I believe the Latio is overpriced. One of my friends wanted a small car… but opted for the Latio Hatchback with Impul bodykit. Cost him around 99K in all (at around 1k per month for installments). For me, i thought it was not a very good choice for a small car, as the price of almost 100K was way too steep.

Performance-wise, another story. It’s good in most aspects. But still… I think it’s way way way way overpriced… IMHO la

how could you compare a 1.6 or 1.8 litre sedan to a 2 litre CR-V??

I am so delighted with my new CRV – service, build quality, fuel consumption and etc.

If you are not a ‘T Badge’ die hard fan, buy Latio instead.
Compared to Altis, Latio is ‘All New’ and cheaper too.

hey how about Nissan sylphy, i heard it will be launced soon..

yes, understand. Ugly vs Practicality. it works in country like Japan and europe. however, experience tells that malaysians reject odd looking cars and we kind of influenced by this mentality.

If i’m given a choice between two cars which have equal specs and performance, i’ll go for the one which looks nicer.

i don’t mean to offence anyone here. this is purely my personal thoughts. i noticed a lot of people talked about how ugly the car looks. frankly, to me the car looks reasonably fine. just ask yourself, what gets into your mind when you want to buy a car. being a family man like myself, i prefer to have ample head and legroom. also, the boot space should be big to store a reasonable amount of things. when this kind of requirements get translated to the design, the outcome is like what you have in the latio. the selling point is it’s comfort and spaciousness, not the look.

Just look at the honda city, after the complaints of it’s flower horn look, the designers redesigned the front which in the end had lowered the headroom by quite a lot. so, headroom comfortness had been compromised a bit.

so, it’s always a give and take between the look and the comfortness. you just can’t get a slick-looking, very comfortable and spacious compact sedan. you just can’t get the slick look when the passengers compartment is to be huge and spacious. just my thoughts.

looks so much more nicer!!

The Latio in other parts of the world got CVVT gearbox, and some more, low pricing especially for the hatch. I wish Nissan would terminate the Tan Chong distributorship, and find a new one which is able to increase the brand image with the right pricing for the market.

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4G63T DSM said,
February 4, 2008 @ 9:52 pm

Too bad they don’t offer that very nice blue that they offer in the Versa…wonder why they dont offer a 1.8 hatch with the manual like in other markets.

Surprisingly its priced quite high here. In North America this goes toe to toe with the Yaris price wise but beats it in power and size. They also have the new Sentra meaning they have better market coverage.

The pricing of the Latio just makes TCIM look greedy.

Surprisingly its priced quite high here. In North America this goes toe to toe with the Yaris price wise but beats it in power and size. They also have the new Sentra meaning they have better market coverage.

The pricing of the Latio just makes TCIM look greedy.

Yeah You’re right…. Especially if you see the one one witht the body kit, the front lip has a “horse shoe” and the concept car also has one but a bigger one.
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Yup, i always wondered why they had tht silly looking thing on the bumber kit, but then had a look at the concept and saw it too had this same thingy, ‘cept its a big-a** version!

That said, I’d opt for one without the body kit, looks cleaner.