Team-BHP - Tata Hexa : Official Review

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Originally Posted by black_rider (Post 4144930)

Wheels make a car. This must be the reason why Tata changed Hexa's wheel to those flashy 19 inchers. That's Aria, right there, trying to pose in its new clothes. They should've changed the steel wheel design too.

Absolutely agreed.

Wheels make the car. They should have had those 19inchers std on the XM variant as well. Extra incremental cost is inconsequential; the street cred and feel good factor of the vehicle would have remain intact. If nothing else, they should have provided good looking wheel covers at least. As it is, the Hexa XM looks rather ordinary and utilitarian. The wow element is totally lost.

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Originally Posted by Shreyans_Jain (Post 4144933)

+1
Everybody who has driven the Hexa so far has no qualms over the quality of the product or it's pricing with respect to the competition. However, Tata seems to have missed a trick or two to sweeten the deal for the consumers by not providing certain features in all their variants and which in turn has given an excuse to people. Some such variant wise features:
XE: Varicor 400, enuf said!
XM: Automatic Climate Control, Cruise Control, Dynamic mode, Alloys (even 17 inch rims would have done).
XT: Push Start button, Smart key, Sunroof (can be retrofitted but at dealer level).
All these features at more or less the same pricing would have been killer.
Note - Features mentioned are a personal choice, add as per your own requirements :)

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Originally Posted by wilful (Post 4145121)

Congrats! You are probably the first Bhpian to get delivery.:thumbs up

Actually he's the second bhpian.

Is there any news on the TUFF edition of the Hexa. Is it Available for booking. I have already booked a TD on the Hexa app but no demo car still in my city and Tata showroom is in shambles. Whereas the Toyota and Hyundai showrooms are more welcoming and upmarket. Tata has a tough task with this attitude of their dealers.

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Originally Posted by VKumar (Post 4144302)

A special thanks to Mr. Haris for sharing these pics with fellow enthusiasts. Looks like a Hexa TD car underwent a major mishap, and seems to have fared well.
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EDIT: Is it only me, or the side airbags have failed to deploy? If yes, then Tata; be ready with a justification for the same.

Ford EcoSport was involved in few accidents during initial days of its launch, it stuck my mind when I saw pictures of the crashed Hexa.

From the review, Tata has a winner on hand :thumbs up. These days it’s the features and pricing of the Tata vehicles which stand out from the competition, read Tiago and now Hexa.

I hope ASS won’t let the product down. Initial owners, insight on this?

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Originally Posted by Nilay (Post 4145179)

Tata Hexa scored 6,000 pre-booking out of which 60 percent were for automatic transmission variants.

http://auto.economictimes.indiatimes...month/57118421

Not sure if it is 3000 or 6000. Some reports at the time of launch mentioned it as 3000.

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/auto/st.../1/859388.html

http://www.ibtimes.co.in/tata-hexa-r...30-lakh-712558

IMO Tata's sole USP might just be its Automatic Mid variant, i.e. the XMA. Because of the price advantage. The steel wheels don't look good, wish they realise that and sell it with the Alloys, even at a slightly higher cost.

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Originally Posted by Sac (Post 4144639)

The media cars are photographed and videographed so if the vehicle ever got punctured do you expect them to replace it with a steel wheel ?

No.
A vast majority of brands (including luxury brands) whose cars are reviewed by Team-BHP and other auto journalists, provide a non-alloy spare wheel during media drives.

Some people think a media drive is only a photography-session, its not so. Enthusiast / honest reviewers will know that we aren't only looking for how it looks, we're mainly looking for how it performs mechanically, or, if its interiors are ergonomically well designed etc.

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Originally Posted by abhi7013 (Post 4144526)

...Cause i asked a staff today who was present in the Bangalore hexa experience (and is my assigned SA at the dealer). He says no single car had it so, apart from the models which were showcased under the "tuff kits" outside the experience centre entrance.

So I'm being pitted against hearsay apparently from the staff who've been made to sign a statement by Tata Motors that the cars only come with 4 alloys.

Lets see.

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Originally Posted by r0nit7 (Post 4144998)

...XE: Varicor 400, enuf said!...

XE Variant is 320NM.

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Originally Posted by anthiltg (Post 4144927)

Tata Hexa makes Mahindra offer benefits of upto INR 70,000 on XUV500

http://www.oncars.in/car-news/tata-h...n-xuv500/13886

Such "benefits" were launched post demonetisation itself. Could be inaccurate to say the discount is solely attributed to the Hexa.

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Originally Posted by r0nit7 (Post 4144998)

Some such variant wise features:
XE: Varicor 400, enuf said!
XM: Automatic Climate Control, Cruise Control, Dynamic mode, Alloys (even 17 inch rims would have done).
XT: Push Start button, Smart key, Sunroof (can be retrofitted but at dealer level).

Car makers deliberately keep these features for their REFRESHED versions of the car IMO.

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Originally Posted by carwatcher (Post 4144319)

To be honest its obvious that the ride and drive quality of the Hexa has to be better as its a X-over while Endy is an SUV. The direct and only competitor for Hexa is XUV5OO and all other belong to other segments.

Disagree. Because -

TATA Hexa is a body on frame UV like the Endeavour. XUV 5OO is not!

When it comes to looks, XUV is more closer to the Endeavour than the Hexa is! But that doesn't matter.