Awesome Car, with little compromise

I brought my car on 4- Sep-2010 (Pearl Dew White color, quadrajet Aura BS4).

Now it run for 15K Kms. VERY VERY happy manza customer till date.

found a very useful and helpful person at Concord motors, who takes care of my car very well during services.

Exterior : Except back look car looks awesome (specially white one)

Interior (Features, Space & Comfort) : Features are the best with Bluetooth,lumbar support,stearing audio controls, DIS(Average mileage indicator, distance to empty indicator and outside temperature indicator), door open warning, indivial lights for each passenger(this is very helpfull when co driver want to read something while car is on move) , 7 speed Wiper, light in Glovebox, huge space all over the car, 2 power sockets, perfect thigh support for all the seats,on an emergency 4 can accomadate in back seat. Get in and out of car is very easly bcoz of good car's height.

Engine Performance, Fuel Economy and Gearbox: Engine is AWESOME (as this is FIAT engine). very rarely u feel turbo lag, but once we keep the engine at over 1800 RPM so issues at all.

When car goes above 2400 RPM u feel like flying and u will be pushed back to ur seats.

After driving many cars i felt stearing (bcoz of Hydrolic powerstearing compared to electronic one in others) and gear box in this car is very very hard.

 Mileage : when i drive in bumper to bumper traffic with full A/c i get just 12- 12.5 KMPL. Driving in normal easy traffic movement in the city i get around 14 KMPL with limited AC usage. when i drive on highway with Full AC i get 18.5 - 19 KMPL

Ride Quality & Handling:
Ride is AWESOME, u can drive 300-400 Kms easily without taking any breaks. 

Car Handling at high speeds are not very impressive. Very difficult to stop when car is hitting more than 3000 RPM, may be ABS version will not have this problem.

When car goes above 130 KMPH speed, stearing wheel and gear knob vibrates a lot.

Final Words

Some one looking for sedan in the range of 7-9 Lakhs, just go for this car. but please make sure u do a through PDI before taking the car and also after buying if u find any issue then raise it to the highest level in TATA rather than to service/ sales excutives.

all its rivals are either costlier (verna, Rapid,Vento) or waiting period is more than 5 month(desire) or very expensive after sales service (Rapid,Fiesta classic) or shrinked space (Dzire,IKON) or  horrible looks (Verito - logan) or huge compromize for quality (Etios).

My friends are repenting for not buying this car.

And this car will sure make ur neighbour jealousy for sure.

Areas of improvement  

• change its rare look.
• improve plastic quality inside and outside.
• hire some well qualified people for Sales and Service

 

SPACE, Engine (FIAT),Bluetooth, VFM,looks (except rare look),pickupplastic quality, fit and finish, road grip