Dear Friends & Families,
This year everyone is disappointed with the petrol price hike. Everyone is switching their view on small or compact cars for daily usage. Everyone try to save every bit of cents or ringgits on petrol to meet end needs. There are few small cars currently are selling like hot cakes. Just to name a few. Perodua’s Viva, Proton’s Savvy, Naza’s Suria and Inokom Atoz.
All mentioned above just a few that I knew. This time Hyundai introduced to the small car market a brand new car or breed from the company. Hyundai’s new car that just launch here in Malaysia is Hyundai i10. It is a small car that cater for normal daily usage. Example: city driving. I wanted to get a small car for myself because the the petrol price hike. I might think about this car. Okay, lets come back to the car. Hyundai’s i10 comes in 1.1cc 4 cyclinder, but I’m not sure whether it is a DOHC. It has 66.8bhp/49.1kW @ 5500rpm and 99.1Nm of torque @ 2800rpm. Compression ratio is 10:1 it is tuned to run on low octane because it should be fuel economical. It has 2 variant, there is a 4-speed Auto and a 5-speed Manual version for Hyundai i10. The rack and pinion steering system has electric motor asist and the kerb weight 
around 925kgs.
It has MacPherson struts in front and a torsion beam axle behind. 14-inch alloy wheels are standard and with 165/60 tyres. The spare tyre is a full-sized, not a skinny space-saver, but it comes on a steel wheel. The cabin is spacious with the high ceiling although the window sills seem a bit high. The dashboard is usual look in a Korean cars’ interior. The gear is more conventional and functional. The instrumental panel has a large speedometer (optimistically calibrated to 200 km/h) in the centre but absent of a tachometer. For those who are not comfortable without a coolant temperature gauge, you’ll be happy to know that the i10 has one rather than just a warning light. A bad design in my opinion. The centre dashboard is nicely laid with large rotating knobs for the climate control system and the shifter. The audio system is a double-DIN type with MP3 compatibility and also a input point for portable music devices.
The back can accommodation three persons may be a squeeze. We can pull down the 1-piece backrest down for extra storage at the trunk. A nice provision is the parcel shelf which doubles as a cover to prevent people from peeking into the cargo area. It share many engineering elements with the Kia Picanto, the i10 not really a clone of the Kia model. 3565 mm long and 1595 mm wide, as long as a Perodua Viva but wider. Small it may be, the Hyundai engineers have been able to give it a structure score 4/5 stars in the independent EuroNCAP crash test, said to be the best for a car of this segment. The secret is having a lot of reinforcement in critical areas with rigid subframes as well as a ‘hoop’ concept for the pillars.
HSD has ensured that the safety package it provides is comparable to the one in Europe so in spite of the low price of RM48,888, it comes with two airbags as standard plus ABS. In other words, that 4-star rating is also applicable to the model sold to Malaysians. This is not always the case with some other models where the one sold to Malaysians lacks certain safety items which had made it possible to achieve the many stars in the crash test.
Commenting about the price of the car, Dennis Ho, COO of HSD, explained that there are some advantages when it is badged as an Inokom rather than a Hyundai due to provisions of the National Automotive Policy. HSD is giving 5 years or 300,000 km warrant which ever comes first for the i10. For an Auto of Hyundai i10 will cost RM48,888
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. In my I was thinking is this just gimmick or just plain politics. I not really into politics. Just like to read what is going on around us. Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said that he’ll reduce the petrol price if he is in power. Did I read something wrong? I even saw he said if he is the PM. How much will he reduce? 
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