Baleno-Alpha (Petrol)

I have booked Alpha Ray blue petrol on 10-Dec-2015 and took the delivery on 8-Feb-2016. Of course, keep on calling the RM and asking about the status got the car every day.

This car is stylish, spacious, better mileage and somewhat luxurious to me!

Every small features of this car is found very useful which are not available in even highly priced big cars. Sometime, I’m confused, whether the engine is switched on or not? It is so silent and I will cross check every time on the RPM needle.

On city driving, I'm getting 16.5 to 17 Kmpl and on Highway long drive it is around 19.5 Kmpl.

Night driving is amazing with the projector head lamp on and flooding the road with white (day) light.  With Projector head lamp, I found the Fog lamp is useless or not so powerful.

The car is very stable on 120 kmph and suddenly you love to drive faster and faster when you reach 80kmph.

Initially, I got frightened with some reviews about interior plastic quality and dimples when you press the body sheet metal. I found these are baseless or it may be rectified from the cars produced since Jan-16. Also, clutch was bit hard initially and it is improving day by day usage.

Rear seat comfort dependent on tire pressure. If it is set to 29 PSI then it is Ok. The problem is, whenever, it goes to service center the pressure increases. The service center staff are not properly educated on this, it seems.

One day morning, a guy was standing with his kids in front of my house and he told me that he was following me for last three days to find my house. He started loving this car whenever he see my car on the roads and he wants to see the car and understand all about the car. Later he booked the Baleno diesel alpha. Another incident, a guy with scooter was chasing me and asked to stop the vehicle and I got frightened thinking that whether I touched his vehicle unknowingly? When I stopped, surprisingly he want to see my vehicle boot space and to know the model of my car, where I got serviced, what are the accessories I added and delivery experience, etc.

A different hood design/front styling would have removed the “sibling of the Swift tag” and more stylish. In bumper to bumper city traffic, I feel clutch usage could have been better. I hope it will solved in next service or by usage.

Nexa experience needs to be improved. I was unattended for an hour when I gone for taking the delivery of the car. Remember, I booked the car through phone calls and online money transfer without visiting the dealer once and without doing any TD of the car. I was thinking to buy  Swift dzire and some how I do not like the rear end design. Once I saw  last year auto expo photos, experts view and friends and colleague recommendation I just decided on this car!

For me, it is an all-in-all car and a better value for money car!

every bits and pieces of this carFront styling and suspension