Poll That time is coming!

[Gianclaudio]

So, yesterday i stopped by a used car dealer that happened to have in stock a top of the line Peugeot 208! I actually bumbed with the old owner when she was driving into the store to sell the car last thursday, so i knew it woukd be there yesterday... Here it is...
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Do i have to say i fell in love with it? Its so damn nice!!!!! Difference is, if i happen to get a.car and it is a 208 it has to be a manual... That one is AT, tho i guess those paddle shifters will be missed from a aesthetic point of view...
Tho it still have that reliability thing... Just talked about it to a cousin that owned a 207, she said the car is a lemon, the body metal is weak and burglars just pull the doors out with their hands... Is a 208 worth 60k is what comes to my mind...

The 208 is a very nice car indeed, and the most "premium" feeling along VW, off all mainstream brands. I've read the Mercosur 208 isn't build to the same standard of the european one. The firsts 208 that came into my country and the one I drove, were euros, so can't tell you if the locallly made is worth the 60k reais. Never mind the auto tranny on Peugeot, they aren't good at it, but there's a new Aisin 6 speed auto tranny which is getting very good reviews. The old 5 speed ones, both auto and manual, aren't very good. When I drove the 308 and compared to my Megane, just about everything on the 308 felt better or more refined, except the transmission. The Renault one is very good and the Pug, very wobbly and rubbery feeling, with loooooong throw. Both 208 and 308 ride quite well, but you have to get used to the small steering way, particulary on the 208.

Beijo nas bundas :*

 

[JohnnyP1997]

The 208 is a very nice car indeed, and the most "premium" feeling along VW, off all mainstream brands. I've read the Mercosur 208 isn't build to the same standard of the european one. The firsts 208 that came into my country and the one I drove, were euros, so can't tell you if the locallly made is worth the 60k reais. Never mind the auto tranny on Peugeot, they aren't good at it, but there's a new Aisin 6 speed auto tranny which is getting very good reviews. The old 5 speed ones, both auto and manual, aren't very good. When I drove the 308 and compared to my Megane, just about everything on the 308 felt better or more refined, except the transmission. The Renault one is very good and the Pug, very wobbly and rubbery feeling, with loooooong throw. Both 208 and 308 ride quite well, but you have to get used to the small steering way, particulary on the 208.

Beijo nas bundas :*

Beijo nas bundas vc nunca esquece! XD
Im looking at the Mit Lancer at the moment, opinions?

 

[Gianclaudio]

Too old now, and also, have you checked the price of spare parts in Brazil? Because everything imported in Brazil has all those damm taxes over it....

 

[JohnnyP1997]

Too old now, and also, have you checked the price of spare parts in Brazil? Because everything imported in Brazil has all those damm taxes over it....

I know, yes the lancer is too old, tho the engine on that... Mitsubishi made it national, so it aint imported anymore... Also checked out the punto sporting, tho its too heavy and the hyundai is pretty much faster! But man i seriously loved the 208... So pissed it is a lemon!!!

 

[JohnnyP1997]

The VW Golf comfortline 1.4 tsi MT is also a possibility, unlikely to happen because the car costs 78k and i doubt my dad will like that, tho i consider it a possibility cuz once i asked him if he would give me a GTI, to which he said, lets see!

 

[JohnnyP1997]

This is what the thing looks like at the moment...

With my favorite being the Golf (duh! Its german!!), next the lancer toe on toe with the civic (mainly because the civic has a very nice interior while the lancer looks like a car of the 90's inside, but the lancer is a much better car equipment and performance wise, if we disconsider the rearview camera on the civic and the i-mid... The lancer has a 2din audi system whoch looks pre historic!), then comes the peugeot toe on toe with the hyundai (i like the peugeot better by far actually, but the fact of so many people saying it is a lemon gets me worried about it... The hyundai is cool but still, the peugeot has something special that the hyundai doesnt have, probably because the peugeot looks 3 classes above all these cars but the golf!)

 

[JohnnyP1997]

So, this last week was pretty much about going to dealers... I went over to mitsubishi 3 times, ford and had a ride on my cousin's hyundai HB20!
So about the lancer... We now have the american lancer 2008 for sale!!! Yaaaaayy!!! No thats definetely not cool... Mitsubishi took off the 18 inch wheels and replaced them with 16 inch wheels, took off all the sports bumbers and replaced them with casual ones... The interior looks sweet, tho the exterior is identical to the lancer 2008 from US!

2016 Mitsubishi Lancer MT (Brazilian)

2008 Mitsubishi Lancer ES (US Version)

The ford, i loved it more then all cars i saw, @Just_me and @Gianclaudio thanks for the advices! The factory sound system is ridiculously awesome! Now, it is a brazilian fiesta, and as a brazilian model the interior is not as nice as the european and other international models.... Its full plastic

Im a bit worried about it cause a bunch of people say it rattles a lot, and a salesman in mitsubishi who has a fiesta told me it isnt good performance wise... While it is faster then the hb20... I guess he was talkin in comparison to the lancer tho... The fiesta here has a 1.6 sigma engine tested on the dino at 142hp and 17.4kgfm of torque! Its my favourite on paper and in the showroom, still havent got the chance to test it in the wild, never got a ride in one also...
The hb20, it is a great car, i got the chance to drive it for a bit so i took it, its very nice, tho with so many on the streets and with my cousin and a couple other friends already owning it, it is waay too mainstream! If the fiesta doesnt satisfy me on the street tho, it is the take! Presented 135hp on the dino.
Oh, i also stopped by VW, checked out the Fox, its nice, but not great! Sound system sucks, no bass at all just like the hb20, and the engine is the weakest among all of these, only 125hp on the dino...

 

[JohnnyP1997]

Oh, this is the old 2015 lancer, the cool one, not that s****y new one...

Yes this was the base model for the lancer the MT, the grey one in the previous post is the new MT, guess why im pissed at mitsubishi now?
To get this looks from factory to the lancer now u got to go for the GT, top of the line, and it costs 97 grand! Yup, around 35k dollars!!! For a 2.0 liter 160hp lancer! Thats EVO X money!!!