Friday, October 10, 2008

A step backwards

Perodua recently launched what I interpret to be a mid-life facelift of the hugely popular MyVI model. Although the facelift was barely noteworthy, the main aesthetics of the car remained as it was. And that was a good thing.

The makers of the MyVi has now taken it one step further and is now offering a facelited version of its MyVi Special Edition (SE). Special it is - mostly because it now looks like your run off the mill ah beng ride. Note: No racial stereotyping intended.

On a positive note, the MyVi now looks like it comes with Electronic Brakeforece Distribution (EBD) and Brake Assist(BA) - two technologies I'd expect as standard on any car sold today. Also the idea to ditch the embedded head unit is a boon to those who'd want to quickly snap out the stock unit in favour of one that plays music (as opposed to noise).

So should you buy the MyVi SE? I probably wouldn't. I'd much rather get myself the non-SE premium variant and snap on my own body kit - assuming I even wanted a body kit.

After all, its a worthy reminder that the MyVi is a passenger car. Not a sportster.

For more info, head on over to http://www.perodua.com.my/index.php?section=ourcars&page=myvi

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