Your requirement is all about performance. Seating comfort is limited to the 1st row. If so, why even think of lugging around a boot, which you will in most probability never use. The Swift and Palio1.6 seem to be good choices for you. But, you have ruled out Fiat cars. Leaves you with the Swift (the Getz would also be worth checking out).
If you insist on sedans, the VTec, Verna CRDi etc will be out of your budget of 7lacs. I am not very sure, but I think the Fiesta1.6 should come in 7lacs. If so, a good option for you. Other than this, you have the non-Vtec NHC, Fiesta1.4, etc, which IMO will not give you the performance you seek. At much less than 7L, you could get a Baleno Vxi, which would give you pretty good performance, coupled with a good mileage. Cons are model is in market for sometime now + rear looks are not that good + bad interiors.
I would suggest testdrive all the options that fall in your budget and make a decision. And with your monthly driving of more than 1500kms, doesn't diesel make more sense? More so, since you do not plan to sell the car for some time.
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Last edited by supremeBaleno : 12th October 2006 at 14:51.
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