I had bought Matiz in 1999 and sold it in 2005. Then on I have uopgraded to Big Car segment.
However still remeber the excellent car I Had. For the 6 year it was with me never ever it failed. I used to go for long trips ( about 500 Km a day) still never ever it failed even once. The front bonnet was geting opeened only during servicing. So once so happend that the bonnet openeing cable got stuck and had to be changed during servicing. My servicing engg told me that atleast once in a month you should open the bonnet and just have a look in the engine. This goes on to say the reliability of the car ( truly shut it and forget it performance).
Not sure why any other company is not planning restart this excellent car. When I se the competetion ( which Matiz had) like Santro, Zen, Wagon R etc.... every other car looks silly in front of Matiz.
I currently do not own this but still feel so much passionate about it that thought of writing few words about this wonderfull and magnificent car.
I hope the production is restarted again by some company ( may be GM) so that I can gift this to my kids when they grow up.