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from the “teh o ais hooks” behind both front seats, there’s a heavy-duty anti-snatch hook on the right side of the front passenger seat. On the left side of the driver’s seat is a USB port for rear passengers, although its central-ish position means even the front occupants can use it too. Also, both inner sides of the front seats have pockets.

Strangely, there is no more space saver spare wheel like in the two previous Myvis. There is a full-sized spare wheel, with matching rim too. Perodua’s market research indicated that people want a full-sized spare, most likely because they don’t want to be constrained by the speed limit the skinny spare wheel has. After all, one has to make up for the time lost by the flat tyre and wheel change. Need to speed up! collisions. The suspension is enhanced too, where there are front and rear stabiliser bars with increased diameters, new lightweight front lower arms, stiffer rear beam structure with new curved design and redesigned rear cross member for better rigidity.

With the new dimensions and profile, this Myvi naturally has better aerodynamics, which helps with the fuel economy – it has air spats, semi-flush rear spoiler and aeroslim wipers that contribute towards a drag coefficient of 0.296, an improvement over the outgoing Myvi’s 0.306. I did not do a fuel economy check, but Perodua claims that this variant does 20.1 kilometres per litre, making it on average 32% more efficient than the previous model.

Despite the acoustic windshield Perodua said would reduce the noise, vibration and harshness levels, my passengers and I noticed that the sounds from the road is louder in this Myvi – sand or pebble