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The car market is a joke now. Prices have gone up steeply in the last few weeks particularly in the sub 6-Million budget since the cheapest unregistered cars cost above 6.5 million (the altos and miras) as a result Viva Elites are quoted at close to 4.5 million. Very little sadly, and your requirement on something newer-looking might be challenging. what are you looking for ? Hatch? Sedan? Station Wagon ? Can suggest models once you've narrowed down. So basically - very few good choices for that budget. The Indian Alto's are an obvious choice if you're looking for something made in the last decade and a half. Otherwise you're looking at the turn of the century. The more well known models have ridiculous asking prices. Models like the Toyota Soluna and the Honda City 3rd gen would be possible around 3.5 maybe a Wingroad/AD wagon -all these would be from the early 2000s. IF you're ok with manual gears, then the doors open up a bit - manuals are getting hard to sell nowadays specially for models that have a corresponding auto counterpart. So are diesels.

IS the country right though?

(this is the 2nd time I'm giving this answer last time too I was wrong) Deepal S7?

Yes. The vehicle in the image is a Toyota Taisor. Correct. Your turn.

Nein! Das icht from Asia!

but what if it was lady bank manager used as a second car?

exactly my point... I have seen many people asking if the Fronx we get here is from India ... same situation with the Baleno few years back.

Yes. Even if the belts were somehow designed to last longer (it does not have a long life either - due to the frequent contact with high temperature oil, and these engines are pushed - close to 130 HP from a 1.0L generating high temperatures) there would still be potential future issues. Agent and mechs recommend belt change at 80 (as opposed to the usual 100 mark) but as mentioned based on previous oil change intervals etc, there could be failure much earlier. So basically once you're around 80,000 you're playing a bit of Russian roulette. This is well documented with the Ford Ecoboost, the P10A2 is a recent entrant, I still have not been able to find any material on the City though (it does run a different engine p10a6) - I mean surely the Thailand users would have crossed the 100,000 mark on their City's by now.

e wunata mahattaya Fronx is Indian noh... not a single one of our hath-muthu-paramparawa brought an Indian car. Shick! Can't I import a used Fronx from Japan even for 12 Mill ?

Since there has been no update, let me drop some clues. 1. The car is NOT from an obscure Chinese Brand. 2. If I reveal the BADGE on this particular car you will realize it is from one of the most if not most ,well known and popular brands. 3. It is also not Dodge or anything Murrican.

Not a Dodge Charger (though the news of US suggesting SL import vehicles from Murrica was all over the news this week) ...and funnily enough it is NOT an obscure Chinese Brand. Far from it! Let's wait for more answers and I will drop clues. 😄

aha that made it easier!

Sigh! This is a Chinese EV isn't it?

In other words, the new belt get's to say 'I can't be blamed... it's the previous belts fault' On a serious note, It would be interesting to see , while the wet-belt driven engine will certainly have this risk, how it holds up on the P10A6- I haven't been able to find anything yet on any forums from Thailand - where the 1.0 Liter variant was launched a few years ago. Suggest OP do some research on it if he's still interested in the City.

@sathyajithj99 - Apologies - I misread your comment as 1st Gen Pajero. When I was going to comment that @john cooper was correct I noticed you had actually mentioned 2nd Gen. So yeah, Sathyajith is correct and sorry for the delay and the confusion.

Very good guess but not a Pajero MK1

it did come at the bottom half of googles suggestions below even the other european brands. Ok -since we use lights to identify cars a lot here let's try something different. The rear part is a dead give away.

tell that to the G superior-badged Premio fans who managed to get me kicked out of a popular Facebook group last year BTW the Fronx-Taisor episode reminds me of the counter-campaign the Daihatsu agent did a few years back with the terios implying that the rush was somehow an inferior and dodgy product without warranty ouch!

