[yogiii]

Originally Posted by Venkatesh

Maruti Suzuki has launched the Grand Vitara CNG at Rs 12.85 lakh.

For the "Premium" segment they could have brought in the CNG version with the 6 speed AT. Economy plus convenience, best combination for city driving.

[TorqueIndia]

Originally Posted by tj123

Just back from a 12 days year-end round trip to Kerala, covered around 1850 km (~65% highway, 35% mixed traffic and some ghat sections near Munnar). We were 4 adults with a full boot. Managed to get a mileage of 19.7Kmpl as per the trip meter. My driving is generally conservative and kept my speed 70 to 90Kmph on highways.

Great figures for your GV mild drive AT variant, makes me wonder how could a hybrid version justify its price difference.

Also affordable CNG is clearly another tough competition for the hybrid.

[tj123]

Originally Posted by TorqueIndia

Great figures for your GV mild drive AT variant, makes me wonder how could a hybrid version justify its price difference.

Yes one needs to do a lot of running (especially city driving) to utilize the full benefit of a strong hybrid. I generally do WFH hence I don’t have much of a city drive.
On highways there is not much of a huge difference between both variants, I was able to easily get 24~26Kmpl.

Attached are highway drive stats generated by the Suzuki connect app.

https://portal-in.suzukiconnect.info...J3Xq%20JzE7o9z

https://portal-in.suzukiconnect.info...pKJ3Xq+JzE7o9z

[Motorhead23]

Maruti is helpless and has no choice but to introduce CNG version across all models in their portfolio. As I have already mentioned in an other thread on upcoming CAFE Stage 2.
With NO Diesel, NO Turbo Petrols, NO Strong Hybrid [Except Vitara] they have to have CNGs across mass selling variants to avoid huge penalties.
With rising CNG prices, if the sales don't pick up in near term, we might see some discounting as well.

https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/india...ml#post5469873 (Diesel engines: The past, present & future)

[baarish84]

Originally Posted by tj123

Yes one needs to do a lot of running (especially city driving) to utilize the full benefit of a strong hybrid. I generally do WFH hence I don’t have much of a city drive.
On highways there is not much of a huge difference between both variants, I was able to easily get 24~26Kmpl.

I agree. Strong Hybrids shine primarily in City driving.

I understand, on highways , mileage advantage for strong hybrid is 3 to 4 kmpl over mild variant.

In City limits, with flowing traffic, such advantage increase to 7 to 8 kmpl.

In City limits, with bumper to bumper slow moving traffic, advantage almost toches 10kmpl (as Car crawls forward on battery for long perio without waking up engine).

For me, my daily driving is combination of scenario 2 & 3. only 5 to 10% of my drive will be on open highways. Now I have started getting 21kmpl on strong hybrid variant of Hyryder.

[sathish81]

Got delivery of GV hybrid variant on Friday. One question for other GV owners- Did you get a hard copy of owner's manual? I did not- seems Maruthi does not give a printed copy of manual for GV and Baleno. Can someone confirm?

[tj123]

Originally Posted by sathish81

Got delivery of GV hybrid variant on Friday. One question for other GV owners- Did you get a hard copy of owner's manual? I did not- seems Maruthi does not give a printed copy of manual for GV and Baleno. Can someone confirm?

Another cost cutting measure no hardcopy , you can download the owners manual from website.

[sathish81]

Originally Posted by tj123

Another cost cutting measure no hardcopy , you can download the owners manual from website.

Thanks for the confirmation. I guess I will download the PDF and print it out, get some kind of binding done- shouldn't cost more than 1k.

I prefer reading stuff from "books"/"paper" to screens.

[Venkatesh]

Maruti Grand Vitara three-row to take on XUV700, Safari

- Internally codenamed Maruti Y17

- Three-row SUV will have same underpinnings as Grand Vitara

- Will come with petrol, petrol hybrid powertrain options

- Will roll out from its new Kharkhoda plant by 2025

Source

[volkman10]

Grand Vitara at the Auto Expo - Matte black

[aks812]

Originally Posted by volkman10

Grand Vitara at the Auto Expo - Matte black

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Still don't understand the logic why females are made to stand beside the cars. I have been to the Auto Expo in 2016 and feel sorry for these girls because of the pathetic crowd that comes to the expo.

[Aldo280]

Originally Posted by giri1.8

Decided to go for Blaupunkt key largo 980 for our Grand vitara Sigma, the option of front camera was one of the key points that made us go for it. Overall quite happy with sound quality and features, hopefully will be able to integrate few more features like TPMS in the future.

Surprisingly car had two stock speakers on the front door, decided to ditch it for infinity component speakers.

Could you reveal how much did the whole setup cost with speakers and how is the user experience with key largo in terms of smoothness, speed, time taken to come on after ignition

I have booked hyryder neo drive e variant and in search for a good infotainment system and speakers.

[dhinchak]

Anyone got the boot mat for the strong hybrid? Nexa does not seem to have one available as an accessory.

[giri1.8]

Originally Posted by Aldo280

Could you reveal how much did the whole setup cost with speakers and how is the user experience with key largo in terms of smoothness, speed, time taken to come on after ignition

I have booked hyryder neo drive e variant and in search for a good infotainment system and speakers.

I don't have the exact breakup, but overall cost was 42k. This included the 9 inch head unit, infinity components for the front, infinity coaxial for the rear, wires, rear and front camera and installation charges.

Had plenty of bitter experience with aftermarket installation, so decided to get it done from a reputed shop, overall cost is probably higher than market price.

Overall it's a decent head unit, it's an android system but doesn't have Android auto or apple car play, one can use hotspot from mobile to install required apps or one can use mirror function. Boot up speed is quite fast, touch is responsive and UI is easy to use. Haven't loaded too many apps, so it's fast enough for now.

Sound quality is good, much better than vanilla OEM ones. Not much of an audiophile so can't comment more on this.

One thing I like is it's OEM like looks, fits the dash perfectly.

[Venkatesh]

Maruti Grand Vitara CNG arrives at dealer showroom.

https://youtu.be/L4nMqkou6Xk