One of the most refreshing designs from Maruti after a long time. Beautiful and value for money. However, A new trend has started automotive sales.
For example with Nexa cars and many others, while booking the only thing you get is a credit card slip and no booking letter confirming your booking and the cost at which car is booked, it is later followed by an SMS giving you your booking number and adv paid, this gives the company to charge a higher cost at the time of delivery.
Case in point is the SCross which is a per reports selling at upwards of two lacs in discount owing to it having lost out on value as an SUV and high cost as a hatch. The BALENO seems to be cross subsidising because it is being delivered at higher price than that when it was booked, probably to take a little shock out of the loss made by SCross. As the demand for Baleno is excessive.
After one month of using the car now I am clear why maruti did not give a test drive before purchase.it is a very underpowered car for city driving. Always disappoints when you need instant pick up. Even a Rick gets an advantage over it. The clutch is very hard for a petrol car.
The moment you put the car on second from the first gear the car gets sluggish the way old era diesel cars used to. ( The crdi ones will go round n around around baleno delta and still remain ahead) .
But it is pleasurable on highways though you cannot still take on anyone there . Coupled with the ARROGANCE OF POSITIONING, this time that maruti employed, by being extremely unyielding while selling it, has somewhere broken the connection it had with repeat customers. The belonging feeling for the brand has been successfully broken by the Nexa ARROGANCE .