That's not terrible if there are hills or city traffic involved.
I usually suggest friends fix their old cars fully instead of buying new cars - but Malaysia does have cheap cars...
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do we really have cheap cars? for real? my 1.3 saga cvt costed me like RM45000
yeah to be fair, my saga was cool. friends who bought higher cc car was complaining. haha
but the car do struggle a bit when going uphill and downhill.
That is less than half of what I'm selling my 2019 Mazda for. Literally less than half.
Yes, Malaysia does have cheap cars :-p
when i bought my car, i was a junior resident doctor. technically it cost me 10 months of my salary that time. people was saying i should buy a more expensive car that time, but i was like naah