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Hello All,
Now this is going to be a strange comparison.
To give a bit of background, we currently have an Octavia TDI (2016 model) and an Alto 800. In current environment of working from home Alto is only used for daily errands like grocery shopping and few other purpose. The weekend drives, highways and other fun drives are taken care by Octavia. Both myself and my wife are working in the same organization which is just a km from our home, so which means once we start going back to office our daily car usage will still be less.
Now we are looking to replace the Alto 800 with a new hatchback. This will be a beater car which again will be only used within city, office runs, weekend runs to malls. This will also be the drive for my wife for her errands (though she hardly drives). Also will be used to ferry family within city.
Considering the limited use we had set the original budget of 7.5 Lakhs OTR Bangalore. However as we started searching the cars our budgets is increased to 10.5 L. Now considering for every 50k increase in budget you get a better car, we want to put cap on our maximum budget which is 11 L OTR Bangalore.
The requirements are:
Based on these criteria's we have shortlisted and test driven the Tata Tiago XZA+ Dual Tone AMT, Grand i10 Nios AMT Asta, Swift ZXI+ AMT Dual Tone and i20 1.0 Turbo iMT Sportz
Version: Top end - XZA+ AMT Dual Tone (~ 8.5 L OTR)
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Version: Top end AMT Asta (~ 9.8 L OTR)
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Version: Top end ZXI+ AMT (~ 10.7 L OTR)
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Version: 1 L Turbo iMT Sportz (~ 11 L OTR).
Did not do a test drive of iMT yet, but have driven my friend's 1.0 L Turbo DCT i20 extensively. Considering i20 only for turbo engine.
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Now this is a wild card entry. Have never driven Jazz, but have extensively driven all generations of City and I am not a big fan of it. Though Jazz has more premium feel and space, worried about the future of Honda and Jazz. Are they going to continue this model with ~ 700 units per month. Is it worth considering Jazz? How good is the real world performance? The mid variant comes in my budget.
If the car was only for me I would have closed my eyes and bought a Polo TSI GT (even if slightly more expensive). But since this will be mainly used to ferry family within city I need more space. Also wifey needs more features, so Polo is out.
Nissan / Renault are not considered due to limited dealership support and I need a fuss free ownership, not confident of them yet.
Venue / Sonet are not considered as they only have iMT or DCT which is not my preference. Also wanted to restrict my budget to 11 Lakhs, otherwise we will keep increasing our budget and finally buy Kushaq 1.5 TSI . I would as well save that money and use it for upgrading my Octavia whenever I am ready for it. For this reason Nexon is out too.
With all the good work Tata has done on safety, I really wanted to buy Tiago. But the car was underwhelming and dealership experience was pretty bad. Only safety is going for Tiago. Altroz doesn't have automatic.
There are so many cars in the market, yet finding one is difficult. Now after prioritizing all our requirements and considering this car will hardly ever see highways we are planning to finalize on Swift. It is fast, fun, sporty, looks good and unbeatable Maruti experience.
So this is the dilemma I have. Appreciate any feedback and suggestions.
Here;s what BHPian saisree had to say on the matter:
Your requirements points to the Jazz. It may not be that pouncing tiger, but, for sure is a ideal family workhorse. With all that space, non claustrophobic, reliable iVTec its worth the penny put on it. And, I feel Honda is not going out.
Here's what BHPian RavSam had to say on the matter:
With your shortlisting, I would say the Swift. Safety rating being the only concern.
Maruti Suzuki AMTs are refined with every iteration. So would not worry much about that.P.S. And since you don't want to stretch your budget, I would not recommend the Ertiga VXi AT.
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