The perfect car to Buy- Thanks to TATA.

Let me start with whats not good in the car.
The only thing which could have been better is the Plastic quality used( eg places like door handle, instrument control like the headlight/wiper, glove box locking). Its good enough. You'll notice it only if u meticulously look at it.

Now comes the good part of it.
Everything about this car is gr8.


The price is unbeatable no competition at all.
Only car clsoe to this is DZire, but Dzire loses out on space( by a large margin) and DZire is easily the ugliest car on road( no offence to DZIre owners).

Space is unmatched. No car comes even remotely close to the space it offers. Legroom, headroom, bootspace( 490ltrs) is too good. even with the front seat fully pushed back. the rear seat has so much leg room. Logan is kinda spacious too. But its got the taxi image and never looks lik a car any1 would want to buy.

Features are too good for the price. check out the official link here for features http://www.cars.tatamotors.com/IndigoManza/Spec_Int.html . It has steering controlled volume. can also connect ur phone via bluetooth and can make calls, and receive calls. comes with a pretty decent music system. has numpad also to dial numbers. has a display to show how many litres of fuel is left. also shows how many kms u can travel with the fuel left.

Coming to the heart of the car. i.e.
The Engine. It comes in 2 variants. the world renowned Safire and quadrajet engines. Both these engines and gearboxes are from fiat. ( in swift diesel the gear box is from maruti, only engine is from fiat ).  check out this link for tech specs. http://www.cars.tatamotors.com/IndigoManza/Tech_Specs.html
I test drove both the petrol and diesel. the petrol is decent enough not as peppy as my 15 year old esteem though. but the diesel is just too awesome. once the turbo kicks in @ 1800rpm. It feels lik u got NOS on ur car. pulls u like mad. 200 Nm of torque. amazing. never felt lik drivin a petrol again. and also the engine(&gearbox) is designed so well that even at very low rpms the car never jerks. this is sth very very much needed in traffic( i live in Bangalore). at speeds of around 15kmph in 4th gear, ther were no jerks. Wonder how Fiat managed to do this. Hats off to them. and hats off to TATA for using this engine.

Looks.
I loved it. It looks like a BIG car, which it ofcourse is. its anyday better than logan and DZire( seriously what was maruti thinkin when they approved the design of DZire??). Agreed that city and civic and cruze look stylish. This one is stylish and classy too in its own terms. ages ahead wrt DZire and logan.
When u look at the car from inside its looks very posh with the dual tone interiors. It looks lik you are in a 14lac car.

Ride quality.
The suspension was dam smooth when i test drove it. it feel lik u are just flying in air. way way better than the comfort offerred by my esteem. the view for the driver is gr8. no black spots or claustrophobic( like in the swift). The bonnet of the car is small enough[remember this is an extention over Indica vista]. WAsnt able to drive it on a highway, but when i drove in the city the car felt very stable and dint experice any understeer or anything.

BE Indian BUY Indian.
I'm finally so happy. A fully Indian  company has launched a superb car thats gonna thrash the competition from all sides.

Service network. Its a TATA car. so u'll find ur nearest service station no matter wher you are in the country. Some people say aftersales service is not good. I have no idea about it and will not comment without any knowledge.

Coming to Fuel Efficieny.
Not many cars are on road, and no feed back is available yet. but since the saem diesel engine is used in swift/manza/punto/linea. the figures are close enough to compare. The diesel is expected to give around 16 and petrol to give around 12 in city with AC. When i was test driving diesel ( very rashly, that how i drive) i asked the showroom guy.. "This is how i drive.. how much mileage will i get?? he said the worst mileage diesel can come down to is 14. This is purely based on wjhat the showroom guy has told. I havent tested anything. The showroom guy also told that in diesel if u dont go above 2000RPM( i.e. if u dont use the turbo).. u can get mileage of 17 in city.

Seriously speaking. This is the best car launched in a long long time. If i were given this car and told to improve it. I wouldnt know what to do. May be i would ahve made the plastic wuality used better. Dont go by this, or dont rule out the car coz of this. See for urself once.. it may not appear bad to u at all.

In many reviews you'll find that the plastic quality used is not the best.. My explanation for that is people have to fill something for the cons section and thats the only thing they can point at, coz everything else is so awesome. It doesnt mean worst quality plastic is used. It's just not as impressive as everythin else in the car.
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