I was at Abaza auto at downtown mall yesterday & I found the SouEast booth offering the test drive for the car. The sales people were friendly, but I had to search on the internet for missing data they couldn't tell me about like the chassis of the car if its Japanese or not. Also I made sure from surfing the internet that the engine is the one installed in the mitsubishi shark
I started the test, the quality of the interior is very good when compared to other Chinese car. The chair was good for a tall person. The engine was very powerful. The acceleration was very good (acceleration with a 6 speed trasmission is better than on the mitsubishi shark with 4 speed transmission, so it might be that it has better acceleration than that of the mitsubishi shark). The transmission is a CVT with availability of manual shifting. The normal D mode with the CVT works fine for a smooth ride with smooth acceleration, as usual in the CVT transmissions the response woun't be good for a kick down unless you switch to the manual shifting mode. When I tried the manual shifting mode, it was very good. There was a lag about 1 second for shifting which is acceptable.
The suspension system is good & soft, which is the main reason for low stability, but its ok when we're talking about a car in the category of the hyndai verna, Chevrolet aveo & Renault Logan. From my own point of view, the car needs stiffer suspension for improving the stability to be able to compete with the stability of the sunny EX old shape (N16). I think This car can compete with Nissan sunny old shape as a good car with mitsubishi engine & transmission with ABS & EBD only if it had stiffer suspension system to enhance stability.

The summary:
Its a very good car when compared to category of logan, verna & aveo due to adjusting the car have a comfort ride. If they added a new sport category like the sandero stepway they'd compete with cars with higher categories & can compete with old sunny (N16).



I hope I was helpful.