Plan to buy 2004 Toyota altis 1.8L A/T or Chevy optra 1.8L A/T?

**christianabuton** · October 22nd, 2011 10:51 PM

Which is more economical and efficient in terms of the following?
1. Engine Performance
2. Fuel Consumption
3 OEM part costs and availabitlity?
4. Suspensions
5. Aerodynamic design

Help me to make right decisions. Thanks

**guigui** · October 22nd, 2011 11:32 PM

suspension is the only point where these two had a tie. Aerodynamics, that i don't know.

i'd pick the altis over the optra even when i'm deep-asleep. but since you're looking at second-hand vehicles, the optra might have some edge depending on the manner their previous owner used (and possibly abused them.)

no offense meant to optra owners.

**GTi** · October 24th, 2011 02:36 AM

Originally Posted by christianabuton

Which is more economical and efficient in terms of the following?
1. Engine Performance
2. Fuel Consumption
3 OEM part costs and availabitlity?
4. Suspensions
5. Aerodynamic desi
Help me to make right decisions. Thanks

I'd say:
1. Altis (on paper, at least)
2. Altis(eto sure na sure, even the 1.6L Optra is a guzzler

)
3. definitely Altis
4. Optra (its actually known for its excellent handling and participation in touring car championships)
5. Altis siguro? At least that's what I can decipher by looking at the shape

Pero seriously. The Optra ain't a good 2nd hand buy. Your wallet will suffer much from the fuel bills and maintenance cost. Being a Toyota,the Altis should serve you very well. Rather uneventfully, but well. If you want to know more about them, you can check out motioncars.com's reviews about the two.

**vinj** · October 24th, 2011 09:13 AM

Get the Altis. Lamang siya in all except handling (which is negated by comfort and handling can be improved by some simple suspension mods).

We had a Optra 1.8L as service in the office and it was bad in terms of performance and had a very poor FC. I always thought it was a 1.6L until i took a closer look.