I haven’t written any proper blog entry for quite some time. The feelings just don’t exist for me to write anything! Something came to my mind that I feel IÂ should jot down.
After breakfast earlier today, dad brought us to a car dealer to look at cars! Guess he’s slowly looking for a new multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) to replace mum’s Honda Odyssey which is 4 years old (Coming to 5 soon).
We were looking at Ipsum, Alphard, Harrier, Estima & Impul Murano until a silver Mazda RX-8caught my attention! Serious, that car looked damn prestigious! Pretty sure that dad will buy it if we’ve got space to park at home. I’ll put it as a poor man’s sports car!
I surely have my reasons for saying so:
- Costs only Ringgit Malaysia $150k or so. Which is around SGD$70k. Around US$40.
- Sports car at only 1.3L. Simply too weak for a sports car! How am I going to race? I’m going to be safe on the roads (Provided I don’t install a turbocharger in)!
- Automatic Transmission (AT)Â - I hate driving ‘manual’ cars. I’m going to love this car.
My views about getting a sports car which coss 400,000 EUROs remains - I’m not going to spend such a huge amount on a car when I can get myself a huge bungalow and not a moving house. Doh! Â
I conclude that if I were to find this car suitable for my living in the near future, I will get one. This sports car is really different. =)
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I also like this car, but I heard that if you’re driving this in Spore, its fuel consumption can kill you. Righto Goonie?
1.3L Rotary Engine, not just any crap engine you find on every day cars. In terms of power, it is comparable to a 2.6L piston engine. Then again… 220-250bhp not powerful, imo. Good enough to zip thru everyday traffic, but not for racing. Wanna race, get something with 450bhp and above.