I had done study about the cars available for purchase in Maharashtra. I have taken a ride in almost all of them, (Off the point, but I hate Santro, my feets get cramped within 5 minutes, also the space is so less. Getz was not introduced when I made the purchase.) and then finally set the criteria of two things:
1) Service center / spare parts availability and
2) driving pleasure . I had narrowed down to Palio but then Indica beat Palio in terms of item 1.
Ohh yes about the car. If you think you are judging well the car by just external look, thing again, you are grossly mistaken... you havenot really seen it then. The space is so lush and its totallly different experience inside the car.
Everything that I got along, the AC, sitting arrangement, boot space... talking comfortwise and then its pickup, speed is great, I have been till 130 Kmph but did not go beyond that cause I didnt have that kind of tyres on the car. (If you guys wanna push the speed limit then dont bother about the engine, bother about the tyre make them tubeless. )
About taking care, I am inherently a care taking guy and hence always monitor all the fluid levels in the car (including battery) and hence my first servicing resulted in Rs. 0. Since I didnt even cover 5000 km, may be that is the reason.
All the controls in the car are like butter very easy to manouvre.