I would suggest you to go with any nationalised bank. Banks like SBI and SBT are giving car loans without much hassles.
I bought Swift Vxi in september 06 and availed car loan from SBT. I got the loan for an interest rate of 9.25% for 5 years and EMI per lack is Rs.2088/-. I got 90% of the on-road price as loan.This offer was way..way better than those offered from CityBank, ICICI, HDFC etc. Corporation Bank gave me some good offer almost matching SBT, but by that time had finalised the deal.There were no hidden costs involved with SBT and they are not charging for pre-closure/pre-payment. Processing fee they took was Rs.2465/- and stamp paper charges were Rs.360/-, which was arranged by the bank itself. I opened a SB account with the bank and gave an auto-debit instruction against the EMI to be paid every month. Paper works were much simple ( I had all the papers ready with me) and the entire process took 5 days. The 5th day post lunch, car got delivered.
I bought the car from Pratham Motors and they could give me the best offer amongst the 5 dealers in Bangalore. Loan was arranged by the in-house loan guy of the showroom and I had to visit the bank just once to sign the papers.
I was also contemplating on getting the bank payout - dicount on the loan amount taken. I thought it was always useful to get a discount while purchasing,eventhough almost the equal amount will be added to the EMI and will be adjusted across the entire tenure. However, once I got the finance of 90% of the on-road price, I dropped the plan.
As far as I know, at present Maruti itself is giving first year insurance free for Swift along with basic accessories like mudflap, rubber mats etc. So, you can always consider these as "default" offers coming with the car. Now, getting any additional offers / discounts from the dealer is something different. For this, you need to bargain hard with them. You will always have an edge over them considering the fact that in Bangalore there are 5 dealers ( I think now there are 6, not sure though!) and there is a good competition among them. Offers I got were, lLumar sunfilm for the car (with single piece on the rear) from the dealer with 2 years warrenty , 20k discount from Maruti, 5k discount as corporate offer and basic acessories like mudflap, mats, car perfume and one ganesha idol
Now, its your call to compare various offers and do the mathematics..
All the vesy best! |