Commented on gvurgese's review

The spare wheel (''stepney'') is an old concept not yet extinct in India. With modern tubeless tyres, a spare wheel is a totally useless appendage that adds to (i) vehicle cost and (ii) fuel cost due to your having to carry a weight for the lifetime of the car. I suggest that you sell the spare read more...

Commented on linkinparkfan's review

Can't understand if it's a review of Tata Sky or of your dad or of Bravia.

Commented on netbhoot's review

What about billing? What about DNS servers? Where are the details? Incidentally, if you're technically oriented, you can read the white paper on ADSL2+ technologies available for download at http://www.dslprime.com/a/adsl21.pdf. To a common man or woman, TriBand means that three ('Tri') additional s read more...

Commented on netbhoot's review

'netbhoot' has just vented his frustration or anger over MTNL, but has not justified enough.

Commented on krishnanrr's review

Enjoyed reading your review, Kris. Clearly, you've fallen in love! Baleno is for connoisseurs like you. This car is a classic gem. Unfortunately, the current generation values popular specs over enduring. Baleno is a horse of battle as much as it is a horse for ballet. I too am a proud owner for two read more...

Commented on standon05's review

Sudhir, How can you disown this classic because Maruti (is reported to) does? The 'new' Baleno (if at all Maruti calls its SX4 as one) is a totally different breed. In any case, sacrificing a Baleno for a City is like giving up a Lippizzaner for a Hanoverian... Please don't!

Commented on chaitanyakunthe's review

Chaitanya, Your review is wonderful. This car reflects the personality of the owner... Obviously you're a no-nonsense, no-hype person yourself. After a good deal of research, I decided in favour of Baleno VXi about 1½ years back from Vitesse and I haven't regretted one moment till date. The pe read more...

Commented on VIJITH.J's review

If the language (spellings included) used by VIJITH's 'review' is any indication of his driving style, I'm impressed by Baleno's quality since only the car's steering is shaking. Reading this 'review' makes my entire body shake...!

Commented on vbhoj74's review

Hey Bhoj, Your review is excellently written in simple, lucid style. I found it very useful. My daughter and I have SE K300i models so I bought a DCU-11 USB data cable (price: Rs 1,290) to download pictures, videos and music to our home PC. Alas, I could not make it work with SE's File Manager (d read more...

Followed @thedevil_himself

Commented on thedevil_himself's review

I like your updates, properly dated, software versions style! Reviews are generally very positive or very negative to start with, but honest documentation of experience as you go along is what adds true value to a review! Keep it up!!

Commented on thedevil_himself's review

Congrats on your new purchase... Your experience with Baleno will progressively get better! Your 'Speedometer cable disconnection' and 'pinhole in stepney' point to only one suspicion... You have been taken for a ride by your dealer who must have disconnected the cable and taken your 'new' baby f read more...

Followed @aashim

Commented on dkittu's review

No new or useful info. Moreover, fuel efficiency report does not appear to be credible.

Commented on own review

Arun, See specs on Maruti Baleno web site here: http://www.marutibaleno.com/specsequip.asp. Climate Control and MP3 player are officially listed...

Commented on own review

Thanks, Arun, for your comments on my review... and wishing you tortuous days ahead till Johnny bride comes home! Well, if review on my Baleno VXi (August version) has made you sit up, wait till you experience the 'new' Baleno VXi (introduced in October)-- it'll make you stand up! The 'new' Ba read more...

Commented on cerk's review

Hey cerk, Nice, detailed review... Thanks! Two Questions... (a) What do you mean turning better than a Zen? Zen has a 4.9m turning radius and Optra has 5.2m. (b) A friend complained (during Mumbai's infamous 26/7) that Optra has a low air intake manifold, hence the engine oil gets contamina read more...

Commented on finetuning's review

Great speed... getting 27 kilobytes per sec download, probably because I'm about 1.5 k.m. from Exchange (Mulund-West). Setup was a breeze... just plug & play! Congrats to MTNL, our Indian Schumi, for bringing the hottest new tech simultaneously with countries like Australia and U.K. My advice read more...