So my cousin who has owned several cars including 8th Gen Civic, current City and Toyota Premio 1.8 drove this car yesterday.
He was like I will pick this car any day over City, it is more comfortable, more spacious and better value for money overall, and its drive is like that of 8th Gen Civic in comfort level, and as for the engine being "under-powered", he said that this is a family car and is reasonably powerful enough, the throttle response is pretty good, no power lag, and if one has to drag race and stuff like that, he should do it on the cars built for this purpose and not on these family sedans.