Lancer Or Axio? Update: Bought A Lancer! (Aka The B.r.a.t.t. Thread)

[Bracket]

Hello Experts,

Excited to join Autolanka forums Waited almost for month for an admin to approve me ... anyway, whoever the admin that approved me,

Last December, I sold my good old Maruti WagonR ( 2008 model, 5yrs old, driven for 30000+ Kms) For 1.6mil. I was searching for a good car to buy ever since. ( that's how I ended up on autolanka) So now that I finally got approved I thought it's time to get expert ideas on buying my new vehicle.

My budget is 3.5mil - 4.0mil. I wanted to buy a japanese car and browsing the internet, Finally I decided that there are two contenders:

1. Toyota axio 161 1.3 X Grade (2013)

2. Mitsubishi Lancer EX 1.6 GLX (2013)

Both the cars ( Brand New ) are being sold for 3.5 mil. for the permit. ( Lancer : 3,460,000 to be exact)

My priorities are:

-RELIABILITY
-Fuel Economy

-Spare Parts Availability

-Safety And comfort

-Handling

-Looks

- Resale value

Axio Dealers are mainly bragging of TOYOTA Reliability and Spare parts availability. They assured me I'm in deep trouble if I choose a mitsubishi because there are no spare parts in local market and I would have to buy spare parts only from agent paying a huge amount of money and I have to wait till eternity for mitsubishi agents to import parts from japan. And they also mentioned that unlike axio, I won't be able to sell the mitsubishi for a decent price. (if I wanted to, of course)

I called mitsu agents and they say they have spare parts for any vehicle they sell and I don't have to worry. However the sales guy said he have no idea on 3rd party parts availability.

So as you all can see i'm in a dilemma here. If you were in my position which car would you buy? And please be kind enough to mention why..

This is my first post on autolanka, so please go easy on me if I have offended any rule.

Thanks in advance.

Edited January 6, 2014 by Bracket

[Reckless]

game chicks used to be so innocent and pure.

[Magnum]

game chicks used to be so innocent and pure.

What do you expect bro, now even veddas have vehicles

[Reckless]

What do you expect bro, now even veddas have vehicles

Yeah I guess so. A vehicle is one of the minimum qualifications to lay down a chick these days, which I dont have :'(

[Hoonigan]

Thats pretty crazy for a village chick. well why did you go a for village chick in the first place?

Brother was down with jungle fever

[Reckless]

Brother was down with jungle fever

and no medicine from the poor doc's medicine box could cure that

[Komisiripala]

Long sad tale. One for a beer, that. Or two maybe. Filed under "E" for experience.

[Jaliya48]

Long sad tale. One for a beer, that. Or two maybe. Filed under "E" for experience.

LOL E for experience is one large filing cabinet in neck of the woods!

[Reckless]

Long sad tale. One for a beer, that. Or two maybe. Filed under "E" for experience.

I doubt that Mrs. Rajawasan knows anything about the happy tales which are filed under "A"

[Magnum]

Yeah I guess so. A vehicle is one of the minimum qualifications to lay down a chick these days, which I dont have :'(

eh no!

[Bracket]

you're from Kandy?

did you see a white Lancer EX there?

Yea of course... Matale. ( Gamae - kollek )

A vehicle imported under permit. I snapped few pics of it too. hope the owner would't mind...

It's a 2013 version, Door handles and rear view mirrors are black. It's got a touch audio system, though.

Edited January 13, 2014 by Bracket

[Bracket]

[Magnum]

yes this one

you guys were right, i saw it personally white doesn't look so good

P.S you got pink spot issue on your phone camera

[Bracket]

yes this one

you guys were right, i saw it personally white doesn't look so good

P.S you got pink spot issue on your phone camera

Samsung ne... Now only I noticed

[Magnum]

Samsung ne... Now only I noticed

Samsung and iPhone both have that issue, guess i shouldn't have told you about it. anwyay is it possible to order a car without any audio system?

[Bracket]

Samsung and iPhone both have that issue, guess i shouldn't have told you about it. anwyay is it possible to order a car without any audio system?

Erm.. why should't you?

Sadly no. I cant alter their specs. permit ne

[Magnum]

Erm.. why should't you?

Sadly no. I cant alter their specs. permit ne

cause now you'll see that every single, when i had Galaxy SII i never noticed the pink spot until i read about it online. bdw all Samsung phones dont have it.

Yours would have the CD player right? if you're planning to upgrade it theres a Chinese Android set up it has data, wifi and wifi hot spot too. My cousin had fixed it to his Premio, its pretty good

[Bracket]

cause now you'll see that every single, when i had Galaxy SII i never noticed the pink spot until i read about it online. bdw all Samsung phones dont have it.

Yours would have the CD player right? if you're planning to upgrade it theres a Chinese Android set up it has data, wifi and wifi hot spot too. My cousin had fixed it to his Premio, its pretty good

Ahh no big deal 'bout the pink spot, no worries mate

What is the player's brand? Caska? Does it comes with reversing cam too?

[Magnum]

Ahh no big deal 'bout the pink spot, no worries mate

What is the player's brand? Caska? Does it comes with reversing cam too?

i cant remember the brand but its definitely Chinese

• Reverse cam
• built in navigation with voice direction(Navitel Navigator)
• Android apps
• Built in CD player app which supports songs from a CD, memory card and iPod
• data
• WiFi
• WiFi hotspot i tried Viber, it works flawlessly and YouTube too

If im not wrong it costs around 100K including the navigation

[Reckless]

I prefer the body coloured mirrors and door handles. Bracket, aren’t you interested in the angry face front grill and bumper? Im soo obsessed with that.

[Magnum]

I prefer the body coloured mirrors and door handles. Bracket, aren’t you interested in the angry face front grill and bumper? Im soo obsessed with that.

What exactly is that?

[Bracket]

To tell you the truth reckless, I see that angry face grill like a "yaka" and I hate yakku!

[Reckless]

What exactly is that?

The bangalideshi Evo X you posted had the angry face grill I belive.

To tell you the truth reckless, I see that angry face grill like a "yaka" and I hate yakku!

Exactly. I like that yaka face in a sweet way. Too bad you hate yakku.

[Bracket]

You are not alone reckless..

http://forum.autolanka.com/topic/4503-riced-up-my-lancer/

[Magnum]

I actually like it, it looks agressive

[Reckless]

I actually like it, it looks agressive

Now thats what Im talking about, the projectors looks gorgeous too.