My Car: The introduction

I'll be writing up on my car from now on, based on what I do to it, lol.

This first post will be a general overview of my car ~



The current car I'm driving now, is a humble Proton Wira year 2000 model, 1.3 litres, sedan version. It's deemed by many as a highly under-powered car... But for me, well, it's my first car, so it's a great car, no matter how I or others look at it =D

From the time of purchase, it's been really reliable; being maintain consistently by sending it for regular maintenance, changing parts that wears out over time (i.e. air-cond stuff, belts, etc.). Other than the occasional air-conditioning problems now and then, it's been a very reliable car to me =)

I've done some upgrades and mods to the car over the years, which I'll list out in coming posts. Suffice to say, it's still a humble car, albeit a little noisier than before, hehe.

I'm hoping it'll serve me well for the coming years, so I plan to "invest" in it, making sure it does not maintain it's performance as how it was purchased.. rather, perform BETTER than that over the coming years :p

My plans for the car is not over the top though, I'll stick with normal mods a slightly-more-than-average driver would usually do upon his/her car ~

So, stay tuned for it :p

FYI: it will not be placed with a forced-induction system, for those who think I'm "that crazy", haha. Neither would the "heart" be transplanted, rest assured =D

The future, with the ever-increasing fuel prices ~

I came across this video recently. A good suggestion to how the World might be one day thanks to the continuously increasing prices of petrol :p





I found it very creative =D

Car fetish ~

I'm suddenly getting the craze about cars ~ :p I've actually been interested in cars ever since I was in college, but not until recently only did I start earning my own income and actually able to afford those mods.

So occasionally I'll be blogging about what I've done to my car. :p At least something to keep this blog alive ehhh ? :p

On a side note, ever since the petrol price has increased, I've not actually filled petrol for my car yet... but imagine, about what.. 5-6 years ago, it took Rm50 to supply my car (Wira if I may add..) with a full tank of petrol. Today, it takes double that amount!! I used to admire cars which could fill over RM100 worth of petrol during those days (that time, I used to equate powerful cars with big petrol tanks, hahaha), now, it's a nightmare!!

but don't get me wrong... I actually support the move to reduce to subsidy ~ somehow I feel it's a good move to make us more ... independent, if you will. If you think about it the way the Government wants you to, it's true, they can't shield us forever when it comes to fuel subsidy. So sooner or later, we'll still have to face it.

The thing which I don't agree, is with our current salary range... the petrol may still be the cheapest in the region, but our salary is also one of the lowest as well. With the sudden rise of petrol price, it comes to no surprise that everything else will follow suit.. Some even declaring a hyper-inflation. I don't know how bad it's going to be, but one thing's for sure, there's no cheap way out of this....

Hopefully things won't get too out of hand (by saying this, I'm pretty sure things will get ugly, but hopefully it won't be too much..)...