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Nah, its even shorter than the Kwid ne? Besides, it looks like an avocado had sex with an apple

Sri Lankan vehicle market is mostly driven based on the tax structure. With the current tax structure, hybrid vehicles are not attractive in Sri Lankan market. No one is going to pay 4 mil+ tax for a aqua or 8mil+ for a Prius.

The Axio is based on the Vitz and is Toyota's entry level sedan for the Japanese market. The Premio on the other hand is a mid sized family sedan. The Premio will have a nicer and more refined ride and a better finish inside. The Axio...well..it feels a bit mmore hard and jerky on the ride and the interior plastics feel cheap. In terms of tech...because you are looking at a newer Axio it will have better tech than an older Premio. Now...you need to realize than in SL there is a lot of fake sh!x for sale. The G "Superior Package" grade ONLY comes with a 2L engine. There are NONE of these in SL. Before the 2016 facelift, Toyota dealers offered a "G Superior" dress up package to the 1.5L F EX Package grade. About 2% of the so called G Superior in SL are these actual Toyota dealership installed G Superior dressup package. Because they put it on the hghest grade of the 1.5L (and 1.8L) you get things like electric seats, LED lights, etc....98% of the G Superior in SL are normal 1.5L F that SL car dealers have installed using used or chinese OEM parts. How can you know if it is a actual G Superior dressup package from the Toyota dealer...in a used car you cannot. You will need to see the auction sheet (which is faked in SL anyway) or the build-spec-sheet from the Toyota dealer in Japan. So..there is a 98% chance that you are paying a lot of extra money for some fake badges. In my view..you are better off buying a car that is actually advertised and badged and sold as a 1.5L F EX Package. When you look at the ID plate if the model number is NZT260-AEXEK then it is a 1.5L F. If it is NZT260-AEXEK-X (or some other letter) then it is a 1.5L F EX Package or a L Package or something. The Axio WxB has to have black seats with white stitching (or vice versa). WxB means white (by) black. Local dealers sold of standard G grades with WxB badges.

A few things to consider. #1 There is an element of Sri Lankan value addition here. If there wasn't this car would be even more expensive. #2 Unlike Micro this manufacturing plan brought in foreign investment as its a joint partnership with Mahindra of India. #3 I agree on the gearbox option. Until they install an auto box, it won't be attractive at that price. It does need bigger wheels as well.

Man, I still chuckle everytime I hear DFSK Glory. Nothing glorious about losing compression in a cylinder or having a door handle come out on you. Kangkung Stirfry.. now thats a name I'm gonna use for my cat.

this is true : I mean I'd prefer a loud noisy uncomfortable Indian ride over : DFCC Gloryhole, Golden Dragon Qz34509JK9102Z3fs , Kangkung Stirfry xml09871sfd etc.

Same as the Renault Kwid

As Shylock from 'The Merchant of Venice' by the great William Shakespeare says: "I am content."

Well now that you have the Grace in your equation, it's definitely more "car" than the axio. Butbthe DCT risk is there, still many people do buy the Grace weighing in the risk factor. Why don't you actually test drive a few cars and see ?usually you get "naah this isn't for me" for some cars and some cars just feel right. P.S : I'm not surprised your sister suggested Grace Many ladies like the Fit GP5 and the Grace ...a friends sister was so infatuated with the GP5, and despite my warning about DCT issues (she was on a tight budget) her reply was "ane aiye I can't think of any other car than this now" ?

@danuja001, please refrain from creating multiple threads for each car you are considering. Appreciate if you can discuss your options here. Threads merged. Thread title changed.

Because of 95% wheel alignment machine operators in SL are not educated well regarding the subject and having no tacit knowledge and common scenes required to do it, better to use with original settings if you have no issue with uneven tire wear or any other issue.

Factory does the wheel alignment before sending it out. Generally they do one at 1000/5000/10000 km depending on the vehicle.

Toyota seems to be moving away from hybrids to turbocharged direct injection in the standard segment. Reason could be high system cost of Li-ion batteries and additional parts does not make a good business case unless for premium segment.

