Guys, general speaking, if you have only under 90k BUDGET or even make it 100k BUDGET, i can personally guarantee the market have no cars better than an INSPIRA.
Don't comes out excuse like :
1) Its a Proton still a crap car
2) Proton parts is not good
This 2 excuse comes out very often when people compare INSPIRA with VIOS/FORTE/CITY.
I ask you 1 thing, you wan to buy cheap parts from Proton or expensive imported parts?
Another thing, the parts in the INSPIRA mostly is from Mitsubishi not Proton.
Then if you are talking about the 3S : SPACE, STABILITY and most importanly SPEED.
1) SPACE : needless to say, Inspira offer better rear space, front space and boot space.
2) STABILITY : Although Inspira comes out from Proton, but personally after testing it, the stability + handling is still not as good as other LOTUS HANDLING car comes out from Proton (Gen2, Neo, Persona) Maybe what they target is comfort consumers. But its still way better than VIOS/CITY/FORTE when you comes into high speed cruise because this car is meant for high speed.
3) SPEED : Ya its a bit laggy compared to VIOS/CITY/FORTE which comes with responsive engine. But with 2.0l you can simply takeover those 3 cars on highway/city road with tiptronic i think.
1 more reminder, if you are talking about real performance please la dont go for this segment kind of cars. Go for those really comes with a performance engine. If not, 4 of these cars power are more than enough in daily usage.
If you ask me to compare INSPIRA with CITY/FORTE/VIOS, i would only think of 1 different which is the "
BRAND" because it is still an PROTON.
If you talk about performance, safety, stability = PLEASE LA TEST ALL THE 4 CARS YOURSELF and YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WHAT I MENTION ABOVE!