Saturday, January 31, 2009

Nobody perfect...







On looking for a new car we still need to undergo some decision making process.

One of the resonable comments from test driver on newly launched Honda City...
After 3 times testing the car, I've found out some of the goods and bads about new Honda City compared to the old one.
Good:
1) handling really better than old city,
2) the new design beats me. (Although i dun like the modulo kits, sorry)
3) the brakes are really good as well.
4) rear reclining seat make ppl feels a lot comfortable,
5) rear underseat tray is really practical for some gals who like to treat the rear section of thier car as a “shoe cabinet”, like my wife
6) the audio system can produce enough power with 6 speakers and the connectivity of it is definitely giving wilder choise..(u see malaysia here keeping the cd rom. but some like thailand) SVC funtion
7) the seat cover’s look nice.. differ finishing compare with E & S, E = more sporty look with blue double stiches.
Rear aircond air port really can flow thru the rear passengers, (but need to turn the air-conditioned directional knob to flow mid&bottom.
9) Both variants come with chrome door handle which is quite a bit handle too.
10) Sound insulation is well done.

Bad:
1) 1st thing i want to say is… this so called NEW city…. dont have door auto lock feature not even brake lock or RPM lock…. what make it more ridiculous is…… switches to unlock/lock the door also dont HAVE… WTH… pening liao lo..
2) the specs. stated that the E variant has a leather gear knob… it’s a LIAR~~ hopefully this only happen to test drive cars…and the 1st batch delivery will provide the leather gear knob instead of a little stickers to cover the “leather gear knob” wording in the specifications.
3) although the alarm is a new gen model…. but why no sound~~~ only flashes of signal like every time need to look back to make sure the car is lock is not that convenient….
4) the boot is too big…. i put this in bads… because if make the boot smaller in exchange a larger cabin space would be wiser…
5) same happen to the under the hood…. why so many gaps around the engine.. cannot utilized it to provide more space in cabin meh?
6) the audio panel really pop out a bit… when testing the car while cornering gao… my knee hit the panels…
7) radio reception is poor…. maybe too much distraction???
front passenger need to “move away” their knee or pull the seat all the way back in order to open the glove box… very ??.
that’s what i observed so far……. hope a lot of goods only coming out ??