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There is a mall + condo ... Skywalk Condo... Somewhere near ekkamai or Sukhumvit 69. Skywing Bar and Restaurant. Nice view, with a live band and also the food are quite nice and not too pricey

I had an accident before and 4 out of 7 airbags in the car deployed. I did not had any injuries at all. I think I may suffer bad injuries without the airbag.

My experience in driving a 2.0 petrol version CX5 on 95 is about 400km for each full tank. Not sure about 91 and E85.

What kind of petrol is recommended? Because back in my home country, I only have 95 or 97 to choose from. Not so much choices as compared to Thailand.

I made some intensive comparisons with fuel in my Mazda 3. E85 is cheaper, but the fuel consumption is much higher than with Gasohol 95, especially in urban/sub-urban use. My Mazda dealer recommends E85 on for long trips on the motorway.

My figures:

Gasohol 95: 7.0 l/100 km - (24.2 Bath/l) - 1.7 Baht/km

E 85: 8.75 l/100 km - (18.8 Baht/l) - 1.65 Baht/km

So I returned to Gasohol 95.

Wow... Thank you so much for the figures. It seems like not much cost savings using E85.

I also noticed you are big fan to Mazda ... Haha

Like I said I was not aware they didnt have the manual here. They had it for my WRX so can't see why they don't for the other cars. Oh and at 3,2 million baht I think my WRX was a pretty great deal since any equivilant car here with 300hp is atleast 5-6 million.

Wrx its some special not for all.

i had 2004 wrx sti.

so its not be perfect car for evry day. my body evry time tired when drive on long distantion. at same time i buy 530 BMW. So it be more nice for evry day drive.. and for long distantion.

but i still love my STi.

Forester and legacy it litle be another thinks..

on manual turbo forester can be fun car, but still comfort drive ..

and one thinks

Japan Brand in spec show asseleration with best thinks..

2012 frorester forester turbo with auto trans can be on factory spec asseleration if only drivers inside and start with two pedal( it not good for trasmission, but some times can )

PS

now i remember all my subaru.. i love it..

need think about turbo forester.. if new car buy it good choice i guess.

Yeah its just my toy. My wife doesn't even allow me to drive the kids in it. Says its too fast and uncomfortable. When the family comes along we take the Everest which has "ok" handling for what is basically a pick up.

I guess your wife is complaining that you tend to drive fast with the WRX...haha..

WRX is really a fun car to drive..

Apologise to the girl sincerely and ask for her forgiveness and hope she will drop the charges.

What charges????

Ops.. My bad.. Should say 'if there is any charges'

Every other car was a Proton every time I went there. Doesn't mean they're any good though.

Sent from my R2D2 using my C3P0 manservant

The reason you are seeing so many Proton on the road in Malaysia is because one particular model is selling very cheap. But Proton are losing substantial market share to Perodua and also entry level Japanese and Chinese MV. The company had been making losses and now they are asking the government for RM1.4billion financial assistance..

Proton is also known to have very bad service centre in Malaysia and the parts and labour are expensive for national car

Apologise to the girl sincerely and ask for her forgiveness and hope she will drop the charges.

If he is "asleep" after the accident, I am 100% sure he was drunk....

Even ckd in Malaysia i guess it better QC than in Thailand plant.

Don't bank on that

Malaysia is the home of Proton

Haha... Proton is really a rubbish company.. They are not serious in the business and most Malaysian doesn't support buying their cars nowadays, instead they are buying Perodua.

Subaru plant in Malaysia is manage by Tan Chong which is also the main distributor of Nissan.. I would say they are much better than Proton. At least there are no government cronies involve in the management unlike Proton.

Diesel fuel contains more energy per liter than gasoline and diesel engines themselves are more efficient. Diesel engines have a lot more torque and gasoline engines have more horsepower. When driving, more torque is favorable to more horsepower. You will rarely run a gasoline engine at full RPM to take advantage of the horsepower.

Is it true that diesel vehicles are more expensive to maintain?

What you might be looking for is the Innova (Toyota) - Baht 859,000 - used a lot now by Thai Taxi (Meter) drivers.

A friend of mine drive Innova and he said the fuel consumption is worse ever ... Not sure whether it is the same in Thailand.

