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Got a New Altis 2005 Automatic.
The first good thing is the delivery time .The car is delivered in 19 days after the booking. The General time of booking is around 6 Months for XLI at that time.
The interior features are much better than the normal corolla like the Map Lamps for driver and front pessanger. Driver AirBag, Doble Din Pioneer Pre with MP3 Support and very handsome looking Optitron meter. The build quality of interior is below average. The AirVents are not properly fitted. Went to dealership to get it fixed but they could not help although it was a manufacturing fault but they failed to take the responsibility or provide any remedy.
The wooden console center pocket is very poorly designed and got broken within first 3 months. Need to get it repaired from a local grill maker who has added the steel rods and since then its working perfectly.
The Best thing about Altis is its acceleration. The engine is 133HP i.e 100 kW. 2009 and onwards are detuned to 97KW.
Just press the floor and you will feel the torque. Excellent response at low revs. There is no locally manufactured car that can give you such a response upto 3000 RPM which is usually the limit for city driving. Mine is an Automatic so not as fast as the Manual one but still pretty quick. Also the ECT Power mode allows you to keep the lower gears for much longer times. Although if u are flooring the car then ECT or no ECT are same.
Doing 150-160 KM/h is pretty easy for the car.
The average on fuel is around 10.5 and on CNG with Lambda Kits its 120+ in 55 Liter cylinder.
The General tires that come with the car are no good.However the car does not have scary feeling of bad breaks due to the presence of ABS.
I have changed my tires to 205/65/14 and the grips improved a lot. On a rainy day you need to be careful as the ABS engages a lot but for a normal dry day I will rate the brakes above average.
The ride is bumpy compared to Japanese Corolla or the Civic But the suspension is blessing in the rural areas with no roads.You need not to care about the bad patches much.
The leg room is good for passengers up to 6 feet.Also the rear passengers does not have a same crippling feel that is associated with civic 2008.
Looks wise the car is not bad. The door garnish and the side skirts on the doors gives an impressive look to the car they are not sporty but decent.
The fog lights are also included as a standard accessory and the switch is part of the indicator stick.Also the car is equipped with a CAT to provide cleaner emissions.
Its a shame that the car comes without alloys.It was top of the line model but comes with steel rims.
Overall its a good purchase if you keep in mind the availability of spare parts.

Very good economical car specially for Pakistan's
Because Cheap maintenance,
low cost of parts body as well as engine parts.
and lots of thing
Overall it is a good economical for us
Regards,
Syed Awais Ali................................................................... ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

its a nice car but the price of a car is very very expensive not aford able by a normal person but overall this car is according to me rated GOOD

i have it and the bad part is that it uses fuel like i am driveing corola.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

This model civic - no comparison at all with the latest model civics in the quality of material used. what a solid body it has and as compare to the latest cars, these were like two or three times safer.
Lower on the road and great aerodynamics it has. very economical as far as the maintenance concerned, now please don't compare it with suzuki mehran's maintenance. I don't know why people always compare the luxry of Mercedez/BMW or any other good car like Honda with the maintenance cost of Suzuki Mehran.
Then it was the best mileage car on petrol as well as CNG. If you want to modify and enjoy sporty car then this is the best car to choose for. In short, if you want to compare the best cars in Pakistan as long as drive comfort is concerned then Honda is the best choice because you can see now a days market for resale as well.

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Plus:

1. Spacious, for a 800cc car. I've drove the Suzuki 800 before, and this QQ is really big in space. Once I was comfortable in the front, I went to the back, and my knees are not even rubbing the front seat back (I'm 1.78m). There are room to tuck in my feet too.

2. Power is so-so, but with the car weighing less than 0.9 ton, pickup is relatively brisk. Wouldn't say much about going fast on long distances, but for everyday cut-and-thrust traffic, it's pretty adequate. Those who say 800cc CMI probably didn't and wouldn't drive anything less than a litre.

3. Economy. Can't really verify but based on its capacity and its weight, I can safely say I can return smelly-smelly 20km/L!

4. Split rear bench. Can't all cars come with this? It really helps in increasing the versatility of an already small car. Maybe Kia can learn something from QQ and change theirs to 60:40 splits.

Minus:

1. The car is flimsy. Yes, flimsy. When you open the doors wide (you'll realise the QQ doors doesn't open as wide as you would want it), you'll see the hinge on the body starting to flex. Not a very safe sign here. Engine bay also presented its shoddy works, with just an L-shaped piece of metal holding on to the reservoir intake. All in, just one word - Flimsy. And provided you don't knock into anything, the car might not last a full 10 years out in the tarmac jungle.

2. Spongy seats. It reminds you of those cheap and thin 4" tilam. You feel every poke if someone sitting behind is pushing his/her knee into the front seat backs. It reminds you also of Osim massage chairs, only it's just plain irritating.

3. Sticky gears. The auto will come next year (as I was told), and the manual gear is a nightmare. It is stiff and sticky as if there were no lubricants inside. I know it's a new car, but the tightness is a killer for, say, a lady driver. I did have some reservations in shoving and yanking the gears, they're just not well-oiled at all.