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City ZX ('06) will be available by end of this month. apperantly no 2005 stocks currently available at staford. '06 ZX will cost around 3mill. but it's has upgraded CVT and ECU programe. yes Ferio is a good buy or else 2002 city will match your current budjet. but not seen ureg 2002 city around. is mazda out of your taste?

Dominic, sorry to get in late, if u go for the city, I recommend only the BN ZX, so it seems out of ur current budget. If I give u a review of the indian made city, it does around 11~12km/l in city driving, and around 14km/l outstation ( only done several trips to n'eliya and matara). handling is good, smooth steering. sound proofing is bad CVT transmission needs a care, but it's fun to drive, responsive. I checked several recons recently, out of 4 , 3 cars got vibration in start stop driving or hard acceleration. You can feel it on the acc padle or steering. It's comming from faulty CVT unit/cvt fluid, start clutch or some people had messed with inproper ECU resetting without considering the start cluch calibration.

not particularly bro, but out of all reliable cars, lady driver in a civic looks pretty smart, if I am honest with my eye. keep in mind, many modern cars give certain percentage of control system problems like sensor probs, trans, iginition... some people say toyota is giving less probs, but other say some other brand. http://cars.about.com/od/helpforcarbuyers/..._cars_women.htm

sorry about adding too many options. But 'Civic' is also a good candidate.

Hi duncan, your heading best describes what's to be said. " push the throttle system does the rest" type systems can never control idiotic brains