The guy from Mazda recommend the petrol version for Thailand, in another country it could be different !

because it's like 300.000 thb difference, even more.. so base upon this : 6.7 l/100 km (14.9 km/l) for Diesel (Mazda says 17.5km/l)

- For somebody driving 5000km each month it will cost him around 345 litres of Diesel at 22.3 THB today per litre, so it give us : 7693 THB per month.

for the petrol version mazada give us this : 14.5 km/l with E85 petrol... so let's says 12.34km/l in regard to previous ratio from official / user datas.

- For somebody driving 5000km each month it will cost him around 405 litres of E85 Petrol at 18 THB today per litre, so it give us : 7290 THB per month.

- with E91 at 23.43/l it will cost : 9489 thb

- with E95 at 23.85/l it will cost : 9659 thb

well.. should we go further ?... E85 is cheaper than Diesel here ^^ so.. you'll pay less for buying the car and for using it everyday.. but you'll get less torque ^^

with the E91 the difference is 2200 thb each month for 5000km .. so you need 136 month to get the diesel engine to be cheaper, in minimum 11 years... well well well..

the car will have 660.000km ^^^

My experience in driving a 2.0 petrol version CX5 on 95 is about 400km for each full tank. Not sure about 91 and E85.

What kind of petrol is recommended? Because back in my home country, I only have 95 or 97 to choose from. Not so much choices as compared to Thailand.

Hi... Can i ask how's the fuel consumption for your CX-5 ? Roughly how many KM per full tank ?

The average diesel consumption after 50,000 kilometres is 6.7 l/100 km (14.9 km/l). The tank volume is 58 l, so about 850 kilometres. We newer drive at the end, normally fill-up after about 650 kilometres. The longest trip was 740 kilometres and we had still enough fuel. The fuel gage and the trip computer are quite accurate and you can trust the range values.

The fuel consumption depends on traffic situations and your driving style. We drive the CX-5 around Hua Hin, about 50-100 kilometres a day. About every month there is a trip to Bangkok and 4 times per year a trip to Roi-Et province.

We try to drive «moderate» and «smooth» (fuel economical) and seldom with speeds of more than 120 km/h on the highway. Every SUV or pick-up tends to be a fuel guzzler above 110/120 km/h. The CX-5's engine is very powerful and «seduces» to use its capabilities.

We just got the new CX-5 where you have more detailed information on fuel consumption. I could reach values just above 5 l/100 lm on smooth rides on the main road at a speed of around 85 km/h.

Thanks for the info. Given the size of CX-5, I think the fuel consumption is quite good... The newly facelifted CX-5 offers quite some interior upgrades and making it even nicer.

Note that that is diesel consumption. It won't be as good for the 2.0 petrol. The diesel costs 1.53-1.69M and petrol is 1.22 -1.33M. How much would one need to drive to make up the difference in price between the diesel and petrol?

That's a valid comparison. I always wanted to get a diesel car as the diesel is cheaper than 95 in Malaysia. Especially when I found out that BMW 320d can easily clock 900km for each full tank (55 litter capacity). But BMW here is much more expensive and that's why I started comparing other diesel car in Thailand.

Hi... Can i ask how's the fuel consumption for your CX-5 ? Roughly how many KM per full tank ?

The average diesel consumption after 50,000 kilometres is 6.7 l/100 km (14.9 km/l). The tank volume is 58 l, so about 850 kilometres. We newer drive at the end, normally fill-up after about 650 kilometres. The longest trip was 740 kilometres and we had still enough fuel. The fuel gage and the trip computer are quite accurate and you can trust the range values.

The fuel consumption depends on traffic situations and your driving style. We drive the CX-5 around Hua Hin, about 50-100 kilometres a day. About every month there is a trip to Bangkok and 4 times per year a trip to Roi-Et province.

We try to drive «moderate» and «smooth» (fuel economical) and seldom with speeds of more than 120 km/h on the highway. Every SUV or pick-up tends to be a fuel guzzler above 110/120 km/h. The CX-5's engine is very powerful and «seduces» to use its capabilities.

We just got the new CX-5 where you have more detailed information on fuel consumption. I could reach values just above 5 l/100 lm on smooth rides on the main road at a speed of around 85 km/h.