There are exeptions, cars like the Fit GP1 Hybrid and 2014/15 WagonRs still have demand and hold their values alright (not best,not horrible either). But then you look at the Fit GP5, Vezel, X-trail and some less common hybrid models like the Hyundai Ioniq, those lose value like a forest fire due to being an uncommon model or having unreliability issues. Your friend is right in the fact that after 5 years of typical use in our lankan enviornment, a hybrid will start having repairs, battery issues & other issues not related to the hybrid drivetrain. If manufacturers truly want to save the planet, they should do something about these hybrids because these cars get expensive and are throwaway items after 5-10 years. Also, what @iRage says is pretty much all of it summed up.

Well..the thing is most of these cars came with a system that was covered for 10years. Our guys interpreted that as after 10 years the system would degrade so much that it would need significant revamp, again this is not entirely true. There are vehicles that are nearing the 10 year mark (or even exceeded ?) where after a battery refurbishment or swap the system does work relatively well. But since battery and Hybrid technology has significantly changed and continue to change..there would be challenges to find replacement batteries, etc...for these vehicles..So there is a timeline for the system (i.e. a limited time period where the manufacturers would find it feasible to keep making replacement parts and support these vehicles).If you look at 2014/2015 models there are at the last stage of the 10 year old mark (i.e. the person buying a 2014 might be the only person who could use it. Thus, the person buying it will have to sell it for literally nothing, therefore the person would not want to spend that much on a vehicle that he would literally have to give away. However, you have to understand that cars are supposed to depreciate. So you cannot expect to buy a car for X and then hope to sell it back at X (slightly lesser or at times even more).

my choice too... thing is it's hard to find them for sale ....but usually they are in good condition.

for 5.5Mn personally I would try to nego. for a 2014-2015 Mazda 06

depends on your requirement and what you expect of a car. Premio is an aged platform but a car that kind of handles the local conditions well with ground clearance and overall simple mechanics if you're after a decent a-b ride then that will serve the purpose. The cons : 1. You are overpaying for an old car. 2. Due to mass popularity most units are hacked, tampered and sold off with fake mileages etc...basically tough to find a clean and honest premio or an allion for that matter. WXB is a bit more techie, newer and TBH a little more interesting (personal opinion) but of course it's a hybrid and as Irage mentioned the interior and ride might not be as refined as a Premio. Again Personal preference I have driven a few premios and they've always felt to me like big sofas on wheels.. I honestly would not buy either but if asked to chose between the two i'd pick the Axio.

Only the real 2000cc G Superior had cruise control from factory from 2007 or so.

Not even the 2019 F EX package got cruise control.

Actually Axio WXB has better techs over a 2013 Premio such as Toyota safety sense C ( LDW, Automatic High Beam, Auto emergency brake ) Also it has cruise control. Some Premios of that era has electric driver seat adjusters which is not included in Axio WXB.

If I were you, I'd go for an Axio WXB 50th anniversary edition due to the red interior. A premio has a slightly plushier ride quality. Axio is comfy too. One is a hybrid, one is not. Buy the car depending on which factor is most important to you (resale, design, interior quality, economy, etc..)

See..this is my point @gayanath....we have people shouting for permits and increased taxes. But where are the people demonstrating and shouting asking for safe school buses ? or making the private buses safe ? When the government enforced high penalties for buses they held the entire country hostage....how ? why ? we are the majority..we could have held them hostage and made them fall in line with the regulations. But we didn't..because for our population, it meant they themselves will have to sweat for it. When AIrbags were made mandatory....people went and yelled saying cars are getting expensive and that they are being discriminated because they do not have the ability to buy "expensive" vehicles with airbags...WTF ??? We really do not care that 3000+ people died on our roads. We only care when one of that 3000+ becomes one of our own family members or our selves. We rise up and shout against terrorists blowing up the country..but we do not care about people terrorizing the country every minute with lorries dressed up as buses. We yell about people making bombs and walking around with hidden weapons...but we stay shut about pancake like damaged cars being put back together and on to the street and sold off to people that are nothing but time bombs. We yell about the bakery guy whose pan raaththala is only 90% of the weight of a raaththala...but we stay shut about people selling crap for cars under false pretenses.

Also dude - you belong to the 1% of sri lankan motorists. Respect!!!

Misread the model year. Surprised that the 2013 premio doesn't have cruise control. I thought they did.