FIAT ASS has improved a lot, talk with the car owners directly.
Resale value is not a big problem as Linea usually comes with good discounts. So the loss due to resale value is compensated on day one of the ownership itself.
Else you can look for sparingly used Linea just like your earlier Vento so as to get the resale value benefit.
But,their A.S.S is far away from our home.We have Maruti,Hyundai,Toyota(gonna give our Innova for 85000 Kms service),Honda,VW(where we used to give our Vento for servicing since first service),Mahindra,Tata within 10 Kms radius from my home.In that,we have 2-3 Maruti workshops,1-2 Hyundai workshops,1 Toyota workshop,1 Honda workshop,1 Mahindra workshop and Tata workshop.Even we have 2 Nissan workshops too and 1 Renault workshop.Skoda is bit far away from home and even we have 1 Ford workshop near my brother's house.
BTW,my dad got regretted for selling the Vento as he found it is one of the best cars he had driven in his 2 decades of driving.Even my mom also missing Vento.But,I was happy that we sold our Vento due to its future.
Now,Creta owners themselves suggesting us not to go for Creta as we are people of 3 and we have Innova too for other uses.So, they,including my parents,felt that maintaining 2 big cars would be an issue for us.
My close acquaintance(almost we will be like a family member most of the time),who booked a Creta Diesel AT,also suggesting us to look at Ciaz itself as we have an Innova and maintaining 2 bigger ones would be an issue.Remember,they have Innova and City Diesel too but buying Creta by not replacing any of their cars.They even considered Jazz CVT and Ciaz AT but being Petrols,they had ruled it out and booked a Creta AT.They are getting it in 3-4 days as there is fight going on due to Jallikattu issue in Chennai.They might get the car this week before he leaves to Delhi(where he studies law and he came to Hyd due to holidays given by their college).The colour he booked is White.Even our well known driver,who is with us since more than 15 years,is also suggesting dad to go for Ciaz itself.Even my cousin,who owns Celerio AMT,also said to have a look at Ciaz as his uncle owns one 2014 Ciaz ZDI and his aunt owns a 2015 Ciaz VXI+ and my mom's cousin,who owns a Dzire VXI and had driven our Vento extensively,also said to go for Ciaz.Remember,he is Maruti lover and always suggests to go for Maruti car itself and his dad has 2012 Swift VDI,which has run more than 1,40,000 Kms and still drives good and used to have an old Maruti 800 and now planning to get a Zest or Ameo as a replacement of Swift.But,I want a car,which should have features and it should satisfy me completely in terms of features,performance and looks.Which car will satisfy me completely as I should not get bored with it in future?
Dad's another friend also sold his 2012 Skoda Rapid few days after we sold our Vento.His Rapid also used to give issues and one night,when we were going for a function in this car,the car suddenly got stopped at around 9:30PM on the middle of the road and we had to push the car to get started but still refused to start and had parked somewhere and called another driver to pick us and go to the venue.Hearing his horror experience with Skoda,decided that Skoda will not be our next car.On that day itself,my dad had suggested him to get a Ciaz due to reliability and FE.But,now he had decided that he will be booking a Creta and I think he booked a Creta.BTW,his Rapid had run a shade above 1,30,000 Kms before he sold off his car.
BTW,5 people including Honda City guy in our circle bought Cretas and my college buddy is also getting his Creta by this week and 3 of my dad's friends has bought S-Cross too.But,our member of our company management has bought Ciaz ZDI+SHVS few months ago and has run more than 30,000 Kms as his daily running is a shade above 200 Kms.Based on that experience itself,our known driver is also suggesting to go for Ciaz .But,dad wanted a car,which should be different from other cars which his friends own.But,I'm convincing him hard to buy a Creta only.Hope,Creta would be our new car if works well or else,Ciaz or City would be entering into our garage.Dad said,if its Creta,he would be going for 1.4 Diesel as it is VFM and gives good FE or 1.6 SX CRDI(Rs.15,00,000 one) and if it is Ciaz,we will go for ZDI+ as it is fully loaded and within our budget and colour would be Brown or Grey or Black.
