Good small family car, but not the best

 

Exterior Front look and rear looks are awesome. Colour quality, shape, head lights, tail lights are all excellent and make you a proud owner of the car.

Interior (Features, Space & Comfort) As compared to other cars in this segment, Interior is spacious (no claustrophobia here), good leg-room and comfortable seats. However, after 4 months of driving I've noticed a very unusal thing about driver's seat. If you look at it properly and compare it with adjacent seat, you will find driver seat is not facing exactly straight on the road. Instead it is facing slightly towards right edge of the car. This is not something that you may notice on first few rides. You may notice while taking a right turn (not so sharp one) that the right edge of the car obstructs your visibility badly.

Engine Performance, Fuel Economy and Gearbox Engine is terrific and gear shifting is as easy as it could be. Shifting to reverse gear may need extra efforts. Pick up is good but power on 3rd gear is little low. If car is standing still say on red signal and if you turn A/C on, engine noise and vibration is prominent inside. But no problem once it starts moving.

Fuel economy is not what they promise. I've driven it more than 3500 Kms in last 4 months.

Initially for first month, it gave me mileage of 10 km/lt. for 50%  of time A/C was on in city driving conditions.

After first service mileage didn't improve much. The dealer said that they do not tweak any settings in the first servce and just make some checks.

Now, after four months, it is giving me a mileage of 12-13 kmpl on an average with 50% of time A/C on. I believe it will improve further after second servicing of it.

Ride Quality & Handling You feel very happy each time you drive it. Ride Quality is good and handling it even for a beginner is very easy. However, as I mentioned, driver's seat is slightly facing towards the right edge which may give your body unusual discomfort on the long drive (6-8 hrs continuous drive). 

The suspension could have been better. When you drive overr uneven road (or Mumbai's pothole laden roads) there is this dhadak.. dhadak.. nosie inside the car. But the jerks you feel inside are of low intensity (as compared to size of the pothole). This noise can be very annoying at times especially if you are driving on Mumbai roads.

Otherwise, its very comfortable for upto 5 hrs of drive.

Final Words  I actually expected lot out of this car and to some extent I got what they promised. However, Fuel economy is hurting me badly and more so because of ever increasing petrol prices.

Also, 1.2 Kappa2 engine cannot be converted to CNG which I would have gone for in next few months sighting the poor fuel economy and rising petrol prices.

This car is a good family car for weekends and if you do not mind spending extra on the fuel, it is good for daily commuting as well.

No doubt the family members will be delighted to have this car (as they are not aware or not bothered about the fuel economy and driver's condition).

Areas of improvement Mileage, Mileage and Mileage. If that is improved, only then they should focus on Driver's seat alignment.

Driving comfort, Quite Engine, Interior & Exterior Looks, Plastic Quality, good a/cFuel economy, Driver's seat position, top speed, suspension