HiHi, Let's see the new car from Honda Japan Website:

www.honda.co.jp to look for a new car called Freed.

It is a new car developed from Jazz chassis but can carry 8 passages. It looks like a mini version of stepwagon. Alnd most important is that it use the same engine with Fit (1.5 litre SOHC). It implies that it has high chance can have a tax reduction if introduced to HK. If it is really introduced to HK, it has enough power to KO corolla !

等明天, 去車行行下先.

你無野呀, 最多咪比Mazda5.
車種都唔同,邊有得比

1.5L 8 people, engine bad enough to KO itself

[ 本帖最後由 asahi 於 2008-6-3 18:32 編輯 ]

Will u so naive to think that u will use such a car to carry 8 passanger everyday?? Everyone knows the rear row of seat is a apare seat only for u to carry passenger in some special occasion eg. after party or drive for lunch with colleagues etc.
Why compare to Corolla because (1) use same 1.5L engine and same annual license fee (2) The car is shorter than Corolla means that it is easier to turn with a smaller radius; (3) The car is equiped with sliding door means that it will be more easy to get on/off the car in narrow spaces car park (4) The height of the car is taller than Corolla means a little bit more headroom to the middle row passenger (5) The flxible pattern of seat arrangment means that it can becomes a minivan if u need more spaces for load which Corolla could not.

If u want to buy a 1.5L car for family use, Will u still think Corolla is the only first choice if Freed carries the above advantages and set the price similar to Corolla?

Freed can KO Corolla means that Freed challanges Corolla  the leading place of Best selling 1.5L family car, WHO SAID THAT 1.5L FAMILY CAR MUST BE A SEDAN?? WHICH DICTIONARY STATED THE DEFINITION LIKE THIS??

Your very first statement reveal that u have no idea about power/weight ratio. If the seat werent there to hold a person, why the hell would that be there in the first place. 1.5L would never be able to pull 8 people on hong kong road. Guess you had never seen a car break down and burn up due to overloading. Don't shout when you dont know, kid.

If 1.5L natural aspired engine can be able to pull 8 people, it should have been on the road long long time ago prior to your naive observation. No vehicles are allowed to be on the road if the gross weight it carries is way beyond its max capacity. Even with F-1 technology (which i doubt one could ever get from Honda 1.5L), 1.5L is shy to give 150hp (in Freed case, 118hp on flywheel) on wheel which is still not sufficient to pull 8 people, not unless they are dwarfs and run on flat land.

Take a look at the early model of Mazda Premacy 1.8L 133hp and Honda Stream 1.7L, 135hp , they were 7 seater with better performance than Freed and engine displacement already exceed 1.5L (the so called occasional MPV breed) yet they barely moves when fully occupied. Both of their specs exceeded and contradicted the Japan spec Freed in practicality on HK roads, nor they ever did challenge the winning steak of corolla's popularity. Either of these facts proved your statement invalid.

1.5L in a minivan sounds too good to be true, and the fans are naive to believe in.

[ 本帖最後由 asahi 於 2008-6-7 01:15 編輯 ]

係幾好播, 但係貴唔貴呀?

no need for any competition , corolla is OUT long time.
bread & butter of toyota dealer HK are alphard, previa, rav 4 & yaris ...

上面英文好個兩位不用咁激, 萬一free坐8個人時冇力上坡, 可以叫後面幾位落車推, 100匹馬力再加三匹夫力, 一定上到山頂.

free 可以<<學聰明笨白>>咁改設計 地台下一個洞就不用下車.

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原帖由 polonixm 於 2008-6-8 09:24 發表
no need for any competition , corolla is OUT long time.
bread & butter of toyota dealer HK are alphard, previa, rav 4 & yaris ...

Toyota comfort and hiace are more popular.

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原帖由 asahi 於 2008-6-9 02:21 AM 發表

Toyota comfort and hiace are more popular.

呢期我見好多新 Prius.
貴買平用咁話.