Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Feast your eyes on my latest sweetheart



So this is here, meri zindagi ki pahli car! Yes it is a Swift VXi (Azure Grey Color). was planning for the same since the last one year, did an extensive survey and market research on all the options that are available with Maruti as well as other brands. So here goes my experience:

Chevorlet Aveo UV-A
This car was about to get the honor of being my first car, but then I test drove it and found it to be pathetic, some of my observations
*bad build quality as compared to Hyundai Getz and Swift
*It had a 1.1 Litre engine, now that is the exact capacity of Santro's engine, no need to pay Rs 5 lac for a 1.1 Lt engine
* The body weight of the car is qyuite high due to which it suffers on pickup
*Didnt have any great mileage (even with a 1.1 Lt engine)

Zen Estillo
I considered this as well but this one never came close to that place, firstly it looks like an autorickshaw to me, and has an engine capacity of 1000cc so didnt find it worth the money, looks like a matiz to me!

Hyundai Getz
Good car, spacious, good pickup and has a 1.3 Lt engine but it suffers a lot on the mileage , Nitin has it so I know the biggest disadvantage of this car, but then too this one came quite close to that honorable place

Tata Indica
Good car, value for money, the petrol version has a good pickup and is fuel efficient too, but Dad already owns one so there is no point going for an Indica again.

Swift
I didn't used to like the shape of this car a lot, till the day I drove it, man this is an awesome piece of machine in 4.9 Lacs on road, awesome build quality, a tried and tested 1.3 Lt engine (the engine is Esteem's engine) so you don't have to worry about the performance of the engine. Awesome pickup, okish mileage and this car falls in the B+ Segment

So it is here now......keep watching this blog for more reviews

Song in Car: O meri Jaan
Film: Life in a....Metro

8 comments:

Kanupriya said...

Congrats! :)
when did u get it?

Shantanu said...

@Kanu
Thanx! got it on Friday :-)

Unknown said...

hey shant ! great man.
jab naukari milegi to kya hoga..... adan pe suit hoga,paon me boot hoga, hatho me wheel hoga ! so u got the wheel of ur car. sachi colg time se ab tak u hav grown tremendously well:)

Shantanu said...

@Shikha
hehehehehe Thnx

"badan pe suit hoga... paon main boot hoga....aur hathon main gori ka haanth...." oops par yaar ye gori ka haanth waala criteria abhi poora nahi hua :P

Unknown said...

pehle jab mota tha tab to chance kam tha. par ab to.....try somewhere :)

Shantanu said...

@Shikha
kYa try yaar... hum aise hi achhe hain, tujhe dikhayi na maine apni latest sweetheart ki photo... ab kuchh din sirf yehi :P

Metallica bhakt! said...

nice colour n finish!!i dunno why but swift reminds me of the beatle car! some faint resemblance!

Shantanu said...

@metallica Bhakt!

Thnx!
Yeah its a cute car, with a cute / sporty shape!