Rediscovering my Maruti Suzuki S-Cross Zeta: Quick trip to Manali

It was during this journey that I discovered what the Scross is meant to do.

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Hello everyone,
It has been really long since I have posted on this thread. Not that I have not been seeing some action but rather the paucity of productive thoughtful time. And the few events I wanted to tell about kept happening so soon that I could not catch up. In the last 6 months I have been through good, bad and good and so many things. So I will describe them individually.

First, in the month and of June I went to the place where a part of my soul still resides- Manali. Having worked there in mission hospital during my training years, I share a special bond with the place and know it inside out. No trail I haven’t walked, no nook I have not explored and yet still yearn to be there again.

There are a lot of threads describing this beautiful place and many travelogues too. So I will keep it short and sweet.
I started from Jalandhar in Punjab at 4 in the morning, at 5.30 am I was at Ropar.
The stretch starting from the Baloh toll to Sundernagar has a very strictly enforced speed limit of 60 kmph with speed cameras every 500 metres. But the beauty is that the old Swarghat- Bilaspur section is bypassed. It was very windy and time consuming section. You can imagine that I was at Sundernagar at 7.15 am.
Such beautiful is the highway that I was at Kullu by 9 am where i took my first break. Had breakfast as there are many roadside restaurants with good views and then reached Manali by 10.30. All in all an excellent trip.

It was during this journey that I discovered what the Scross is meant to do. Corner. And corners it well without unsettling or losing its composure a bit. I did not drive fast- never did i cross 90 kmph during the entire trip. But still due to early morning, empty roads and excellent highways- i covered nearly 350 kms in 6 hours. Not bad by any means. The car drove beautifully with my family asleep more than half the way. Meant for comfortable non stop cruising. Can be driven fast but it prefers not to. It makes you constantly aware of how many kmph one is above 110. 95-100 is the sweet spot for efficiency and speed. And the car delivered excellent fuel efficiency of around 15.99 kmpl. Perhaps sedate driving while ascending and downhill return journey helped. It is a very well Engineered product. All nooks and corners and crevices are very well thought of and carefully executed. Good utility in the cabin all around.

Good car this is.
I will let the pictures do the talking.
Cheers.

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