Good car, excellent feature with a right price tag

Exterior

The exterior could have been a bit more robust in terms of looks. Antenna could have been shorter

Interior (Features, Space & Comfort)

The height of the seat, dual airbag etc.. should be a common thing as a feature for both AMT and Manual versions. The AMT lacks them beside some other cosmetic changes. 

Engine Performance, Fuel Economy and Gearbox

Many people are complaining about the AMT version not being very smotth during an automated shift. I would say that gets noticed because your mind is not engaged in pressing the clutch or changing the gear manually. This small lag is acceptable. The manual sports mode with the + and - is really good when you want to feel the adrenaline.

***An experience which tok away the happiness of driving this car***

Fifth day after I bought the car, all of a sudden the car started making rattling noise from the gear box which is constant and can be heard loud and clear in the manual as well as drive mode, Reverse mode. Service center has no expertise as they have never heard of it. They took help from Maruti to figure out the issue is with the gear box. Part was ordered and was received in 7 days. It was connected and here it goes down again due to some software error. Again no expertise in AMT, service team relied on AMT  experts in New Delhi. 3-4 days went and no one was able to figure what can be done to fix the error. Then I told the service center to take the test drive celerio AMT and replace parts with my car in a round robin fashion to identify the faulty part(s). So, they now say that they have identified the faulty part and has ordered another part for the software problem from Maruti and that will take another 7 days. Hoping that it gets fixed in another 5 days. A 5 day old car in service center for more that 14 days

Ride Quality & Handling

It is really good. With 5 people in the car, the bottom of the car do not touch some high bumpers on the road. I have seen some Dzires to touch the bumps with even 3 people in the rear seat and just the driver 

Final Words

As a car, I always wanted someone in India to come with this concept. I have desierd to own this car since its launch and when I bought it, this is what I am going through

Areas of improvement  

Service - Improve working knowledge among Maruti technicians and troubleshooting steps of the AMT version

Car - If AMT was targeted to NRIs and Female drivers then it should have features on the AMT such as multiple airbags, Allow wheel etc.

 

 

Spacious, implementation of AMT (Good Concept), interior finishing, look and feelCould have been a bit robust from outside