June 06'
2 weeks into work... basically we've only had classroom training, with attachments to senior staffs coming by this week. Seems like the work requires tact, quick reflexes, quick thinking and multi-tasking abilities when dealing with customer's calls. sigh... not something a newbie can do, but given time i believe all of us can... i'm not exactly on the job yet so i'd still have another week of honeymoon. till when i get on it, i'll update u guys then!
On another note, yestesrday me and Yennie went around looking at cars. Since that new Proton Satria Neo was launched, we took the opportunity to see it and scout for other cars. Not that i'm gonna buy Neo now, but just gathering info... if i'm gonna buy a car now i'd have to abandon my plan of getting a bike. Still, driving a car to KL for work is basically financial suicide for a fresh grad like me.
Wat's my take on Neo? well, i'd have paid the downpayment yesterday, if :
a) Motorbike plan is abandoned
b) My parent's resistance to 2-door cars is non-existent.
Personally i think this is the best looking car by Proton to date, second after Satria GTi. But built-quality wise, i still think there's room for improvement. The door doesn't close with a thud like Waja... still have those metallic clashing sound when closing the door. Perhaps a better and thicker rubber would be a solution?
I found that moving in and out of the backseat is even harder than previous Satria. Possibly due to it's lowered roof. Yeah, lowered roof would make tall ppl suffer. i dont feel comfortable at all in passenger's seat, but in the driver's seat, it did made me feel good. Backseat space is crampy, could've been improved if the passenger side dashboard moved front a little and the passenger side seat moved forward. The dashboard is quite space consuming, but that's just IMHO.
Bad points, the first thing i noticed is there's one or two rusted screw that bolts the seat rail to the chassis. happened to 3 out of 5 cars i looked into. saw that when moving the chair forward to get into backseat. how could Proton be so careless on this?
Another small gripe is the glove box. yes it is small. while it didn't mater much to me, i found that the box is hard to close. Happened to 4 out of 5 cars i jumped into. My girl was impressed with the opening mechanism but when it is closed we cant feel the "click" that signify it's latched properly. Perhaps this is a special feature by Proton. While my girl was poking and pressing onto the (soft) airbag covers above the glovebox, surprisingly the glovebox opened on itself! We tried that again and again with the same result! Simply Amazing!!! Perhaps this is a special feature by Proton.... lol...
Anyway this is just the outside thingie la... performance wise i have no comments until i get to test drive it. maybe someday soon.
2 weeks into work... basically we've only had classroom training, with attachments to senior staffs coming by this week. Seems like the work requires tact, quick reflexes, quick thinking and multi-tasking abilities when dealing with customer's calls. sigh... not something a newbie can do, but given time i believe all of us can... i'm not exactly on the job yet so i'd still have another week of honeymoon. till when i get on it, i'll update u guys then!
On another note, yestesrday me and Yennie went around looking at cars. Since that new Proton Satria Neo was launched, we took the opportunity to see it and scout for other cars. Not that i'm gonna buy Neo now, but just gathering info... if i'm gonna buy a car now i'd have to abandon my plan of getting a bike. Still, driving a car to KL for work is basically financial suicide for a fresh grad like me.
Wat's my take on Neo? well, i'd have paid the downpayment yesterday, if :
a) Motorbike plan is abandoned
b) My parent's resistance to 2-door cars is non-existent.
Personally i think this is the best looking car by Proton to date, second after Satria GTi. But built-quality wise, i still think there's room for improvement. The door doesn't close with a thud like Waja... still have those metallic clashing sound when closing the door. Perhaps a better and thicker rubber would be a solution?
I found that moving in and out of the backseat is even harder than previous Satria. Possibly due to it's lowered roof. Yeah, lowered roof would make tall ppl suffer. i dont feel comfortable at all in passenger's seat, but in the driver's seat, it did made me feel good. Backseat space is crampy, could've been improved if the passenger side dashboard moved front a little and the passenger side seat moved forward. The dashboard is quite space consuming, but that's just IMHO.
Bad points, the first thing i noticed is there's one or two rusted screw that bolts the seat rail to the chassis. happened to 3 out of 5 cars i looked into. saw that when moving the chair forward to get into backseat. how could Proton be so careless on this?
Another small gripe is the glove box. yes it is small. while it didn't mater much to me, i found that the box is hard to close. Happened to 4 out of 5 cars i jumped into. My girl was impressed with the opening mechanism but when it is closed we cant feel the "click" that signify it's latched properly. Perhaps this is a special feature by Proton. While my girl was poking and pressing onto the (soft) airbag covers above the glovebox, surprisingly the glovebox opened on itself! We tried that again and again with the same result! Simply Amazing!!! Perhaps this is a special feature by Proton.... lol...
Anyway this is just the outside thingie la... performance wise i have no comments until i get to test drive it. maybe someday soon.
posted by Andrew at
1:58 pm
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