Toyota Avenza which is being imported by Toyota Indus Motor company is Indonasian Assembled. If you go to a Toyota dealership and take a closer look at it you will find out that the built qulity is crap. Before lookin at the Indonasian assembled vehicle, I was of the opinion that Toyota Indus is producing the worst built quality, but now it has changed. The indonasians are produsing crap.
If you go into further details; it comes wid a 1.5 Liter 3SZ-VE engine(Rear Wheels drive Setup). Which according to my little knowledge is a small block Z Gen engine. It shares the same block wid a 1SZ-FE and 2SZ-FE which are 1.0 and 1.3 Liter respectively and have appeaed in toyota Vitz belta and a few other small Toyotas.
I would personally have liked to see a 1NZ-FE if not the latest VVTi Dual 2NR-FE. 1NZ-FE would have been a much better choice keeping in view the extreme weather of our country, specially the hot weather were tempratures can go well beyond 50 degrees in the months of May and June wid the humidity staying as low as 10%.
The only good point of this perticular vehicle is the space. As it is a people carrier the rear leg room is abundant and the boot is big too. You also get two extra seats in the boot aswell. If you have decided to go for Avanza make sure that you go for top of the line model as it comes wid the Dual A/C, as it is a must in people carrier.
The closest compitition that Avanza has is a Suzuki APV. I personally think that Avanza is better.
Talking about the resale. The price of Avanza will drop like a stone as soon as it leaves the showroom.
If you do not have four or more kids, I think you shud not go for it.
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