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Dear All,
First up, wish you all happy Dasara & Durga Pooja greetings !
It will be my endevour to cover all aspects of Ertiga through seriese of reviews posts that shall help fellow team members.
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The search:
I have my lovely Zen 2002 model and have been contemplating of changing the vehicle for some time now since January this year. The requirement was to go for Sedan or medium sized SUV. In between heard Mini Innova is coming but later realized its another refurbished avatar of Innova. I also did go through the second hand market to and took TD of Chevy Royale which had done 50K and the dealer was quoting 7L while the other one tested was Innova which had done 70K and was quoting 10L. So, decided not to ever step into second hand car showrooms.
While all the above things were happening, I happened to see Ertiga being discussed in TAI and other forums and I collected more information and it was almost an instance decision to go for it.
The Ertiga TD:
After its launch, contacted so many dealers for TD but couldn’t do it as vehicles were not available and eventually after 4 weeks of follow-up took the TD of the Ertiga ZDI. It was stark disappointment when I drove the Ertiga for the first time after driving Petrol Zen for many years. The lag was so much that feared someone would hit me while changing the lanes or joining the intersections of the road. The initial lag really disappointed me the most. One on NICE road highway, I was cruising at 130-140Kmps effortlessly and we were only 3 people on the TD vehicle. I decided NOT to go ahead with Ertiga though the entire package was appealing.
The Decision Making:
The main criterion was as below with weighted Average:
Now, that I had decided that I should go for Ertiga, next decision making was regarding whether I should go for ZDI or ZXI. Again I took refuge to calculations and the ZDI made sense based on the parameters below:
Attaching the Calculator XLS and this can be used to compare any two models of vehicle. You will just need to input the values in green colored grids and you will have computation and you can identify the break even period.
So, based on this my decision making became easier to go ahead with ZDI as I will not change my car within next 6-7 years.
First up, wish you all happy Dasara & Durga Pooja greetings !
It will be my endevour to cover all aspects of Ertiga through seriese of reviews posts that shall help fellow team members.
----------------------------------------------
The search:
I have my lovely Zen 2002 model and have been contemplating of changing the vehicle for some time now since January this year. The requirement was to go for Sedan or medium sized SUV. In between heard Mini Innova is coming but later realized its another refurbished avatar of Innova. I also did go through the second hand market to and took TD of Chevy Royale which had done 50K and the dealer was quoting 7L while the other one tested was Innova which had done 70K and was quoting 10L. So, decided not to ever step into second hand car showrooms.
While all the above things were happening, I happened to see Ertiga being discussed in TAI and other forums and I collected more information and it was almost an instance decision to go for it.
The Ertiga TD:
After its launch, contacted so many dealers for TD but couldn’t do it as vehicles were not available and eventually after 4 weeks of follow-up took the TD of the Ertiga ZDI. It was stark disappointment when I drove the Ertiga for the first time after driving Petrol Zen for many years. The lag was so much that feared someone would hit me while changing the lanes or joining the intersections of the road. The initial lag really disappointed me the most. One on NICE road highway, I was cruising at 130-140Kmps effortlessly and we were only 3 people on the TD vehicle. I decided NOT to go ahead with Ertiga though the entire package was appealing.
The Decision Making:
The main criterion was as below with weighted Average:
Now, that I had decided that I should go for Ertiga, next decision making was regarding whether I should go for ZDI or ZXI. Again I took refuge to calculations and the ZDI made sense based on the parameters below:
Attaching the Calculator XLS and this can be used to compare any two models of vehicle. You will just need to input the values in green colored grids and you will have computation and you can identify the break even period.
So, based on this my decision making became easier to go ahead with ZDI as I will not change my car within next 6-7 years.
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