Hi . i’m also planning to buy my first car, I finalized swift but the confusion is to go for Ldi or Lxi, diesel version giving good mileage guys claiming from 15km minimum to 20km max where as petrol is 10km min - 13km max, I may not use the car everyday and mostly will take out on weekends , thinking in future the petrol price may go up and probably the usage will increase , please suggest which one should I go for, I;m planing to own this for minimum 5 years.
so initially I planed to take the high end model of Alto ie Lxi M. Two
reasons for Alto 1. I was new for car driving 2. Budget of 3 Lacs. It
was costing me around 3.17 Lacs. I even had my car training in the same
car. After a months training, I found many drawbacks in Alto Lxi (M).
Like leg space, pick up, AC etc...Now this was my choice as I was new
for car driving. But then I decided, once I will be perfect then I will
start looking for a high end car..so why not now. Then started my
research on cars..increased my budget to 4 lacs.
Now the options left for me were in
1. Maruti Alto, Estilo, Wagonr 2. Hyundai Santro, i10 3. Chevrolet Spark 4. Tata’s Indica...
Alto : Rejected as already mentioned above. Estilo : Mainly shape and avail colors, space. Wagonr : mainly looks
Santro : Existing owners suggested to go for i10 and also old model.
i10 : Era was costing 4.2 lacs. Seats were not that appealing. Space
was almost like Alto. Interms of height more comapred to
Alto. Gear location was good. Felt i10 to very light.
Chevrolet Spark: Maintainance, Look and space was not appealing.
Indica : Reason we all know.
Hence dropped all above cars.
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