I agree with you on every point.
Most cars reliability and restoration you are mentioning toyota suzuki and Honda.
This is because scrapped parts or simply saying spare parts avaliablilty.
Nissan and mitsubishi were dumped by their partner companies in Pakistan (Gandhara and Dewan group) Same groups let Kia and Hyundai fail aswell.
The way Kia, Hyundai, Changan have re entered, I think I can put my money on them
Selling a Picanto might be not as easy as Cultus but in my opinion both cars would loose similar value in 3 years or equal usage.
Koreans have come along way to compete with Japanese and American automobiles.
Germans cars for Chinese markets are100% made in China designed in Germany.
American, Japanese and German manufacturers partners are running Chinese automobiles.
Changan is definitely not like Prince Pearl and United alpha bravo Charlie.
This is simply like Q mobile and Redmi.
Driving a Toyota Corolla is never fun, but majboori
Cheap parts, better resale, can be repaired at any corner of pakistan because of old technology.
Personally I have seen people outside Karachi take risks they have all types Japanese 660 kachra coming in just because they think the car is pretty.
For karachi you can still see
95, 97, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2019, 2021 Corolla going ina single line