Superb MPV, Great car from TATA

 

I am driving Indigo CS LS TDI , diesel for the last 3 years and this is the first time I am test driving a utility vehicle. The vehicle was Venture EX. The exterior looked attractive with dark shaded window glass. The vehicle has high ground clearance. Wheels are 14 inch in radius and wide and looks big for the car, wheel caps are standard. The car has two front doors , 1 sliding door only at the left side and one door at the back. The sliding door has child safety feature and can be locked when open. Side mirrors are big and wide. The windows from inside looks futuristic.

We were 3 people in the car. Interiors were really good and matches that of a good sedan. The doors are thick and the plasic is silver in color. In all the ambience is very good. One seat near the sliding door need be folded for entry for rear passengers and the folding of the seat is a neat one. The second row of seating is the best . There is extra space and one can even put luggage near the feet. The vehicle engine sits in between the seats of the driver and co-driver. The engine is encapsulated very beautifuly with high quality plastic and with great design. The encapsulation cuts off 98% of sound and 100% heat of the engine. The engine sounds like Fiat Quadrajet diesel engine and is less noisy. The very nice part is the A/C design. Apart from the regular position at the front there are multiple vents at the top on the roof of the middle row seats and back row seats. There  the circulation of cold air to the back seats can be initiated/stopped by a switch at the driver's switch panel. The dash board is refined with two glove boxes, coin holder, switch panel and looks very sleek. The car has 7/8 seating option with bucket seats (no bench seating).

The engine is 1400 cc engine and provides 14km/lt mileage in city as per the dealer guys. The clutch is very soft and the gear shift handle is very well positioned and beautiful. The gear shift seemed to be little hard to me though. The 1st gear gear seem to be sluggish and the vehicle is not a high pickup vehicle. But in you reach higher speed slowly and then turbo charges in.

Vehicle manuevring is really good and power steering is very effective for such a long vehicle. For me driving the van is really fun as the sitting is high and at front  but I felt like getting tossed up in deep potholes or road bumpers. The suspension is really good and I felt that while moving over road bumpers. I found later that suspension is based on springs on all the four wheels. Power window and car audio, body cloured bumpers is absent in EX model. AC is absent in CX model. The top model has all the features but  ABS, Airbag, Alloywheel is absent I believe. All are EURO III compliant.

 

Safety: seatbelt, front steel structure chasis to counter impact.

 

Pricing kolkata:

CX : ex-showroom - 413506, onroad: 455000

EX : ex-showroom - 463951, onroad: 510000

GX : ex-showroom - 514395, onroad: 560000

 

Loved the car for all the stylish looks and features and passenger capacity and luggage space (space behind back row seats and middle row space) and moderately powerful engine and price.

 

Futuristic style, high comfort and leg space, great ambience, low noise diesel engine.Gear shift, pickup