Dan with Sirion and Laurel

[goosegog]

Dan with the Daihatsu Sirion and Nissan Laurel, are you reading this or can you tell me his username? I need to chat cars. PM me or reply here please

Cheers

Ferg

[markbognor]

That's VIP you are after.

[Robinxr4i]

If you need your carpet drying, he's your man

Opps silly me have a pic.....

[jettadeluxe]

Bloody Sirion! It's a Cuore.

I've already replied in your Wagon-R thread, what more do you want?

[goosegog]

Oops! I could've sworn it was a Sirion!
Ah well, I want a quirky, fuel-efficient daily and wondered what you could tell me about your Sirion, but seeing as it's a Cuore, what can you tell me about that? Is it smaller than the Sirion? Which 1.3 engines are 100bhp? Any other tips? Any pics of your car?

Cheers!

[jettadeluxe]

Cuore is slightly smaller than the Sirion.

Has a 3 cylinder 989cc lump, with 5-speed box. Will do 80mph on the motorway quite happily and returns 60MPG regardless of how you drive it. A tankful is £30 and will take you an indicated 350 miles, so around 320 in reality.

As long as they are serviced they will run and run. Built between 1999 and 2003, then re-badged as the Perodua Kelisa and facelifted slightly.

Being 'kei-car' sized, they are narrow and tall. I'm almost 6' and still have a good 4" of headroom inside, and they can take 4 adults with decent legroom all round.

Here's my one.



There's not much in the way of stuff in the UK for them. My suspension came from Malaysia, and the wheels from Japan. Both were as much as the car cost itself, which was £900.

[goosegog]

Great, thanks for the reply. It's a great little car! It's had springs and dampers then? What size are those rims?

[jettadeluxe]

Rims are 5.5*16 ET48. A specific size for kei cars, due to the narrow body. Tyres are an odd size, skinny and low profile - 165/40/16, but easily available in this country and reasonably cheap at £45 a corner.