Goodbye.....and Hello...

Sometimes, all good things will come to an end and more good things will come at you if you believe......ehh...what I am talking about lah??

Hehehehe...Actually, I wanna say.........Farewell & Goodbye to my beloved Honda. After almost 6 years and approximately 150,000 kms later, I decided that it was time for a change....

So thank you Honda Citehhh.....My family & I had so many memories with you!! In fact, kecik grew up with you....hahahaha...


I still remember the day, it was in mid 05 when I took delivery of you. It seems like yesterday...How time flies ehh?

You've been to all the 4 corners of Peninsular Malaysia. Not once...but a few times as well....

Anyways, I've had only good things to say about Honda. The car, the service and the quality is top notch....To be honest, the car itself didn't give me any major headache. Pretty much a 'hassle-free' car....

Like I said earlier.....it's time for a change. Time to move on.....

So, last saturday I took the delivery of my new ride....it's a Mazda... Which model eh? ehehehe....



Why Mazda you may ask?

Honestly, from the first time I had a look at the car, I was impressed with the design, the interior, the handling and most importantly the brand...By the way, my bro-in-law is driving a Mazda as well...and from the looks of it....he's enjoying his ride....

Obviously, since I'm upgrading to a bigger engine (CC) car as compared to the 'Citehh'...so the fuel consumption will be a lot more lahhh

It took me about 5 months before I decide to go with Mazda. I had the Civic 2.0, Altis 2.0, Inspira (what????), Lancer GT and Nissan Sylphy in my considerations as well. Plus, after calculating the budgets and so forth, my wife and I decided to go with Mazda....

Everywhere you go nowadays, you'll see Hondas and Toyotas on the road. So, I needed to be a wee bit different. Hehehehe...

Zoom-zoom!!!

Have a nice week everyone!!

hrmmmmmm........

Spent a few hours at a car showroom looking, admiring & wondering at a new car yesterday.....

Kecik was rather impressed.....and wifey was......errrr.....happy ( I think)

Hrmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..........



A

Kereta........

For the past few months, I've been an avid silent reader of Syed Akhbar Ali. I really admire his writings and the way he explain things. I wished I could write as good as him. Maybe, I should read more books from now on. Expand my mind a little bit. Hehehehe...

Anyways, recently he wrote something about the prices of car in Malaysia. I tend to agree with his argument.

First, he spoke about Honda Insight ( a hybrid car). I was approached by a Honda salesman in Giant Kota Damansara the other day. He spoke at length about Honda Hybrid, the price, the advantage, bla bla bla. The price is always a factor with me. If I can remember correctly, the price is about RM95k. Something like that lah. For 1300cc car, it's quite expensive lah kan. But, it's a honda. A good brand though....The salesman said, if I were to make my booking with him, he can deliver the car to me sometime in May 2011.

Anyway, I made a quick research about the price for Honda Insight in the United States via google, it states that the base price for such car is USD18,880. That's like RM57,000.

How come the there's a difference of about RM40,000? In short, Malaysians are paying RM40k more for the same identical cars that the Americans bought. That's like reaping our hard-earned money kan?

It's not easy to buy a car in Malaysia now eh? It's weird to know that the prices of car is bloody expensive. Are we being cheated all this while or we're just following the policies that are being set to protect the few?

My wish: please....please reduce the prices of cars in malaysia....

Proton Inspira......are u inspired now????

Guess...everyone knows about the 'latest' Proton model by now.

To be honest with you, when I look at the car... I know that the car is actually a Mitsubishi Lancer. It looks exactly like Lancer.

For all those money spent (God Knows How much lah), all Proton can do is to re-badge a 2007 model of a Mitsubishi Lancer? I'm no expert in the car industry but I'm just wondering with all those million ringgit (I safely assumed it could be multi million ringgit worth of R&D expenditure) spent on R&D, is that the best decision i.e Re-badging a Japanese car??

Of course lah, the price will be cheaper then the real thing but, the question remains, why?? Is it because of stiff competition from the other Japanese Car makers? Well-informed car owners? Trend? .........

Proton Inspira?....Good name ....but please, be more original. Emphasize on quality instead of quantity.......