I FELL IN LOVE...THEN FELL OUT OF LOVE
i was skeptical at first. but when i looked closely, i realized there's something more than meets the eye.
i almost fell in love with chery QQ.
i say ALMOST since my infatuation lasted only a few hours.
last saturday, Other Half and i accompanied my sister to toyota bel-air to check out vios. yup, she's buying herself a new car. so kami ni Other Half, nagfifeeling kami na kami bibili. hehehe. since i already had an experience buying a brand new car (i was the one who went with my mother when we bought the isuzu crosswind), i was the one who was "testing" the car and inquiring about this and that etc. seems like my sister's gonna buy a car after all. within 2 weeks i think.
feeling a little mayabang, we went to check out other car showrooms and the nearest one was chery. we wanted to check out the QQ, which sells at around P350,000 (for the manual transmission model with 1.1 engine). wala lang. but when i saw how cute it was but still it can carry 5 passengers, sold out na ako.
nag-drive test pa ako paikot ng jupiter-makati ave.-buendia-jupiter (i forgot kasi san na ako kumanan before reaching jupiter again). ang gaan ng manibela, maganda ang suspension and it was easy to maneuver because of its size. namamtayan lang ako kasi sanay ako magsimula sa segunda and i forgot i was driving a car, not a pick-up. and mejo malalim pa ang clutch, nahihirapan ako timplahin. aside from the ease of driving a llittle car, the reported mileage was good. when we did a rough computation, my sister and my husband said we can afford to pay in cash. that is, i would have to deplete my "scholarship fund" (for my MA) and our savings (for investment and ebay business). or borrow a little to pay for that car and still keep my scholarship fund.
on the way to Trinoma until we got home, i was kinda giddy at the thought of having my own economical car to drive around the metro and i dont have to rely on Other Half to pick me up after an event or going home to elbi without forking so much money for gas. on the way home, all i can talk about are the POSSIBILITIES with my little chery.
when we got home, i immediately checked out the online forums on cars/automobiles.
the reviews were not pretty. some are even horrible.
one buyer initially said that he was happy with the purchase and reviewed the car as if the few niggles were something that can be fixed EASILY. a few months or several hundred kilometers later, the buyer said chery QQ was crap and his wife's india-made suzuki alto was much better.
and reading other reviews made me fell out of love with the chinese-made car. oh well, what can you expect from a car made in a country with questionable quality control "standards". as one forum poster said, it's not worth it if you're gonna risk your life driving the haphazardly manufactured car.
there goes my little car. i maybe better off with suzuki alto after all. but it's out of my budget already. kia picanto is waaaay more expensive than when my highschool classmate bought it (it was just selling for P300,000+ then but now it has ballooned to P500,000!). hyundai getz is out of my reach na rin if i pay in cash. and i have to pay in cash since no bank is crazy enough to extend a loan to someone like me with a meager salary. so in-house and bank financing is out of the question.
eto na lang pakunswelo ko sa sarili ko when i was doused with cold water to cool down my ardour for the QQ: it's a luxury, not a necessity, ergo, i shouldn't buy it. i shouldn't buy anything, period.
i almost fell in love with chery QQ.
i say ALMOST since my infatuation lasted only a few hours.
last saturday, Other Half and i accompanied my sister to toyota bel-air to check out vios. yup, she's buying herself a new car. so kami ni Other Half, nagfifeeling kami na kami bibili. hehehe. since i already had an experience buying a brand new car (i was the one who went with my mother when we bought the isuzu crosswind), i was the one who was "testing" the car and inquiring about this and that etc. seems like my sister's gonna buy a car after all. within 2 weeks i think.
feeling a little mayabang, we went to check out other car showrooms and the nearest one was chery. we wanted to check out the QQ, which sells at around P350,000 (for the manual transmission model with 1.1 engine). wala lang. but when i saw how cute it was but still it can carry 5 passengers, sold out na ako.
nag-drive test pa ako paikot ng jupiter-makati ave.-buendia-jupiter (i forgot kasi san na ako kumanan before reaching jupiter again). ang gaan ng manibela, maganda ang suspension and it was easy to maneuver because of its size. namamtayan lang ako kasi sanay ako magsimula sa segunda and i forgot i was driving a car, not a pick-up. and mejo malalim pa ang clutch, nahihirapan ako timplahin. aside from the ease of driving a llittle car, the reported mileage was good. when we did a rough computation, my sister and my husband said we can afford to pay in cash. that is, i would have to deplete my "scholarship fund" (for my MA) and our savings (for investment and ebay business). or borrow a little to pay for that car and still keep my scholarship fund.
on the way to Trinoma until we got home, i was kinda giddy at the thought of having my own economical car to drive around the metro and i dont have to rely on Other Half to pick me up after an event or going home to elbi without forking so much money for gas. on the way home, all i can talk about are the POSSIBILITIES with my little chery.
when we got home, i immediately checked out the online forums on cars/automobiles.
the reviews were not pretty. some are even horrible.
one buyer initially said that he was happy with the purchase and reviewed the car as if the few niggles were something that can be fixed EASILY. a few months or several hundred kilometers later, the buyer said chery QQ was crap and his wife's india-made suzuki alto was much better.
and reading other reviews made me fell out of love with the chinese-made car. oh well, what can you expect from a car made in a country with questionable quality control "standards". as one forum poster said, it's not worth it if you're gonna risk your life driving the haphazardly manufactured car.
there goes my little car. i maybe better off with suzuki alto after all. but it's out of my budget already. kia picanto is waaaay more expensive than when my highschool classmate bought it (it was just selling for P300,000+ then but now it has ballooned to P500,000!). hyundai getz is out of my reach na rin if i pay in cash. and i have to pay in cash since no bank is crazy enough to extend a loan to someone like me with a meager salary. so in-house and bank financing is out of the question.
eto na lang pakunswelo ko sa sarili ko when i was doused with cold water to cool down my ardour for the QQ: it's a luxury, not a necessity, ergo, i shouldn't buy it. i shouldn't buy anything, period.
