Salam to all, new to this forum.
Anyways, everybody here just rated the cars mentioned above in terms of parts, after sale services, resale etc, which i belive is not something to evaluate a real ride on the road. Dont mind its my own thought.
You guys mentioned alot for COROLLA, CIVIC, LANCER, SUNNY and in almost every post at the end the OPTRA. You guys really know about OPTRA? No war, just a question friends
Let me share some statistics of this sedan, and some are already been mentioned by "mics420<SCRIPT type=text/javascript> vbmenu_register("postmenu_145311", true); </SCRIPT>"
GM Daewoo Lacetti Excelles in China Receives 14 Awards in 2004
Dont mind its not like that i just copied it from Chevy site, but i knew the day when that happened and awarded
Car of the Year 2006 -- Best Estate Under 1600 cc
The Optra also managed a respectable four star rating (out of a possible five) in European crash test ratings
overall mileage of this car as 10.5 KmpL with A/C on
And the most prominent and the most imprtant part of it is its look and styling. No doubt that CIVIC is an attractor too, but the difference is that with the same styling from 2004 till now it still competes with the latests styling of CIVIC and COROLLA. why beacuse they made a car with such a styling that i think will even compete for coming 10 to 15 years or so.
More if ever had a chance to drive OPTRA in city and on a long run, u will notice the difference of drivin pleasure, no doubt that both CIVIC and COROLLA runs good againts optra but when it comes to braking, control, comfort, and long run optra out run both.
Come inside, Climate Control thing, i have no confirmation that new civic is coming with it or not, but COROLLA noops. Just imagine a SPLIT UNIT inside ur CAR Space is the one of the finest part of OPRTA, i also own COROLLA. First u slide inside corolla, than CIVIC and than just jump inside OPTRA and u will notice the difference.
Lights, corolla and civic has the best beams but only beamers not reall lights as for corolla low beam and high beam way too difference between there range Civic has good. But when it comes to optra just like everything else assembled very calculated, its beam difference is also rates 5 in mid size sedan.
Braking, CIVIC is good infact great, COROLLA i am sorry to say but not like it should have. And optra a real time test: pushed hard brakes on 120KM/H with a very short distance, infact a total risk on my own. And gues what i just left the steering wheel free and consantrated on brake, and the car not even moved left or right a bit. and stopped exactly before the stop line on singnals.
Re-sale, friends its something that depends on ur actual scope of purchase, if ur buying something to be cashed in future than yes corolla is the topper, than civic and than all others including OPTRA. But it also depends on how u maintain ur car?
And like that list goes on and on. Last but not the least, when it comes to buy ur ride, i believe the road saftey is the 1st and the last concern (Again it depends on ur scope of purchase, but for me life is more precious than money ) optra is a hard matel solid than all others. High Pressure taking metal beams on ur sides makes u feel like ur safe from outer world. And yes as for overall material, CIVIC is good infact great but corolla no chance at all. And optra as mentioned above metal solid and flexible.
Real life example, had an unexpected stop of a car infront of me it was CORE. and i pushed that DINKI with a speed of 80KMP and the car again start moving, and the driver was not even bothered to see what happened why cas he felt nothing (actually he was converting from CNG to PETROL, so he thought that push was cas of that thing ) i stopped on signal excused him and we both stopped on road side looked deep at our cars and believe it or not there was not even a single scratch on both cars so its material is something that is safe not only for u but for others too and thats not all, once I was in JHELUM and accidently dropped the left wheel inside a GATAR hole, and whole side of the car dipped inside that hole, the front bumber including the front fog light was sequeezed like top of it merged to the bottom of it and when people pushed it out, without looking at the car said way too much damage and than when they looked at it they were amazed that the whole bumper is there in one piece and even reshaped itself even fog light was not damaged and what more no curls, a little tiny scratch and thats all
I know i know its way too long post and off topic too, infact i am cutting it down alot just posting it because many of my brothers out there should know who own OPTRA that what they have and who believes that its nothing should know it is someting to have:-)
And ALLAH GAWAH hai main CHEVY PAKISTAN ka koi MARKTING MANAGER nahe
Happy, safe and comfortable driving friends