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Friday, November 6, 2009

Honda Stream 1.8

Mileage done: 110,000km
Year Registered: 2005
No. of owners: 1

Topline specs:
Displacement: 1.6L

Power:  110bhp
Real-life fuel-consumption: 8-9+km/l


The good: Excellent handling for a car in this class
The bad:
The ugly:

Chevrolet Aveo

Mileage done: 110,000km
Year Registered: 2005
No. of owners: 1

Topline specs:
Displacement: 1.6L

Power:  110bhp
Real-life fuel-consumption: 8-9+km/l


The good: Excellent handling for a car in this class
The bad:
The ugly:

Mitsubishi Lancer GLX 1.5

Mileage done: 110,000km
Year Registered: 2005
No. of owners: 1

Topline specs:
Displacement: 1.6L

Power:  110bhp
Real-life fuel-consumption: 8-9+km/l


The good: Excellent handling for a car in this class
The bad:
The ugly:

Hyundai Getz 1.3

Mileage done: 110,000km
Year Registered: 2005
No. of owners: 1

Topline specs:
Displacement: 1.6L

Power:  110bhp
Real-life fuel-consumption: 8-9+km/l


The good: Excellent handling for a car in this class
The bad:
The ugly:

Nissan Latio 1.5

Mileage done: 110,000km
Year Registered: 2005
No. of owners: 1

Topline specs:
Displacement: 1.6L

Power:  110bhp
Real-life fuel-consumption: 8-9+km/l


The good: Excellent handling for a car in this class
The bad:
The ugly:

Honda Civic 1.8 VTI

Mileage done: 110,000km
Year Registered: 2005
No. of owners: 1

Topline specs:
Displacement: 1.6L

Power:  110bhp
Real-life fuel-consumption: 8-9+km/l


The good: Excellent handling for a car in this class
The bad:
The ugly:

Subaru Forester 2.0 XT

Mileage done: 110,000km
Year Registered: 2005
No. of owners: 1

Topline specs:
Displacement: 1.6L

Power:  110bhp
Real-life fuel-consumption: 8-9+km/l


The good: Excellent handling for a car in this class
The bad:
The ugly:

Proton Perdana

Mileage done: 110,000km
Year Registered: 2005
No. of owners: 1

Topline specs:
Displacement: 1.6L

Power:  110bhp
Real-life fuel-consumption: 8-9+km/l


The good: Excellent handling for a car in this class
The bad:
The ugly:

Proton Gen 2

Mileage done: 110,000km
Year Registered: 2005
No. of owners: 1

Topline specs:
Displacement: 1.6L

Power:  110bhp
Real-life fuel-consumption: 8-9+km/l


The good: Excellent handling for a car in this class
The bad:
The ugly:

Honda Integra

Mileage done: 110,000km
Year Registered: 2005
No. of owners: 1

Topline specs:
Displacement: 1.6L

Power:  110bhp
Real-life fuel-consumption: 8-9+km/l


The good: Excellent handling for a car in this class
The bad:
The ugly:

Proton Wira

Mileage done: 110,000km
Year Registered: 2005
No. of owners: 1

Topline specs:
Displacement: 1.5L

Power:  101bhp
Real-life fuel-consumption: 8-9+km/l


The good: Excellent handling for a car in this class
The bad:
The ugly:

Mitsubishi Colt

Mileage done: 110,000km
Year Registered: 2005
No. of owners: 1

Topline specs:
Displacement: 1.3L

Power:  110bhp
Real-life fuel-consumption: 14+km/l


The good: Damn good fuel consumption and good leg-room, recline-able rear seat
The bad: Terrible to drive
The buy or don't buy:

Toyota Corolla (Japan)

Mileage done: 70,000km
Year Registered: 2005
No. of owners: 1

Topline specs:
Displacement: 1.6L

Power:  110bhp
Real-life fuel-consumption: 11-12+km/l


The good: Seriously well-built and solid car even after 3 years of family usage
The bad: Looks like any other car on the road
The buy or don't buy: It's not easy to get one anymore, but if you can get something below 50K in mileage done, get it.

Suzuki Grand Vitara

Mileage done: 20,000km
Year Registered: 2007
No. of owners: 1

Topline specs:
Displacement: 2.0L

Power:  140bhp
Real-life fuel-consumption: 8-9+km/l


The good: Rear-wheel drive helps minimise  under-steering
The bad: Rear-wheel drive makes over-steering in wet conditions worse
The ugly: Terrible fuel consumption and don't even bother taking this baby off-road

Mazda 3

Mileage done: 110,000km
Year Registered: 2005
No. of owners: 1

Topline specs:
Displacement: 1.6L
Power:  110bhp
Real-life fuel-consumption: 8-9+km/l


The good: Excellent handling for a car in this class
The bad:
The ugly:

Fiat Punto

Mileage done: 55,000km
Year Registered: 2006
No. of owners: 1

Topline specs:
Power:  90bhp
Real-life fuel-consumption: 12+km/l




The good:
The bad:
The ugly:

Mitsubishi Lancer GLX

Mileage done: 65,000km
Year Registered: 2006
No. of owners: 1






The good:

The bad:

The ugly:

Audi A4

Mileage done: 125,000km
Year Registered: 2004
No. of owners: 2

The good: At its age, the engine is still pretty smooth

The bad: Well

The ugly: Everywhere you see, the lamination on the interior plastics have chipped off so badly, I tried to use black marker to hide them

Well what do you expect. For a car at about 1.4tonnes, the power it's getting is only around 130bhp. Amazing when you think even the Honda Civic 1.8 has more power than a luxury compact sedan.

Toyota Ractis - 2006

Mileage to date: 67,000km
No. of owners: 2


The good: Great rear legroom

The bad: Terrible handling

The ugly: Well the car itself...

More to come...