Rexton Rx7 Ownership Experience

Exterior Just awesome. Got my RX7 around 20 days back. Its a real head turner on the road. Great looks and no unnecessary and ugly nostrils on the bonnet.

Interior (Features, Space & Comfort) Best in this segment. I have evaluated Fortuner, Pajero, Endeavour and Captiva. It has the best features. Loved the easy access feature. The moment you take the key out from ignition, the seat rolls back and lower for the driver to go out or enter easy. The memory function brings not only the seat to the drivers preferred position, but also adjusts the two side rear view mirrors accordingly. Loved the Sunroof. You can keep the wndows up and open the sunroof to avoid your hairs going messy. I have installed a rearview camera and parking is so much more fun and easy. Enough space in the seond row and third row is quite low for an adult to sit. However I am not too happy with the third row of any other in this segment. Vanity mirror overhead comes with built in light, great help actually. One tough Window roll up at the driver side is of great help too, specially after paying toll tax or parking ticket. Headlight leveler is quite effective and makes a difference. Entertainment system is great. The manual peddle shift gear is quite interesting, though I need to understand more on how to use this. Tried to shifting to 5th gear quite fast and the car still behaved as if there is no strain to pick up. Wanted to be careful so as to avoid any shock to the engine and hence did not try that much. Overall interior has quite a rich look and feel.

Engine Performance, Fuel Economy and Gearbox Engine is smooth and picks up very fast. From standing still state if you press the accelerator, for about 0.5 second nothing happens but post that it picks up like a rocket. so one needs to be careful while managing that momentum. One thing which could be improved is the roar from the engine when you accelerate from a lower speed. Engines roars and it feels like the vehicle is racing in first gear. I tried doing that with manual peddle shift as well but no luck. But if you release the accelerator peddle after racing a bit, the engine feels like butter while maintaining the speed. This confuses me quite a bit. I am suspecting that the roaring noise comes from radiator fan. Shown it to the service station guy as well, but not sure how well are they trained. I hope by the time I reach 10k km, these guys will be trained enough to address my queries.

Fule Economy does not seem to be great. But how much shall we expect from an SUV of that size! I guess its giving me around 8km/ltr with mixed 30% Highway and 70% city driving. Is it due to the AT and has any linkage to the engine roar I mentioned above? Not sure. However my friend driving Fortuner and Captiva says they get 10kmpl. Not sure whether they measure it right.

Gear is smooth and great! No jerks but the trasmission rate for higher shift may be little sluggish.

Ride Quality & Handling Ride quality is out of the world. Smooth and terrific pick up except the first 0.5-1 second. Handling is almost like sedan. I have taken narrow U turns in busy road and no issues. Handbrake is little far off, as if the co-passenger is going to apply that. The car front dives a bit while appling brakes but not a major issue. Bound to happen with that momentum.

Final Words A great vehicle and real value for money. Even after paying another 5lakhs I was not getting same features. Love when people point fingers and turn heads on the road looking at this wonderful beast.

Areas of improvement

1. Engine Roar - Not sure anything can be done. More than the noise, the feeling that a lot of Fuel getting burnt is the issue.

2. Glove box - why such a small glove box?

3. At this segment a cooler box inside was expected. Even XUV has that.

4. Tiretronincs - An indicator would have been good. Though I have filled up Nitrogen and dont want to look at it in another two months.

5. Other indicators - Fuel average, distance to next petrol pump etc would have been good.

6. Hand brake should move towards the driver :)

7. The second row should be able to slide forward so that one can make more space for the third row.

Features, Interior, Ride Quality, sense of luxuryFuel Consumption, Engine Roar