The airbag should deploy whether you are wearing your seat belt or not.The purpose of the air bag is to deploy upon impact. The safety belt has the puropse of restraining the driver and passenger in the event of a collision. But the air bag does not deploy based on the belt.

Ok. I’m alarmed by the kind of claims/statements these maruti salesmen make to the customers!

Gourish, Sales men are the last people you should trust while making a decision. If they want to push their stock they will say anything to do that.

Not sure of Maruti, but there are modern cars, which behave this way. Seatbelt indicates the car, that someone is actually sitting on the seat, who needs to be protected during a crash. It tells the car that, the weight on the car seat, is actually a person and not dead-weight (like luggage or books etc).

One of the salesman in bimal maruti showroom told me that the alloy wheels in the Z variant are lighter in weight and hence it would have more mileage due to efficient pulling of the lighter wheels!

And another salesman in another maruti showroom told that the Z variant’s mileage is lesser by 1 or 1.5 km from the V/L variants due to the increased overall weight of the car. I thought it should be due to the wider tyres. So wanted to discuss this here and confirm. Thanks for your feedback Babychen.

Gourish, looks like Sales men are taking you for a ride . With wider tyres as Babychen Mathew
said there will be a difference but not very noticeable. Its always better to go with wider tyres because safety of is utmost importance. Also the salesmen is right on the alloys part as alloys are light weight you get better mileage but then again it…[Read more]

So, to summarize, the mileage in the Z variant gets decreased due to wider tyres but that is evened out by the increased mileage due to efficient pulling of the lighter alloy wheels. Hence the mileage of Z variant remains same as the V/L variant – at least in case of swift. Is that right?

Gourish, approximately yes…. and pls stop looking for absolute answers there are none. Cars of the same make and model tend to behave different and depends how they are driven. You can check the clutch of the same car (used) and see the difference for yourself

In reality the engine has to pull the whole body weight of the car and not just the wheels. hence it is the overall weight of a car that matters and not just the wheel weight, when considering for mileage. I will definitely say the V/L variant has a slight advantage in mileage over the Z variant (which has wider tyres and hence more friction). It…[Read more]

wait for some time & go for wagon r as it is about to come in a refreshed avatar…..

Hi experts, please suggest me whether I should go for a WagonR vxi or an i10 Sportz. My driving would be about 200km in city and 800km in highways in a month. How does the WagonR’s 3 pot engine fare on highways? I’d be glad to cruise at 100-120 kmph speeds in highways. I’ve test driven both these cars but not in high speeds. In that I found the…[Read more]

Thanks Joy. Do you know the mileage of these cars (including Ritz) in city and highway? supposing I will drive them smoothly (maintaining right speeds at right rpms and max 60 kmph in cities and 80-100 kmph in highways) and no abrupt braking or abrupt pickup. Or should I rather post this query separately in each of these cars’ threads for getting…[Read more]

Thanks Shreyans. Wow, it is quite a feat doing Mumbai-Delhi trip in a WagonR. I just checked it’s about 1400 kms one way! Was that in old WagonR (which has 1.1L 4 cylinder engine) or the new one (1L 3 cylinder engine)? After a lot of deliberation, finally I’ll be booking a car tomorrow. For now, it’ll be among WagonR vxi, i10 Sportz and Ritz vxi abs/zxi.

WagonR for Mileage

Just wanted to update this post that I finally gave into swift vxi. I did not go for wagonR because my dad already owns one. And in 1.2L engine, I thought swift vxi would make more sense than ritz or i10 considering the popularity and overall good feedbacks i read about it. It will be delivered in feb 1st week. I test drove brio as well. It is…[Read more]

No, none. In fact, I’m going to get the 2013 model which is Rs 10K more after the price hike

the front gives u the look like a Baby-Chevrolet Cruze,
the engine is quicker, 0-100 in 14.6 secs ( the market leader is half a sec behind)
three years of chevrolet promise, meaning zero maintenance cost for 3 yrs
diesel ARAI rating of 22.1, petrol ARAI of 18.3
what else is required to be said

@ Pragya: I am usually a conservative buyer….why don’t you wait for some feedback on the car to surface? People who bought UVA previous generation are not too happy!! resale value i am sure is low for the previous gen. I would suggest you wait and then purchase. You have a lot of options in the same bracket…why not explore them? just a thought.

I found that the diesel Sail UVA is very value for money ON PAPER esp for the mid variant which comes with driver airbag, ABS and music player with Bluetooth and USB and it’s on road price in Bangalore is 7.6 lakhs. I test drove this vehicle some days back. And I even sat at back while it was driven. What I liked is the interior ergonomics and…[Read more]

I went to the showroom again to confirm about the speaker quality and under-thigh support at the rear. It seems the salesman had previously turned on the speaker which was in poor setting (high treble). This time I checked the player myself by putting on the FM radio. The speaker sound quality was not bad. It sounded great esp at the front but the…[Read more]

When I say the leg room is great at the rear seat, i am actually referring to the knee room which is in abundance. There is not much space to stretch our legs due to the elevated area under the front seats. This site should allow us to correct anything in our own posts, at a later time as well.

From the vehicles you have short listed I suggest you go with the figo because its good and stable on the highways,has safety features too good Its a value for money vehicle . It has decent space too when compared to beat but it doesnt win when compared to vista but the bad thing about Tata vista is the company. For long term reliability Tata…[Read more]

If u are looking for safety with ABS & EBD, u can go for Etios Liva Gd as it is very good to drive in city with negligible turbo-lag.

Babychen, Ritz vdi with ABS costs 7,35,751.00 OTS in Bangalore. and with current offers, Vista VX will come to 6,75,000 + the dealer offered me seat covers, rear parking sensor, and mats (not sure how much these additional stuff cost).
The other problem with Ritz is lighter steering. or do you think, i should wait for an yaer, increase my budget…[Read more]

Presently, with all offers and discounts offered by Fiat, Punto Dynamic will cost you around 6.85L onroad. It has ABS and Loads of other features! check it out!

Punto dynamic diesel costs 7.8 lakhs in Bangalore

^ That’s hideous, please visit a showroom and ask them to tell you about the benefits offered in Absolute edition.
i have one quotation in digital format, offered by Cargo motors A’bad, as a reference you can have it from me via email.

You are right. Now they are offering free insurance and some discounts which brings the dynamic to almost 7.4L in a town where I enquired in Karnataka.