Mobil Rakyat...new cars

[Jaime C]

What do you think about the engine's power with the Veloz? I imagine that my driving will be lots of "stop & go" on local roads (running errands, etc.) with a few longer drives each month.

Power seems fine. We’re not racing it anywhere. The CVT transmission certainly seems better than our Livina.

 

[Pak Tani]

Forget white and black. Anyone who wants to be hip and trendy on four wheels chooses stone grey. Well, that’s what the (mainly German) car manufacturers think.

It’s the new trend color for cars, which looks a lot like freshly poured cement or the skin of a mouse. Now car manufacturers give it naturally a much more creative and poetic (read: commercial) name. From 'Crayon' with Porsche to 'Brooklyn Grau' at BMW.

I don’t see it happening here, It will be white, black and then silver for quite some time to come.

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Some of us may remember drawing watercolors in kindergarten. How at the end of the hour the color palette with 6 colors had degenerated into 1 large spot of paint with a light brown color. Well, it turns out this color has a name: Sand Khaki Pearl. And Honda provided the HRV with it. See it and weep.

 

[vocalneal]

Some of us may remember drawing watercolors in kindergarten. How at the end of the hour the color palette with 6 colors had degenerated into 1 large spot of paint with a light brown color. Well, it turns out this color has a name: Sand Khaki Pearl. And Honda provided the HRV with it. See it and weep.

Volvo used to call it Sahara Yellow. Blaster Bates called it shiite brown

 

[jstar]

I think Volvo called it Sahara Beige? It was a bit more yellowish.

 

[jstar]

The Mazda CX-5 is also available in one of these colors btw, it is called Zircon Sand. They call it a metallic but in real life it looks rather dof.

 

[jstar]

The number two is also a Toyota: the Corolla. It is mainly the sedan version but the Corolla Cross, the SUV / crossover version, is also doing rather well. Even in Indonesia, where you would pay approx. 460-500 juta for that (hybrid) model.

But if you look closely, you see that the local cars do have older technologies ….. and -not unimportantly- are not prone to many recalls.

Toyota in the US is recalling (practically) all Corolla Cross cars since there seems to be a flaw and construction error in the dashboard that could give issues with the passenger airbag.

Now that’s a nice example about communication. Toyota Europe states its cars are not affected. Clear. I haven’t heard anything from Toyota Indonesia (yet). Obviously you could argue it’s probably only applicable for left hand drive car markets but still….

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[jstar]

Jaguar Land Rover will now call itself JLR and that includes a new logo. So from now on, the company communication will be interspersed with this JLR logo.

The big news is that JLR will be positioning Range Rover, Defender and Discovery as brands. Currently they are model lines. For example, the Range Rover and Range Rover Sport are still formally Land Rover models, as are the Discovery, Discovery Sport and Defender.

There are obviously other examples in history where a model became a brand. A recent one is Corvette. I also remember British Leyland’s Princess, the worst car I ever owned.

It’s rather unclear what ‘Land Rover’ will be, a badge?

 

[flavus]

Range Rover being split off makes sense (try saying Land Rover Range Rover without sounding silly!), for Discovery and Defender I'm not so sure

With the Corvette example, or Lexus, Infiniti, Genesis - the original brand still exists as well

 

[flavus]

A quick google search is telling me that Tesla guarantees their batteries for 150k miles (240k km) and typical lifespan is 300-500k miles.

In the US carmakers are required to guarantee their batteries for at least 8 years / 100k miles (161k km), meaning range degradation no more than 30% or they have to give you a new battery pack

https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/advice/ev-battery-warranty

Kia actually threw in an extra two years, though they halve it if the car is sold to another owner.

So yes, these batteries last. Not just on Teslas, the Leaf has a decent record too (even though the old models have air cooled batteries that degrade more)

 

[flavus]

The opposite is also true. Many accidents lately in our kampung from electric scooters hitting each other and pedestrians because they couldn't hear each other.

I'm a fan of EVs but e-scooters are a mistake IMHO.

That being said, in some markets the lack of sound problem is solved: at low speeds EVs must emit an artificial sound so pedestrians can hear them. Not sure if this also applies to hybrids that can travel on battery power alone!

Electric Kias even do a beep beep sound when reversing, like trucks.