Our Rio

Ta-da....! This is our looong-awaited new car! Yeah!

Our 1.4 sporty Rio. It's not an expensive car, in fact it's 1 of the lowest range but we're contented & very thankful. For the moment, we just need a vehicle to move around & this is already more than what we initially hoped for. Moreover it doesn't look cheap at all.

The color. Is it grey? Is it blue? Answer is - Olive Grey. Sounds interesting huh? It sure looks interesting too as it's supposed to be grey with a tint of golden shimmer, so (just like the sales staff, Mich, told us when we're choosing the colour) under the sun, we'll see our car in grey with a bit of gold especially the top, but other times it looks blue... & sometimes more grey. Almost every1 who'd seen our car was confused yet impressed by its chameleon-like look.

The story behind. Yes we've waited a good 3 months+. When we 1st placed order, we chose an auto, red 1. But we couldn't even smell that it's coming after cny...
Actually during the wait, we're harboring a lil doubts on whether we'd made a wrong decision in getting an auto car at this point of time. Sure it's more relaxed & convenient to drive an auto car but fuel consumption will be higher too. And around the same time, thank God we just happened to call 1 of the showrooms & got to know there's a shipment arriving in about 2 days' time but contained only manual cars. We quickly contacted Mich to see whether we could change to a manual 1 instead. Within the day, Mich came back saying they did have a few units on hand but no red car. As the remaining limited units were going very fast too, we quickly booked a white. Good thing the following day's a Sat, so we went down to settle all the documentation matters. But after looking at the white 1, I didn't like it & we wanted to take the black instead. However by then the black was taken too. Wow, going very fast indeed. So we're left with olive-grey & orange. Orange?? eh... NO for me & hubby. Problem was no viewing of olive-grey car in the showroom & only Rio has that color, no other models. After much hesitation & consideration, we finally made a daring move & chose our Olive-Grey without ever seeing 1 before.

So forget about RED, perhaps save it for our next car? Or till then depending on the evolution of our preference? For now, we've fallen in love with our O-G at 1st sight. Hmmm...