My new Zen Estilo Vxi (DBrown) with fully loaded (4.5L) landed on road in October mid from kalyani motors Bangalore after review and research in the internet, mainly reference taken from Carwale and MS. Thanks for both.
My main constrains were while selecting the car, budget, leg space (my height 5’10”), Stylish, less maintenance and as usual mileage.
I compared price, features, comfortness, maintenance and mileage with Hyundai (santro and i10) , GM(spark and beat) and Tata cars I felt Estilo is good bet.
My opinion about car performance is little early, still I am summarizing here about car.
+ve.
Style, cost effective, interior(with color combination), electrically adjustable mirrors, defroger, back windshield wiper, fog lamps, boot space, head room space, control, AC(effectiveness), mileage and road view from driver seat.
-ve.
Pickup at ups with AC and incomplete right corner view from driver seat.
Estilo is my first car; I didn’t have much driving experience. I drove santro and alto while learning and some time with my friend’s car. Before booking the car I took test drive, I impressed with handling, smooth movement on road and inside space. In my opinion co-driver/back passenger can give better feedback then driver about comfortless of the car. My parents were very happy about seating comfort and look then I booked a car.
Now I completed 1100 km, I learnt driving too with this car. As a fresh driver I didn’t faced any problem. It gives me around 18 kmpl with 100% AC (speed between 60 and 80) as instructed by Maruthi till first service. I traveled around 75% on highway and 25% on city with ups and down. I didn’t expect this mileage in new car. As a new driver I faced little problem while operating gears (May I have to improve on shifting the gears).
I will share future experience later.
Thanks to you all and carwale & MS.