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I will tell you everything I experienced about Duster in this review.

I entered the Renault showroom at Thane on Sunday afternoon, saw this Red semi-loaded Duster standing in corner , I was already excited to get a hands on it so quickly pounced in to the drivers seat to get the feel of everything.

Looks of the Duster are pretty awesome, it looks like a modern muscular SUV, the Tires are wide & look good with the alloys and there’s a lot of space between body and tire for the suspensions which gives a heighted SUV look.

When I grabbed the handle to open the door, the door felt super light, almost my Santro, the handle was also made up of some cheap material. When I closed the door it banged loudly.

The rear seat A/c vents were broken, the seat Fabric was made of super cheap fabric, there were no steering mounted controls but the steering wheels had some controls at the back, which weren’t visible unless you take your head forward to see what those controls do.

Overall the plastic feel is not that good , it looks like that of cheap quality. I am not sure what that is really made up of. But one thing I am really sure is that Renault guys have really used a thin sheet of Metal to create the outer Body, which you can easily find out by punching on one of the side doors, it straight forward goes in and is ready for denting.

So now I thought to test drive the Vehicles and the process was done in 5 mins, I was ready with a white color 110 PS fully loaded Duster. One sales person Mr.X accompanied me, he was kind of over friendly and allowed me to really Test the Duster to full Extent.

I unlocked the Vehicles by press of a button on the Keys, I went to insert the Keys but Mr.X told me not needed, there’s an engine start button on the right, I was amazed. it required me to press the clutch and brake and press the button, engine started.

The area where vehicle was parked was Dusty so I expected Duster to create a sand storm, Dust kicking, & tyres burning when I accelerated to the possible on Start. But sadly nothing happened, it took 3-4 seconds for the vehicle to begin rolling.the engine was not at all roary as I expected, it was slow and lame on pickup. So when you stop at a signal don’t expect to WIN the drag race, so we went ahead, the TURBO kicked after some 2k RPM the vehicle gather some power, the steering was really really awesome.

You can view the entire world from the vehicles, the visibility is really good. I slowed at a coming speed breaker, MR.X said don’t do it on next one, so there was another one after few distance, I ran over it on 60+ and it absorbed majority of the shock, with little shake.

I was amazed by the suspension quality,. Then at an empty road Mr.X told me to do something funny,,he asked me to turn left and take the vehicle on the side way where the Pedestrians walk, but there were no people on Sunday afternoon, so for my delight, I took the Duster over that side walk which was almost at 6 inch’s hight, the Vehicle got on it easily I guess due to awesome Big tyres, than we drove over some broken roads, the suspensions are really good and the handling was what amazed me, the steering is really lively. I tried to Brake hard twice and thrice, it was really decent, the car stopped immediately after some meters. The A/C was decent in afternoon Heat not too chilling though.

I was really delighted by the cars performance besides Turbo Lag in the beginning. I reached showrrom and the mager said the vehicle has 3.5 month waiting period, the onroad cost was 13.5 L for 110PS.

I will list some pro’s & con’s as summary.

Good things : Suspension (A+), Handling A, Boot Space, Tyres, Button Start Stop engine, Mileage 15+ as claimed. Overall good for highways.

Bad things: interior’s plastic, seat cover fabric, thin Sheet metal used in Body, Turbo Lag, 5 seater, waiting period. Not sure about the Service they provide.

Overall the car needs a lot of modifications or improvement in the long term.

Suspension (A+), Handling A, Boot Space, Tyres, Button Start Stop engine, Mileage 15+ as claimed. Ovinterior’s plastic, seat cover fabric, thin Sheet metal used in Body, Turbo Lag, 5 seater, waiting p