my view
it depends on what are you lookin from the car.
good AE110 usually goes beyond 1.6 million and soluna will be little less.for 1.4 million you would be able to buy a junk E110.
FB 14 also match with soluna price.
Soluna and AE110 share most of the common parts.
as far as i concern,
manufacture standards are same for both.
only soluna is little rare here.
fuel consumption may not show much difference in both models.
usually the marked fir the Toyota cars are artificial.
here's the reason...
in sri lanka most of the cars are used by businessmens .
most of them are non educated idiots except few executive level vise men. ,and they consider that buying a car is also an investment so they can save some bcks after 10 -15 years by selling it back.
so they don't care about safety, made year or anything.
just the Toyota name.you might know that registration year is more important than the make year for them.
so ignore the comments from that idiots.
consider your average running cost.
for any Japanese vehicles there are some regulations to follow, so all the cars are on same stranded.
Mazda, Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Mitsubishi too.
so basically all the car standards are same.
buy one according to your expectations and do calculation before.
i'll give you an example hoe i decided my first car.
i wanted to by a car made after 2000-2001
so at that time these were the options i considered.
Toyota 121- 3.0million
Mazda familia -2.2 million
Peugeot 406 - 1.5 million
Mitsubishi galant - 1.6million
all were petrol cars and i did calculate my average
my maximum monthly average was 1000kms,
FUEL CONSUMPTION AVERAGE VALUES WERE
121- 14kmpl
406 - 10kmpl
galant - 10kmpl
familia -12 kmpl
so if we calculate the petrol cost
toyota = 138/14= 9.8
galant = 138/10 = 13.8
So i had to pay 4 rupee excess for each KM in Galant.
that means excess 4000 rupees per month.and maintenance cost is almost same for both, service, oil, tyres,
but i,m paying additional 1.5million rupees for Toyota.
i had plan to use the car for five years.
so my excess fuel cost was 4000*12*5 years= 240000 =2.40laks
so i bought the Galant.
with added features over Toyota (ABS,unique nice look, uncommon model than Toyota,and 1.5 million rupee saved)
i banked that 2.5laks for excess fuel and invested that remaining 12.5 laks in share market
bought LHCL-lanka hospitals @32 rupee and after a few months there was a huge rally and share went to 112Rs. but i sold it around 70Rs and simply i doubled the value of that money.
anyway i invested that money again in a trusted company which probably double the value at some point in this five years.
so i'll have 50 lax.
plus if i sell the galant for 10 lax after 5 years
i have 6 million in cash.
i'm pretty sure that toyota won't go beyond 3 million ofter 5 years as new cars are coming into market,and people are moving towards a brand new car.imagine the price will not fall and hold @3million.
just wanted to share my experience with you.
so my simple advice is,
don't ask about cars from garage people as they are uneducated idiots.
those who promote Toyota just do it beacuse others do.
so you research,and you decide.
its finally your car.
think i helped you.
think differently brother..................