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Hello people,
So we are finally into the market for buying a vehicle. Please do have a look at my parameters and suggest me one.
Current ride:
Our baby Alto LXI
Our family history:
If you turn back the pages every car we owned was an MPV: Omni for 10 years, Versa for 5 years, Eeco for 8 months and now alto(not in the segment but we bought to lessen our feul bills and A/C!) which has completed 2 and a half years,
Members in my family:
We are four in the family.
Then why on Earth an MPV/MUV not an hatchback?
My father has this weird feeling that more the price,more the no. of seats, moreover we take car to my mom's native and suddenly plan for a trip so that if we buy a car it should have at-least two seats behind the rear seat for love to travel together!
Budget
As of now we set our budget till 8, if better options are there, then it go till 9.
Petrol or Diesel?
Our annual usage in the Alto was 120000 kilometers which means 1000kms p.m, but the usage has become more and more for us so the need for diesel has raised in us.
How long will the car be kept?
Minimum of 5 years.
When do you plan to buy?
Currently we are short of funds, In the month of June (hopefully).
The Venture Story
So far(from when it was released), we had our heart over the Tata Venture which was an ideal replacement for our family with a diesel engine,
We went to book the car a month back too as we had the budget for it.
The final stage where in the SE rescued us by telling that the production has been stopped and the vehicle should be given rest for every 50 kms!
Though we did not believe him, we had some kind of disturbance that what will be the fate of the car if we owned and that too we owned Maruti(which means no niggles) for 4 times and it would be difficult if we move to Tata. And the serivce centre is concorde only which has a good service backup (none of the other dealers are good in Bangalore) and to reach concorde it will take more than an hour from my place which is also a bit disappointing.
If you see, i joined this forum when i was looking out for the venture details. Another drawback is the vehicle is BS-3 which means you cant register in the city and to be registered outside the city and not in your name, engine 70bhp only on books is sluggish for it weighs 2 tons and the power to weight ratio comes to 35 bhp which is equivalent to an Omni!
Come march 2012, maruti released the much awaited Ertiga only to say the price was at higher point (for us) of 10 lakhs and the interiors were not that roomy and my friends told Xylo was a better option there, so we left the car then and there itself.
Bolero/Xylo is too big for my dad to drive hence he's not interested to buy these.
The big news of Quanto being launched at September okay-ed us and we saw the vehicle in the showroom right after it was launched, test drove and my dad was disappointed for the vehicle was too huge for him to drive in a crowded street like ours, so i was a bit shaky because my dad rejected it.
On December 2012 we visited the Nissan Showroom to check out the Evalia, we liked to large extent and test drove it which was surprisingly super smooth
but the hindrance was that the base model starts from 10.50 lakhs which doesn't even have power windows! also the budget was on higher side so we think this is not the car for us.
Beat comes in between!
Some friend of my dad told that beat diesel costs less on maintenance and service interval is at 15k kms, he was overjoyed(me too thinking we could buy the car immediately) by then and we did a research and found it to be VFM,
but a sore point was that it was only a "5 seater" and the rear seat was not promising comfort, so dan! it was out of our list.
Used car Mela
Almost every Sunday we are visiting these dealerships and used car showrooms, saw a vista and was ready to shell out 4 lakhs, but something did not please us in the car so we rejected it.
The upcoming Chevy enjoy?
This is where the confusion starts, now GM has plans to launch it in April and price it below the Eritga is what being told, so now the Quanto and Enjoy has been two contenders for us,
I don't know for which one to go![[confused]](https://www.theautomotiveindia.com/forums/images/smilies/Confused.gif "Confused [confused]")
So we are finally into the market for buying a vehicle. Please do have a look at my parameters and suggest me one.
Current ride:
Our baby Alto LXI
Our family history:
If you turn back the pages every car we owned was an MPV: Omni for 10 years, Versa for 5 years, Eeco for 8 months and now alto(not in the segment but we bought to lessen our feul bills and A/C!) which has completed 2 and a half years,
Members in my family:
We are four in the family.
Then why on Earth an MPV/MUV not an hatchback?
My father has this weird feeling that more the price,more the no. of seats, moreover we take car to my mom's native and suddenly plan for a trip so that if we buy a car it should have at-least two seats behind the rear seat for love to travel together!
Budget
As of now we set our budget till 8, if better options are there, then it go till 9.
Petrol or Diesel?
Our annual usage in the Alto was 120000 kilometers which means 1000kms p.m, but the usage has become more and more for us so the need for diesel has raised in us.
How long will the car be kept?
Minimum of 5 years.
When do you plan to buy?
Currently we are short of funds, In the month of June (hopefully).
The Venture Story
So far(from when it was released), we had our heart over the Tata Venture which was an ideal replacement for our family with a diesel engine,
We went to book the car a month back too as we had the budget for it.
The final stage where in the SE rescued us by telling that the production has been stopped and the vehicle should be given rest for every 50 kms!
Though we did not believe him, we had some kind of disturbance that what will be the fate of the car if we owned and that too we owned Maruti(which means no niggles) for 4 times and it would be difficult if we move to Tata. And the serivce centre is concorde only which has a good service backup (none of the other dealers are good in Bangalore) and to reach concorde it will take more than an hour from my place which is also a bit disappointing.
If you see, i joined this forum when i was looking out for the venture details. Another drawback is the vehicle is BS-3 which means you cant register in the city and to be registered outside the city and not in your name, engine 70bhp only on books is sluggish for it weighs 2 tons and the power to weight ratio comes to 35 bhp which is equivalent to an Omni!
Come march 2012, maruti released the much awaited Ertiga only to say the price was at higher point (for us) of 10 lakhs and the interiors were not that roomy and my friends told Xylo was a better option there, so we left the car then and there itself.
Bolero/Xylo is too big for my dad to drive hence he's not interested to buy these.
The big news of Quanto being launched at September okay-ed us and we saw the vehicle in the showroom right after it was launched, test drove and my dad was disappointed for the vehicle was too huge for him to drive in a crowded street like ours, so i was a bit shaky because my dad rejected it.
On December 2012 we visited the Nissan Showroom to check out the Evalia, we liked to large extent and test drove it which was surprisingly super smooth
but the hindrance was that the base model starts from 10.50 lakhs which doesn't even have power windows! also the budget was on higher side so we think this is not the car for us.
Beat comes in between!
Some friend of my dad told that beat diesel costs less on maintenance and service interval is at 15k kms, he was overjoyed(me too thinking we could buy the car immediately) by then and we did a research and found it to be VFM,
but a sore point was that it was only a "5 seater" and the rear seat was not promising comfort, so dan! it was out of our list.
Used car Mela
Almost every Sunday we are visiting these dealerships and used car showrooms, saw a vista and was ready to shell out 4 lakhs, but something did not please us in the car so we rejected it.
The upcoming Chevy enjoy?
This is where the confusion starts, now GM has plans to launch it in April and price it below the Eritga is what being told, so now the Quanto and Enjoy has been two contenders for us,
I don't know for which one to go
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