Wednesday, January 16, 2008

in memoriam.. MX7242

well.. MX7242 .. the silver ferrari ( i and my friends call any saga car a ferrari.. mind you)
this would be the first car that i drove after getting my driving licence..
my family got the car for my sister when she went to university.. and that was around 1991..
then when my brother went to uni, he inherited the car and finally it came full circle and i was entrusted with it hmm around the end of 2003 when i started semester 1 in IMU

a lot of memories..
happy ones...
driving up genting sempah towards janda baik.. that was my farthest trip using the Saga..
pegi Carrefour dgn K.dijadellpahmiha..

weird ones.. water always getting into the boot space.. the only accident i had was with the silver ferrari la.. and it was very early on after i got my licence.. and to think of all places to get an accident.. inside my own house.. i minimally banged into one of the walls in my house when i was bringing the car out.. at the time.. my depth perception sucked to the max...
menumpangkan Dr. Thani..
the door handles snapping off, mengikut giliran masing2.. there was one time where the driver side door handle snapped off.. so basically had to open the back door first to open the front door..
central locking was a problem..
windows.. hmm this has been a perennial problem with any proton car.. there was once i had to travel in the rain with the car window open..
also i made a record of managing to fit in 8 passengers into the car once..
all the small sized people from K.dejamehadellpah punya rumah..

bad ones..

especially driving around shah alam with PARASITES in the car.. DIDiLydiAnIna
and towards the end the car was quite fond in developing a few problems of its own..
i still remember the car breaking down in Sunway LDP toll.. and also another time when i came back from street soccer MAPCU in UM.. broke down due to the fact that the water pump was leaky and due to overheating. i think something melted.. the gasket maybe..
also at one point the front axle kept having problems..
the passenger side window smashed during Friday prayers in Seri Petaling as the mangkuks who did it saw a laptop bag on the passenger seat.. for sure they were disappointed when they found rahman punya sweaty clothes that he kept in the laptop beg.. with the laptop safely at home..

as the car kept on developing problems in the end.. and the fact that i needed to travel to and fro seremban when i entered seremban.. basically the car was given away to a family friend and i inherited the Satria WEW 5641 from my brother

regardless of all the problems..
i feel the handling of this car is better than any car that i've driven up to now..
the way it takes corners.. muahahah and also that it had a 1.5l auto engine.. sakit sikit la when refuelling..
it was the first car that i had.. and it is greatly missed ( corny gile) hahaha

the silver ferrari is well and safe in Perak now..
and also is having a mid-life crisis and an identity crisis..
haha



anyway proton has come up with the replacement model for the old proton saga...
wanna see a peek? click this then..
it's gonna be released on the 18th of January

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