I HAVE BOOKED A PROTON INSPIRA last week after much deliberation. In fact I had waited for the Waja replacement for quite sometimes now, thinking of going back to owning a 2.0 litre car from PROTON. I had previously owned a Proton Perdana 2.0 Year 1997 and have enjoyed living with it without much trouble as such I frowned on the talk of the town claim of Perdana Extreme maintainance problem.
In fact I have enjoyed my 1.6(A) Waja, being a real family car; spacious, decently comfortable, good steering and driver compartment design and great handling. I had abused the car with every week travel along the East-West Highway's treacherous route for Ipoh-Kota Bharu shuttle. Very, very seldom did a car, any car overtake me along the curved route. Most were seeing the modified design of my end tail.. I hope they like it!!!
However, a Proton is let down by the quality of the local vendors. The fit and finish leaves much to be desired. The power window is already too well known and even commented by the late PM Tun Mahathir who said that Japanese cars were much better to own than a Proton because of superior power window but not the car!!! However, the new management headed by Dato’ Haji Syed Zainal Abidin have done a lot of sensible acts to arrest the problem and bring back the interest and pride of customers to ownership of a Proton.
Now, after more than 1 year the replacement have at last arrived, winding back the clock to the early Proton-Mitsubishi collaboration which had been good and provided Proton with much impetus to leap frog Malaysia into the automotive industry. The Lancer 2.0 Model is a great model. The body size configuration is just right for my taste. The overall shape gearing towards sporty flavor is much to my liking. However, I noticed that the ride aspect isn't so good looking from behind a crusing Lancer; somehow the body roll traversing Malaysia's road condition is quite pronounced. It is much relieved on hearing that LOTUS had a good look at the ride and handling aspect and injected LOTUS technology in this department.
The Inspira is also injected with the current CVT technology and 6-speed auto that should promise a butter-like smoothness in driving. There is also a Paddle-shift, a steering located manual gear shifter that should be very nifty feature to effortless driving.
Well, I've put in the Rm1,000 booking fee, then have to 'gadai' my future in paying for the monthly fee... Well, the heart must not be denied....
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