Good. Review on Mitsubishi Cedia

With the car, taking it over all sorts of terrain and

most of the times it has been driven hard. The car has

so far never let me down on more than a few long

1000km+ highway drives ( Hyderabad, Gokarna/Karwar,

Kerala/Bandipur) and innumerable high speed runs to

Mysore.

Since I've already posted most of my driving

experience details in the earlier review, I'll limit myself

to anything significant since then.

First thing was to get rid of the horribly noisy

Bridgestone RE88 tyres that came OE. While they

offered a lot of grip, they were noisy and hard. The car

is shod with slightly wider than OE 205/60 Michelin

PP2 on stock 15 rims. The grip has improved even

more and the car feels absolutely planted and rock

steady even at 170-180 kph. The ride quality too has

improved over the Bridgestones. The road noise is

significantly lower, especially at high speeds which is

awesome considering the fact that these tyres are

sporty performance oriented tyres.

The few gripes I had earlier regarding the gear shift,

especially second gear seems to have disappeared.

The shifts are absolutely smooth and effortless. The

car also feels more rev happy as compared to before.

The car got rear ended by a reckless maruti zen driver

once on the broken sections NH4 which caused a

cracked bumper and damaged rear skirts. The zen's

front end was a complete mess with a leaking radiator

and a bent engine bay. This was when the prices of

bumpers was still high and I was hit with a 35k bill.

The surprising fact was that the bumper was only 13k

while the rear skirting was 15k. Insurance paid roughly

21k out of it and the rest was thru my pocket. I didnt

bother pursuing the zen driver as he looked like a

ruffian and seemed to be driving under influence as he

was smelling of alcohol.