Yardstick Car From Across the World

[GT4_Rule]

Small - Civic
Mid-size - Accord + Camry
Luxury - almost any BMW

 

[Poverty]

These car's arn't the fastest in their group, or the best imo, they're what I see similar car's being compared to most often, and are on sale now.

City car - Not sure, there's a lot of choice.
Hot hatch - VW Golf GTi
Mid sized saloon - BMW 3-series
Cheap roadster - Mazda MX-5
Sport's saloon - Audi RS4
Sports coupe - BMW M3
Sports roadster - Porsche Boxster
Estate - Probably the Audi S4 or S6 Avant.
High performance sportscar - Porsche 911
Luxury saloon - BMW 7 series
Supercar - Ferrari F430

I agree fully with the list apart from the BMW 7 series bit, Id put in the new s-class instead. Ive seen more of them than the 7 already and they are really nice cars.

 

[YSSMAN]

S600, my choise ride if I had the money and was shopping in that particular class... Mmm, twin-turbo V12 power... Too bad it is speed limited to 130MPH in the US!

 

[niky]

Small cars: Honda Jazz

Small sedan: Corolla altis but now civic as its newer.

Big sedan: Accord camry in a tie.

Small luxury sedan: 3-series

Big Lux sedan: 5-series

High end lux sedan: S-class

Low end SUV: CRV, X-trial

Mid range SUV: Toyota Fortuner aka poor man's harrier LOL

Lux SUV: Toyota harrier/ Lexus RX

Super Low low low low end MPV: Toyota avanza

Big sized, cheap MPV: Toyota innova

Lux MPV: Toyota Previa

Supersized MPV: Toyota Alphard (Nissan Elgrand is close but lack of small engine and high price is againts it but is my favorite)

Pick-up: Toyota Hilux

Sports cars, hot hatches...: Available but sold thru importers so exact numbers are not available.... VW Golf GTi, RX8, Evo, imprezas all seem to be selling quite okay.. and oh yah, the MINI.

Then there are also those super high end cars like: Merc M-class, X5, Cayeene that sells in low numbers.

In Malaysia, I would safely say Toyota rules...
You could take an idian ambassador and slap on a toyota badge and most prolly poeple will flock to the showrooms still

I'm glad we don't get the Ambassador.

Seems its a pretty similar list. I didn't mention the Corolla because while it's a sales leader, the amount of technology, kit, engine and amenities are really far behind the competition. It sells, but people are starting to realize what an old and outdated car it is.

I didn't include MPVs because the cars in that class aren't sold anywhere else, but yes, I'd put both the Innova and Avanza in the top spots.

Pick-ups... the Toyota is the sales leader, but the Isuzu D-Max (Chevy Colorado or Isuzu I350 (whatever it's called there!)) is close.

 

[TsLeng]

The corolla altis is the class leader in technology and spec before the new gen civic came out recently.

Here, our 1.8 litre altis comes with VSC, TCS, a gated shifther(important in a society where cars that look and feel expensive is important, its a face thing)
and not to mention a larger interior than the sentra 1.8. Other small touches like optitron meters make it more desirable.

But the sentra 1.8 does not have TCS, VSC and loses out.
The civic is even worse...with the 1.7 in between, ppl either go for the 1.6 sentras or the 1.8 corolla/sentra..

the 7gen civic was a flop here...very little were sold and that is a big blow considering the previous gen civic is the top seller.

oh i forgot...


Mid sized MPV: TOYOTA WISH is king!! even when it is parallel imported with doubtful after sales vs the Honda stream thru official honda dealerships.

Like I said, we are suckers for toyotas here...