Yes there are multiple instances of belts dying a premature death - but having spoken to a few Honda Mechs they suggest going for the change around 80 to prevent it going kaput sometime between 80-100 which as per them is the usual mileage this happens. Best-case scenarios WRT to a Wet belt is having to replace the belt at whatever mileage without any other repairs. "I have good news and bad news" "what's the bad news?" "Well your timing belt is on it's last legs we need to replace it" "Whaaaat? at Just 75,000 KM? My dads 110 ran 450,000 km with it's original timing belt and then another 75,000 km with some rubber bands from arpico" "dude this is a different type of engine" "OK what's the good news?" "We only need to replace the timing belt" Yup and it's mostly turbo charger. So more often than not you get a combo-deal like the guy I met at a Honda shop who had to tow his car got. He had done 100,000 + oblivious to the fact that he had to check his timing belt around 80. He had to replace the turbo as well Given OP's emphasis on warranty - the Fronx with agent warranty looks the safer bet. If he had boiled down his choices to a Raize and a Bezza - selecting the Bezza at 8.5M is a no-brainer the Toyo badge is not worth a 3-4 more million.

First of all, we cannot predict resale value at this point most of these models are new (maybe not the Raize) so we do not yet know what kind of issues/trends to expect with these. Usually due to various import regulations and tax structures changing, resale value of cars increase - however if they do remain constant then obviously you will lose a bit of resale value when you buy a brand new car - but this is Sri Lanka so that is a very remote possibility. The City RS Drives well - it squeezes a lot out of a 1L engine. Decently appointed. A sedan in an age of wanna-be hatchbacks. (deserves some respect) I do have a gripe with the interior materials though. The seats have a Mahendra/Boleroesque feel to it mostly due to the material used - it just feels a tad cheap. I don't see a 'massive' hit on resale value. Honda's sell well here - the GP1's had their oil burn issues, the GP5/Grace/Vezel unholy trinity had recurring dual clutch issues, the Civic FK6 with it's timing-belt-turbo combo issue, and yet none of them have taken 'massive' resale value hits. Fronx - I'm yet to drive or be driven in one but at first glance it appears to be rather compact and snug, and same with the sonet. The Raize, as you mentioned is quite spartan - the variant that TL is offering. Wouldn't 15.5 Mn fetch you a recon 2023 ish JDM Yaris Cross? The other alternative is the 1.0L Turbo Nissan Almera which goes for around 14 Mn I think? Badge impression aside, It would not be in the same league as the other options. It costs way less so it's a more value for money option but the looks are not everyone's cup of tea, and while most of the 1.0 L options discussed were turbo charged the Bezza comes with a NA 1L engine - OP might find it quite sluggish compared to the fronxes and the cities. Too early to tell specifically with regard to the City but Honda did use this with the tenth gen civic 1L variant so can be expected. As i mentioned earlier these Honda P10 engines make a crazy amount of power from 1L engines as a result these engines run hot a lot -the problem is the belts are also located inside the engine lubricated by oil. Oil that gets very hot and in turn the belts start disintegrating around the 100,000 km mark. This will lead to particle build up in the oil, cause clogging and affect the engine including the turbo. Depending on how frequent the oil changes are done and how you run can change this a bit - for instance I know a guy who had to replace this belt at 200,000 km on a Civic and then there are those who has to do it at 80,000 Km. But the risk is there. As of now the belt will cost around 125,000/- and replacement cost will vary per garage/mechanic. The agent will quote an arm and a leg. These would NOT be straightforward warranties - not quite scams but you will have a tough time claiming them. If you're concerned about warranties I think a grey import is not your cup of tea - you might be better off with a fronx.

well I had to google 'top european ev's in Australia' to find this. Apparently it's an EXcellent car for 30 year olds as electric vehicles are at a critical point in it's eVOLution and VOlume.

This too from the land of the dragon? It's becoming increasingly tough to keep track of vehicles from there.

Thomas Massie? 😛 so we are looking at a Massey Ferguson?