Overall a Good Car

Exterior:

In par with a imported car, body line and overall finish is good. Strong body, profile of the autobody makes the car strong. Complex design well handled and delivered. Welding of sheet metal components are quite good, and dont have the conventional TATA car in mind, since this product is manufactured in FIAT plant, and engineers do the same job of Linea in Manza. Nomenclature of the car body is similar to TOYOTO Coralla, or a A segment car. No doubt. Painting is quite good, suggest to go for a 3M scratch and strain guard polish to add more glamour. Overall a wonderful improvement by TATA.

Interior:

The interiors are in-complete without proper or say a decent mats. Tata could have charged 1 K more and given a good mat. I dont know how a CHEAP map was put inside the car, mats are not flowing with the car floor, warps, and looks odd for the car, Better use a multi purpose synthetic mat inside, you get in several car interior shops, cost Rs 600, but overall improves the looks of the car. Also when you carefully notice from inside, the plastic components colour is not uniform inside the vechile. I am not happy with the rubber beedings used inside the car, oer the front windsheild not aligning with the plastic railing from dash to roof, inside.

Features:

+ Decent music system, has two speakers in Dash, 2 speaker in front doors, and 2 in rear. caution, no speaker in rear door, but there is a provision for 2 more speaker. default music system plays MP3, and all most of the music formats, (-) not scalable for DVD. USB cannot plan hard disk. + Plays up to 4 GM memory stick. + Sound quaity is good. + Blue tooth is a wonderful feature you will appreciate when driving in traffic.

Space:

Excellent, no other car is this good. See to believe. Rear seats are also great, feel like a king or a royal when you travel on long distance. +++ for seating and leg room. I am above 6'3" and can easily get in, get out and seat comfortabally. Best Seating than Benz or BMW. But the fabric looks can be improved like Hyundai. Top fabric is not great, looks cheap.

Overall the interios can be made classy, which will attract more customers.

Engine Performance, Fuel Economy and Gearbox:

I have a Diesel engine, super quite, transition from 1000 to 4000 RPM with ease, thanks to TATA for bringing such a great technology. People say this is FIAT engine, and similar to Dzire, or SWIFT, but there is some seceret formula TATA use in MANZA or Linea. This power plant is a world class for its capacity, and pick up is excellent. Super quite engine, loads of power. I have driven with 5 adults at a speed of 160 Kms, you will not believe the Speedometer works like a RPM on high ways, i mean the transition from 60 to 100 happens in few seconds, easily overtake all cars on road with confidence, ABS is excellent in cornoring. No skid or bad shakes etc.

Milage: Get around 650 Kms with 40 L of diesel. Inside city i get 15.3 Kms on High way i get more than 18kms, with 5 adults, speed of 100 to 160 kms, Medium A/c, partly driven in nights. So if you drive at decent speed, you can expect 19 kms. Gear box is a sweet heart, such smooth

Ride Quality & Handling:

Excellent on high way as well as city use. When climbing on a speed breaker, and getting down from speed breaker, you feel you ride a small car or like Indica, that feel is not changed for this product. When climbing down from a speed breaker, i hear friction kind of noice from front struts. Platform is high, so never hits small objects on ground, can ride over a manhole cover projected high with confidence even with load. Steering is plastic, and feel is not good, go for a simple thin and soft steering cover to get a good feel, tiltable steering, good on high ways. Handle with authority in hills. If you have tight steering, you can adjust them in TATA outlet, hope they use a ECU based control unit to change steering tightness. Ride is superb on high way as well inside city. When you own it, you dont feel bad that your investment is made on a right product, this car is always better than FORD Fiesta, Skoda Fabia, Laura when comes to comfort and price.

Final Words:

You will not feel bad when you own a TATA MANZA AURA ABS.(Diesel)

Far better than other cars, I tried so many cars for few months before i settled with MANZA.

If you see this car in detail, you will sure go for MANZA, but have a open mind to repace floor mats, and do few value adds on cosmetic front, this car will look great and turn heads of people. A car for a young and old person, Feel of the car, engine is great. Buy, ride to feel it.

Be aware of choosing TATA MOTORS service personal, I dont doubt their skills, but this car is a next generation product for most of the car mechanics, and some times they will not be able to get back the feel of the real car. I believe the current generation mechanics depend more on equipments, instruments than their senses. Hope TATA will look into it.

BE AWARE THAT TATA POST DELIVERY CHECK IS NOT CORRECT. MAKE SURE THAT YOU SPEND AN HOUR TO ENSURE THE FEATURES, AND SYSTEM WORKS AS MENTIONED IN THE VECHILE PDI CHECK LIST. SINCE I HAD ISSUES WITH ABS LIGHT, REAR TAIL LAMP NOT WORKING, SPEEDOMETER NOT WORKING. It is our responsibility to make sure we check the vechile before taking delivery.

Areas of improvement:

Interiors, PDI check, Quality of Service and maintain quality since Jan 2010. Do continue to use the LINEA engine,  

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