Thanks for the info. Given the size of CX-5, I think the fuel consumption is quite good... The newly facelifted CX-5 offers quite some interior upgrades and making it even nicer.

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tourists and moaning farangs. visa dodgers, breaking the law then complaining when one gets fined by the police, its a set up hahahahaha

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everything thai hahahahahahahahah

I was driving along sukhumvit road yesterday and saw many farang crossing the busy road without using the overhead pedestrian bridge which is steps away from them... I started to think whether they would do the same in their home country...haha

You looked at smaller SUV's like the Mazda CX-5, Nissan X-Trail and Honda CR-V?

Honda has also the Modulo, the new B-RV and the Freed, all 7-seaters. Some of my foreign friends drive the Freed and they are quite happy with its space on that small footprint.

I also looked at the Freed, but it is underpowered for my and I don't like the CVT transmission. So we chose the Mazda CX-5 (2.2 l Diesel with AWD).

The new Nissan X-Trail with 7 seats seems to be popular. It's CVT seems to be better (less boring) than the of its competitors.

Hi... Can i ask how's the fuel consumption for your CX-5 ? Roughly how many KM per full tank ?

i dislike the idea of foreigner can only allowed to purchase condo and not landed properties.. not even one for their own residential stay purpose.... this is not fair... I also dislike the price of cars and gasoline are expensive. I also dislike it for not able to differentiate a real girl and a ladyboy from the way they look...

I love the food, the people, less racism as compared to my home country, cheap cost of living, happening city, and etc....

Not sure about latte, but I found Cao Doi and Doi Chang coffee is very nice. Doi Chang offers much better Cappuccino than Starbucks. I always hate Starbucks Cappuccino.

Starbucks is a big rip off !

Totally agreed.... and I just bought myself an Ice Americano from Starbucks...

Not sure about latte, but I found Cao Doi and Doi Chang coffee is very nice. Doi Chang offers much better Cappuccino than Starbucks. I always hate Starbucks Cappuccino.

I bought my first Chinese mobile phone Oppo R7S two months ago. The phone has 3gb ram with dual sim and micro SD support. It is almost 10k baht cheaper than galaxy s6. So far the phone is doing great for me for normal use, the camera is very good.. Although you will notice some lagging when you switch to any app.. But minimal about 1-2 seconds lag. .

I wouldn't mind to buy another Oppo again in the future.

Huawei is very attractive too..but the price is almost the same as Samsung .. I probably would buy Huawei than Samsung due to more interesting design and spec

Scam, no reputable agency or recruiter will look for money up front for admin fees or visa fees

If you are in one country and they are in another, they may however ask you to front your visa fee and claimed back, but this money is paid to the consulate or embassy concerned not to the agent

Seriously these people really piece of junk to con and cheat people...

Having been in that industry at one time there are basically two types......the head hunters for corporations- executives.....and the employment agencies..........neither would require you to pay a fee in advance....most fees are the obligation of the employer for their service........even temp agencies do not charge you a fee....I would NOT use their service as you have no idea if they are even meeting the requirements of the employer by sending you to an interview. If they are doing their job they would interview you first for your qualifications,check references,then submit your information to the prospective employer. If the employer wants to see you then they would inform you and set up the interview. Additionally , a professional service will always prep you with information about the employer and even who the person interviewing you will be........but this is Thailand so who knows.

Hi ... You are right. I had never seen a head hunter for executive position asking the candidate to pay a fee ..

I will ignore them .. Thank you very much guys...

About as straight as a waiters s corkscrew. Ignore them or even better lead them on in a useless correspondence campaign.

Viewing their web page the syntax would seem to indicate a lack of professionalism along with a wonderful dream weaving technique worthy of a Nigerian letter writer.

Thank you very much. It does looks lack of professionalism and fishy ... Better stay away from this company.

A quote from there web site (using copy/paste so not my error):

Not only to we place expatriates into their ideal positions but we also assist them their visa and housing needs

Sounds fishy don't you think?

Hi guys.. I wonder anyone here heard about this Head Hunter before or have any dealing with them before?

This Head Hunter requires the candidate to pay some sort of non refundable fee before putting the candidate into any interview ..

I am not sure whether this is a genuine head hunter as my experience in dealing with head hunter never requires me to pay any fee.

Thanks guys..