Daihatsu Cuore Review

By nabeel on April 22, 2009

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The Daihatsu cuore is a car from the 90’s so it doesn’t feel like a modern car at all. It was built to be basic and cheap and it sure is basic, but cheap…I don’t think so.

Even the engineers at the daihatsu dealership admit that this car has some design faults which can’t be fixed especially some clutch related issues. Apart from that it is very reliable and easy to maintain and it’s always welcome in the second hand car market.

	Score	Remarks
Performance	7/10	Lack of weight covers up well for the lack of power
Grip & handling	4/10	Not great
Comfort	4/10	Poor
Reliability	8/10	Very good
Fuel economy	6/10	Let down by its prehistoric fuel injection system
Maintenance	8/10	Easy to maintain
Resale	9/10	Anytime
Price	4/10	Too expensive
Equipment	4/10	Bare minimum

MODEL	PRICE
CUORE CL	569,000
CUORE CL CNG	609,000
CUORE CX	619,000
CUORE CX MET	625,000
CUORE CX CNG	664,000
CUORE CX CNG MET	669,000
CUORE CX A/T	649,000
CUORE CX A/T MET	654,000
CUORE ECOMATIC	704,000
CUORE ECOMATIC MET	709,000

Source: Toyota-indus.com

Rivals:

Toyota Vitz/Platz

Suzuki Alto

Chevrolet Joy

Chery QQ

Suzuki Mehran

Verdict:

Cuore is not a bad car but you can get a much better car in the same budget.

Posted in Reviews | Tagged Cuore, Daihatsu, pakistan, price, Prices

nabeel

I'm a Lahoree petrol-head. Even though my car only has a tiny 0.8 liter engine running on CNG (so technically I'm a CNG-head!) and it sometimes has difficulty overtaking fast bicycles... Still sometimes i like to pretend it's a Lamborghini:D P.S. do visit my blog hpwr.wordpress.com

Faisal

I am using Coure since 2005. I love my car. Brilliant performance on CNG. I visited Islamabad / Murree number of time. I among my 3 friends used to go murree on CNG. Just want to say that pick up on CNG is awesome. And on petrol it is remarkable giving me average of 17 km. Netshell is I am very much satisfied with this Car.

momekh

A very well-composed post!
And a person I know is getting a new coure from the bank, he won't agree to anything you've said except perhaps the price :P

nabeel

@BTB
you are right, there weren't any good options other than cuore a few years back that's why i've got one ;)

but i'm trying to make a point here by placing vitz, joy and alto in the rivals because I want people to know that they can buy a much better car than cuore in the same budget range.

bigtugboat

I got this great little car for my father because I believed that due to its smaller size and automatic transmission, this car would be easier for him to drive than his Khyber, In 2004, it was priced at 465,000 but still seemed overpriced to me (current figure of 649,000 seems absolutely preposterous to me). But I chose this car because of its better than Mehran workmanship and the fact that none other car in this segment offered automatic transmission at that time.

To include Vitz/Platz among Cuore's rivals is not right. Vitz/Platz may be replaced with Santro in the list above.

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