My First Car, My First Love…Mitsubishi Cedia

It was around the time when I wanted to change my job into a new global company and I had returned from a good saving.

Never had in mind to buy a car, instead, was interested to own a used super bike…. This was in the early 2008.

I was looking for options to own a super bike from various sources to own one… unfortunately the super bike market in India was not all that boom as it is now. Later when all my try out with the super bike owning options had run out my cousin brother fed my mind with the thought of owing a car.

This was the first inclination for me, later as time passed by we used to compare cars from the 3 top automobile magazines in India, the Auto Car, Top Gear and Overdrive.

The research began initially with not a real focus on which car to buy, eventually and essentially it was the vitamin M(Money) that was the real grounds to kick off the serious search. Next comes what type of car, is it gonna be a 3 box sedan or a hatch back or an SUV or a cross breed between the two.

I had literally tried almost almost all the cars in the above segments. Now the decision was fixed on what BHP of a car I really want, it was a minimum of 100 bhp.

The intensive magazine searches and helpful rievews from  team-bhp.com and some auto enthusiast friends, I had 4 cars that were fitting into the above segments, the Honda CIVIC, Ford Fiesta Petrol, The Chevrolet optra Magnum diesel and the Mitsubishi Cedia.

Test drove all the 4 above cars along with the Honda City with paddle shift as well, somehow didn’t get the shape of the car to be cary appealing, it got dropped off. The CIVIC was running out of my budget, the Fiesta was cramped and sluggish, the Opta Magnum diesel had too less on package to offer, finally it was the test drive of the Mitsubishi Cedia which just stood out of all other cars in terms of style, performance and substance. Also the rally pedigree in its design was edging all other family sedans by far.

Mitsubishi Cedia turned out to be the car I loved and owned, had the first modification of a new custom end can for the exhaust on its first birthday.

Followed by BMC airfilter and complete exhaust manifold rplacemant at Red Rooster. Now my Mitsubishi Cedia is seen on the google search words of “torque king Cedia”