Vios 1.5G A/T or New City 1.3S A/T

[mackvil]

After discounts, Vios 1.5G is cheaper to the price of the new City 1.3S A/T by 1,000 pesos...

Which is better?

Vios 1.5G A/T
Pros:
- Bigger displacement (1.5L)
- Rear Disk Brakes
- Optitron Guages
- Power folding mirrors
- Front Foglamps

Cons:
- Higher fuel consumption?
- 4 speed A/T only
- older model (Toyota launched the Vios 2007)
- no iPod connection but has 6 speakers

City 1.3S A/T
Pros:
- Newer model / design
- 5 speed A/T
- Flex Audio System
- Bigger trunk space
- more fuel efficient?
- Telescopic steering wheel adjustment

Cons:
- Smaller displacement
- No foglamps
- rear drum brakes

[number001]

Read Motioncar's review on both units:

Honda City 1.5E A/T (2009)

Toyota Vios 1.5G M/T (2008)


City's audio is more inconvenient to use:

The copious amounts of silver plastic is enough to give it the flavor of a cheap stereo, but add flimsy buttons and controls, and you’ll start to think you’re in a Hyundai instead of a Honda. Notice too how there is far less controls on the stereo’s face than most other cars. Apparently Honda has aped the Germans making buttons share different functions. Want to eject a CD? You’ll have to press ‘Menu’ then ‘Select’ then look for the ‘Eject’ function. FM station presets? Press the ‘Up’ or ‘Down’ arrow then push ‘Select’. What used to take a single step process now takes two or three. After this, you really wish you had those suction cup controls.

[s_quilicot]

looks city na.

mas elegante and mas bago.

[mackvil]

Read Motioncar's review on both units:

Honda City 1.5E A/T (2009)

Toyota Vios 1.5G M/T (2008)


City's audio is more inconvenient to use:

Yeah and I think for Vios, you just add the accessory for iPod connection....

[oj88]

Honda City... 1000%

Sorry, but I think the City is 1 or 2 generations ahead of the current Vios.

I wouldn't care about the audio. I'll change out the factory HU anyway.

[OldSchoolHack]

If you are an audiophile then you will be changing the audio system anyway.

Go for the Honda City 2009.

IMO I find the centered meters (odo, speedo, etc) in the Vios ugly and bothersome. Such designs I guess would make it easy and cheaper to adapt the car to RHD from LHD and vice versa. But then why would you want it? This caters to Toyota's need, not yours.

And lastly .... look at these good cars but share a stigma; KIA Rio, the Hyundai Accent, the Nissan Sentra, Toyota Avanza and Vios, etc .... taxi....taxi po......

[mackvil]

Actually, I am also considering Altis 1.6G A/T which is around 60k more expensive after the discounts..... but I am thinking that City or Vios is good enough.....

[enthusiast]

If you are an audiophile then you will be changing the audio system anyway.

Go for the Honda City 2009.

IMO I find the centered meters (odo, speedo, etc) in the Vios ugly and bothersome. Such designs I guess would make it easy and cheaper to adapt the car to RHD from LHD and vice versa. But then why would you want it? This caters to Toyota's need, not yours.

And lastly .... look at these good cars but share a stigma; KIA Rio, the Hyundai Accent, the Nissan Sentra, Toyota Avanza and Vios, etc .... taxi....taxi po......

If your are an audiophile do not choose Vios. Medyo mahirap humanap ng HU na sakto or even close sa measurements ng default HU nila.

We have the 2nd gen vios and I do share the same feeling of getting bothered by the centered meters. However, SANAYAN lang pala... It has an advantage of course that's why nilagay yan ng Toyota diyan. They won't put it there for no reason (since they spend much on their r&d). Let's put it this way... If all cars used to have centered meters and one car manufacturer decided to be different by placing theirs on either the left (for lhd) or right (rhd), this would be the same reaction (of the majority?)towards the new design. Am I right?

That stigma that you mentioned is VERY true among us Filipinos. Pag nakita mong ipinanTAXI ung model ng isang auto, tingin ng karamihan, cheap na! I find it very immature to think that way. Try to go to other countries like Singapore and Germany, makikita mo ung ibang taxi nila Mercedes Benz (mahal nga lang ung flag down compared to other taxi models - I spent 40SGD parang glorietta to trinoma lang ung binyahe ko).

IMHO, mas makikita ang performance and reliability ng isang sasakyan kapag merong model na pwedeng ipangTAXI. Since most of the taxis in the metro are not undergoing periodic maintenance pero tumatagal pa rin (di ba amazing! hehehe!). Another advantage of which is the availability of spare parts. Branding/strategy lang ng Honda ung "the Prestigious" kaya hindi nila ipantataxi ung mga sasakyan nila. But mas prestigious ba ang Honda na BAWAL ipantaxi compared to BMW or MB? I have no intention to offend anyone. Just my two cents! Peace!