Feed back after owning it for 3 months and done 3000 KM of drive

 

Dear Car lovers,

I am Hariharan from Chennai, in the past i had owned Hyundai Santro for 6 years and self driven it for  140000Km still it is doing good and it is being used by my brother..!!

When I felt like to upgrade my car I had thought of doing an analysis asusual like all of us :-) I test drew  Honda CITY ( just to have a feel but i wanted diesal car) , Old & transformed Verna, All new VENTO which was just launched at that time, Skoda Octavia & Laura , GM chevy cruze.!!  very thing had pros and cons but i had finalised VENTO and booked it also. later few months Fluidic was launched and i had been called by the dealer for test drive. It was mind blowing to look at that curves and bends it had eve though the frount was not very app on a over all look it took my heart off. So i had to cancel the VENTO with the silly reason that I can not wait for 6 months :-)

Finaly i got my Fluidic  Verna delivered on 1st of May 2011. It has very diff & tuff to explaining to all the curious peoples even while waiting in traffic about the car and features etc etc.!!

Ok Now what I had expected and got from this vehicle.!! I drive my self so all 3000KM done by me only 😲.

Interiors & Exteriors The leather seats very good in Quality and the touch feel is very good. The interior colour gives me an up market car feel, may be I was driving santro 😊 . The woody finish all around with crome gives satisfaction to my mind when ever i look at them. I had put additional vynile flooring to protect carpet and to give good AC feel. it is really helping to cool fast in chennai afternoon temp. Totaly me and my family is happy with the interiors.

regarding Exterior I nothing to say cos every one know by now how sexy is the vehicle. I could feel that when peoples from BMW and Audi LOOK peeping out  😉 . I had just added schuff foldings to the doors. looks good.!!

Vehicle perfomance 😎 I had first felt that the gear ratio was stupid design. cos it is too tall for city driving. but now i used to it and feel comfertable. The head lightes where very very insufficiant for tipical indian high ways with out street lights. So i had to upgrade to Philips Xenon and now its excellent. problem solved for my high way cruze.

Engine & power train is excellent and the tubo charger kickes in at 1500RPM . The over taking is an cake walk with Fluidic verna. the engine is more linear and delivers power linearly so no rush in of power like old verna. this gives u more confidence to drive.

The steering lacks control at high speeds above 170km/h gives nervesness to the driver. but when i have done my first long distance of 400Km long drive i had this problem only till 200km distance. then i started enjoying my drive even after i touched 180km..!! this is too much for a new engine but i wanted it to get well tuned.

Groung clearnce where adequate but still hit few time in some tollgates where they had high speed brakers made for trucks. Breakes where doing excellent job and i felt the ABS too during few incidence on the high way. confident braking at high speeds. Noice and vibrations was very minimal at high speeds 180km/h and low speeds . 

Fuel economy was not as per Hyundai promise, I got 12 ~ 13Km/l in pure chennai city traffic driving and 17 ~ 18 Km/l on HIGH way with avarage speed of 80Km/h. All the values are with Air Cond on. But I dont bother on this cos I know hyundai vehicles are not for milage. 😉.

So my dear car lovers for Any specific questions, you can send me an reply, I will answer to my best knowledge.

Thnx

Hariharan.

Style , Engine and drive train, Interiours, passenger space, Pride of owning.Tall gear ratio , stearing response at high speed, painting quality, head lamp power, fuel economy.