well, to the people at Columbia:

You just lost 2 sure sales for the carens with your price increase. (I am guessing there are quite a big number of people who changed their mind about purchasing the carens because of the HUGE price increase but what I am saying here are people I know, who for a fact, will likely buy the car). I did convinced a relative and a friend to choose the carens over the innova but with the current price increase, they said that 110K is just too much and I couldn't easily say to them now that the carens is the better buy without thinking twice... oh well. No doubt in my mind, the carens is the better car but hey... 110K is not a small amount of money.

I do hope something could be done about these price increase, the timing is not so good. Sana nag antay pa sila ng a year or 2 for the carens to gain more ground, convince people that its not only good but also reliable; then saka sila nag taas. I'd love to see more carens on the road sana... oh well.