Best car now for city driving in terms of FC

**ericson21** · January 15th, 2012 01:46 PM

^ +1 ako dun sa celerio bro renzo. :D

**cnxpr08** · January 15th, 2012 02:58 PM

from what i've read in the ts accdg. to her wife's consideration go for the new alto k10 a/t.

**GTi** · January 16th, 2012 12:24 AM

Originally Posted by renzo_d10

Parang ang pangit naman kung Crosswind dadalhin ni wifey pero mag-isa lang siya parati sa loob.

IMO, okay na kay wifey yung Toyota Vios. You can't go wrong with it. Practical. Small. Next would be the Chevrolet Spark. Cute & Cheap. One more would be the Celerio. ;)

No side repeaters but what the heck.

Well she wanted an economical and dependable matic car with turn signal repeaters...

**rollyic** · January 16th, 2012 01:14 AM

Originally Posted by stolen*soul

1) most economical in terms of FC - route will be Bacoor - Coastal - EDSA - Ortigas - C5 - Eastwood

suggestion lang po. para mas econimcal ang byahe nya, dapat ito ang route nya:
BACOOR - COASTAL - AIRPORT ROAD - NICHOLS - C5 - EASTWOOD.
or
BACOOR - SLEX - BICUTAN EXIT - LOWER BICUTAN - C6 - MANGGAHAN FLOODWAY - SANTOLAN PASIG - EASTWOOD.

**niky** · January 16th, 2012 12:09 PM

Originally Posted by GTi

That's odd... I've never heard anyone mention it before. Not among any of my friends or relatives, or anyone in Tsikot. Bro niky owns a Crosswind XTO A/T and so far I have never heard him complain about transmission woes. Isolated case kaya?

From what I've seen, it's not categorically worse than other Japanese automatics of the 90's. (Which, in my opinion, all suck to maintain) But I've heard other people complain about electronic failure. The transmission itself, though, is relatively durable because it's unstressed. Our XTO started to have electronic glitches (wouldn't go into first gear in "D") at over 150k, but it was months before we decided to fix it...

... we'd simply shift into "L" when we needed first gear. Obviously, it was just a solenoid problem and was eventually fixed. The transmission itself needs an overhaul sometime in the next year, though. I wouldn't know, I'm not the one taking care of it, anymore. Uncle's XUV still okay. Brother-in-law bought an XUV with the AT with 200k kms, still okay, no slipping, but slow as heck.

Actually... that's the biggest problem with the Crosswind AT. Slow as fricking heck.

**onewaytrip** · January 17th, 2012 06:27 PM

the current city and jazz are NOT impressive in terms of FC.

**nyoobi** · January 18th, 2012 04:42 PM

Honda City 1.3 E, facelift version ka na for your wife. Mas okay ang feel ng naka Honda compared sa mga dami ng taxi na vios.

**stolen*soul** · January 19th, 2012 09:04 AM

Guys,

Thanks for all the comments. We currently have an isuzu trooper and my wife drove it for several years. Kaso malakas siya sa diesel at hindi na maganda ang performance so naghahanap si wifey na pang everyday pamasok. I'll be looking into the cars you mentioned and i'll keep you posted kung nakabili na kami

*rollyic

sir i assume lesser po ang traffic (or mas maikli daan pero mas matraffic?) kaya economical dito compared sa normal route nya? thanks sa suggestion!

BACOOR - COASTAL - AIRPORT ROAD - NICHOLS - C5 - EASTWOOD.
or
BACOOR - SLEX - BICUTAN EXIT - LOWER BICUTAN - C6 - MANGGAHAN FLOODWAY - SANTOLAN PASIG - EASTWOOD.

**GTi** · January 19th, 2012 12:41 PM

Originally Posted by stolen*soul

Guys,

Thanks for all the comments. We currently have an isuzu trooper and my wife drove it for several years. Kaso malakas siya sa diesel at hindi na maganda ang performance so naghahanap si wifey na pang everyday pamasok. I'll be looking into the cars you mentioned and i'll keep you posted kung nakabili na kami

*rollyic

sir i assume lesser po ang traffic (or mas maikli daan pero mas matraffic?) kaya economical dito compared sa normal route nya? thanks sa suggestion!

BACOOR - COASTAL - AIRPORT ROAD - NICHOLS - C5 - EASTWOOD.
or
BACOOR - SLEX - BICUTAN EXIT - LOWER BICUTAN - C6 - MANGGAHAN FLOODWAY - SANTOLAN PASIG - EASTWOOD.

We just sold our 2002 Trooper last month. Engine performance is very, very satisfactory. Napakabilis ng sasakyan na yan! What makes you feel that its performance is degrading? Though I have to agree about the fuel consumption part. It has been getting pretty thirsty lately... Since sanay na pala siya sa malaking sasakyan at Isuzu pa, Crosswind na!

Although siguro maninibago siya sa kupad niyan pero hey, that's what you pay for better gas mileage. Perhaps you can just consider installing some convenient performance mods.