Viru (where's Jai
?), you do have a point but I guess true off road entusiasts are never satisfied with a factory built off roader. Look at the Thar - Behram Sir did painstaking research with actual off road enthusiasts to understand what they want and when the Thar was launched, he was saddled with responses like "awwwwww no differential locks", "awwww independent front suspension", "awwwwww what about articulation", "awwww turbocharged engine", "awwwww common rail head", "awwwww axle ratio so low", "awwwwww no hard top", "awwwwww HT tyres", "awwwwww exhaust hanging so low", "awwwww plastic dashboard", "awwwwww awwwww awwwwwwwww..."
As I mentioned in my previous post, Maruti aint doing nothing for charity. They won't touch the Gypsy unless they see a cash cow. So the basic reason for not updating the Gypsy at this point in its product life cycle remains the tremendous cash outlay required to alter the Gypsy to make it more user friendly (R&D, CMVR, Homologation) vs. return on investment, which as per my understanding of finance, does not add up at all.
But, I have to say, for such an old design, it still looks so impossibly cool, no?