I'm feeling generous today, so I decide to write a serious long post. Readers beware.
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We should not judge a book by its cover, but most of us admittedly judge a person by the car they drive.
Below is a ranking of car models and the social status it represent in malaysian society.


shit tier: sub rm90k car
Driven by b40 families and young graduates.

New car: myvi, axia, saga, vios, city.
Used car: Doesn't matter if you drive a continental car, if the market value falls below 90k, it's probably shit tier, and that is okay. Shit tier doesn't mean its bad, as owning a car means you are quite well off than half of the world population.
Road presence: none, because it is very ubiquitous in the whole country, especially outside of KL.

mid tier: 90k - 230k car
This is your average middle class car. Chances are these are the cars that most people can possibly afford in their lifetime. Cars within this price range are very diverse, driven by middle class, it is practically half of the car owning population. People who drive luxury brand within this range likes to think they made it in life, but they are wrong.

New car: civic, corolla, mazda 3, bmw 218i.
Used car: vellfire, alphard, bmw f30, mercedes w205, cla w117, lexus etc.
Road presence: little, except for a few rare grey import cars like the honda s660.

top tier: 230k - 500k car
People who drive these cars are doing well in life, most of them have achieved their maximum potential.

New car: most BBA model range, porsche 718, volvo s60
Used car: yaris gr, mustang eco boost, mercedes s class, porsche panamera.
Road presence: some, particularly cars that is well polished, or less than 1-2 years old.

god-tier: 500k - 2 mil car
Congratz, when your car market value are within this range, you are not only legitimately made it in life, but you are in the 1%.

New car: Mass production super car such as huracan, 911, 488, vantage, 720s
Used car: rolls royce, bentley.
Road presence: 90% of these cars will turn head.

beyond god-tier: >2 mil car
Only a handful of malaysians will achieve this level.

New car: divo, sienna, cullinan, monza sp1
Used car: hypercars.
Road presence: 100%, even without entourage of escort vehicles and bikes.

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Things that will lower your car social class:
- Non legitimate emblem on car plate
- Gaudy car mod
- Car plate that starts with KV
- Previous gen model

Closing word, I noticed a lot of malaysian have this perception that the car badge will increase other people's perception of their social class. Sorry, it will not. Please don't flex your maserati keyfob or steering wheel on ig. The only car factor that is indicative of your social class is the car's current market value, bar none.

This post has been edited by taga: Nov 4 2021, 03:30 PM

Can't possibly reply to all, thx to all that care so much about what i think. lol.

More power to you.

I'm judging solely on wealth, not profession. A person can choose to use his potential to accomplish many things. Depend on their destiny.

Those who triggered are those who give a fuck about what I think about what car they drive. And boi oh boi there are many.

That is the spirit.

Old but still a relatively effective way to measure, at least ballpark. Nowadays it's also about the experience.

Precisely because it is a depreciating assets, that people use it as a measurement. Depreciating assets has a higher threshold of affordability because ideally you need a higher disposable income in order to justify spending on it.

Just because you don't care doesn't mean its not there; just because it's there doesn't mean you should care.


I'm only judging on cars. Holistically these people that struggle to meet payments would be in the bottom barrel.

This is car ranking bruh.

You're right. "shit tier" should be further subcategorised into low, mid and upper.

An opinion is still an opinion, however controversial or "shallow" it is.

I will be sad if I spend 20 minute writing this post and get no view and reply.

We like to think we are not, but we are materialistic, the result will be the same if I change the topic from car to house, bag, clothes, watches, educations, air travel, etc.

that is good.

Ayam salary less than 5k also drive used axia only.

But I don't know why so many /ktards here got this fetish of pretending as pig to eat tiger.