes, a Japanese car for evening/weekend use. X50 will be my 3rd car and will join the Japanese car for the same role, i.e. evening/weekend use. Before booking X50, I test drove a continental SUV car a month before X50 was launched (without knowing it will be launched) that costs more than twice flagship price. I never have a SUV before and I think perhaps, it's time I should get one.  The media reviews by some renowned motoring journalists and the Sepang test drive media where X50 outshone the other cars convinced me to go ahead to book X50 (2 weeks after the media review. i.e. October).

I'm are sick of Proton's local management attitude and that of their SAs. I'm equally aware of SCs work attitude too, after experiencing it many years go. However, I don't want to deprive myself the experience of driving a Chinese technology car, hence X50. I believe, the Japanese car makers have a rude wake up call witnessing how Chinese car makers have improved by leaps and bounds in such a short span of about 20-25 years time.  The Japanese car makers with their head start and experience in automotive engineering will have advantage over their Chinese counterparts and they just need to ensure their qualities border than of the continental cars.  Thus, my future cars will continue to be continental and Japanese and not Proton. My hope is, Geely will totally revamp Proton's management in the future so they can be seen as viable altenrative to Japanese cars (like whar Dr Li said, aim to be the 3rd largest car maker in Asean behind the Japanese).