QUOTE(lee82gx @ Feb 24 2025, 09:21 AM)
Autobuzz or Eugene reviews cars for a living and I see that he / they have nothing bad to say about bad cars.
The real question should be who reviews their reviews for a living?
Here is a non exhaustive list of people I don't trust:
People who review cars just to make content and clicks. And then they have no other apparent job other than that, then their job is more like a freelance car salesman.
PauTan
TaiC.Yee
Autob*zz
B*bbyAng
automachy
yskhang
msiamotoring
...the list is long
Here is one that dare to tell you or at least hint you:
The Piston Show
But refer my question above. They are all fallible. Consider ALL of them actors in a TV show just saying things according to script. They do not reveal the script writers so assume the script comes from people who will benefit from them IE vendors.
For the case of Honda malaysia cars, remember that the CBU Speccing is actually different from US / International (Which you can sometimes trust their reviews because some of them plain condemn a car for 30 minutes straight). Most obvious is the sound proofing. Next is airbag design. If any International spec car is as loud as the local Civic it will be outright called out.
And the second part which is dangerous to your life is Honda Malaysia rejection of warranty and safety related defects - Steering rack. Worldwide recall upside down, Malaysia one will say no issue. Reject your claims and ask you to risk your life on the road. Good 6 months after the issue blow up they will silently say there is an "update", and then 3 months later only then the RTD will repeat the same thing for good measure.
from what I recall, all local YouTubers, personal or company, are not brave enough to criticize any car given for reviews. Worst, Continental give them 4 new donuts, they praise that junk tyres as good as Michelin PS series but at lower price. This was started since UC6 era, MC6 era, where in truth, both model tyres just don't have wet tyre grips vs other good branded tyres, but they keep on saying only great thing for both tyre model. In FB on personal as well as Car Group, many shared the same situation for both UC6 and MC6 for wet traction, where both are Poor, it just not grip, only cons is quieter and dry ok. Now if u watch local Youtubes, they play the same game for UC7 and MC7, cz Continental Malaysia sponsored them new donuts, lol.
same feedback for cars, years ago they praise Preve CVT lazy tuning as European feedback lol. Like u need to press 60% of the pedal to make it move, until many complaints they do sort of TCU software update.