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Originally Posted by swiftvxi06 The same car was rebadged and sold as Opel Agila in European markets and as Vauxhall Agila in UK.
Neither Suzuki nor MSIL now a days design cars which makes them stand out from the rest |
Thank You, @swiftvxi06. The old WagonR and the Ritz being rebadged Agilas is news to me.
On the design part, I think MSIL understood that their designs weren't catchy like Hyundais and Hondas, and so decided to design better looking ones, starting with the Ciaz, then Brezza, even the 2017Dzire.
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Originally Posted by RaceHorse This was the first car which I booked as a Taxi, to ferry me from Pune to Mumbai , the guy at the wheel was driving it madly in a pot pouring rain, but the car was stable at speeds above 100kmph.
Immediately after returning to my home town, first thing we did was to exchange our old Santro and book Ritz Vdi. It served us for 10years without any issue. |
Wow, @RaceHorse. This is the first time I've seen someone make a purchase decision based on one helluva ride. On another note, a ride like what you had in pouring rain would give a better perspective than a short TD in normal weather.
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Originally Posted by amitayu had a Ritz VXI from 2012-2019; truly multi-purpose in nature |
Thank You, @amitayu. The Ritz was indeed a multipurpose car.
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Originally Posted by shrinz.vivek Ritz VDI was my 2nd car after a bare bones Santro (Non A/C manual steering). We were able to accommodate 5 big bags with 10days luggage for 5 adults on our south India trip. Some skillful packing and compact military supply bags did the trick perhaps.It ran on factory clutch till 120k kms |
Thank You, @shrinz.vivek. Stock clutch till 120k and maybe longer is again, a record. Agree with your views on boot adequacy. It is deep, has the 60:40 capability too, and yes, in compact boots, skilful packing helps.
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Originally Posted by asbshyam the Polarizing rear, I guess Maruti never thought of this as a problem.can' find a used automatic Ritz in Chennai right now |
Thank You, @asbshyam. I feel since Marutis were exporting this car, they didn't do much to address domestic requirements of design changes.
On the Ritz AT, it's extremely tough to find one. But be warned that the FE will be rather low. The A-Star AT returns only 10-10.5kmpl in the city, but the gear box is trouble free.
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Originally Posted by kkunal.shah Well Ritz vxi was my first car, kept it for 12 years & 1.5Lac kms |
Thank You, @kkunal.shah. Well used car, I'd say, and one of those few petrol hatches that I've seen with such a high odo reading.
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Originally Posted by ajay.singh.83 exchanged my 2007 Swift ZXi, after 1.23lac kms, with the last batch of Ritz ZXi manufactured in Jan 2016 |
Joy of life indeed, @ajay.singh.83. your car looks best without any of the wrap, and the LED fogs look class.
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Originally Posted by headbanger The success of Ritz lies in finding the number of unsatisfied customers. I have found none till date of such folks; have a 10 year old Vxi model that has run around 1.7L I have spent approx 50paisa per km for my Ritz till date for services |
Thank You for those stats, @headbanger; another 1.5 lac plus example. The maintenance cost per km is a revelation. I however calculate my costs including every penny that I've spent - on fuel, maintenance, insurance and so on. The numbers then begin to give heart attacks.
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Originally Posted by landcruiser123 Two neighbors who owned the car - a diesel (with 1.3 lakhs km in 2017) and petrol (with 1.1 lakhs km in 2017) never had a single rattle despite driving on notorious Bangalore roads.
If I needed a cheap city runabout today, I'd snap up a Ritz with a jiffy - love the tall boy design and I'm one of the few who like the boot. |
There you go, @landcruiser123. Two more cars over 1 lac kms that bore the brunt of Indian roads.
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Originally Posted by asit.kulkarni93 I find this ignis equally good. Ritz was practical, well built and most importantly a proper family hatchback. |
Thank You, @asit.kulkarni93. I am sure if you'd picked up the Ritz ZDi, you'd have still been using that. As you said, it's a very practical family hatchback. When my friend in Mumbai was examining options a few months ago, he came across a 2010 Ritz ZXi that had done just 10,000km. But the car demanded a few jobs, so he wasn't confident of going ahead. Plus the car was 11.
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Originally Posted by condor The Ritz, like the A-Star was a competent car from the Maruti stable, as with the S-Cross.
Hope your friend's Ritz is back to it's normal self. |
Thank You, @condor. I think the threesome you've just mentioned are competent because they're built for overseas. Right?
Yes,
Little Red Riding Hood is going fine.
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Originally Posted by srvm Anyway, I ended up buying a new Zest in 2016.
Last week, my neighbor sold his 9 year old Ritz Vxi (running perfectly fine) saying that he is upgrading to a new car. Few days back, I saw a new current gen Swift in his parking lot |
Thank You @srvm. The Zest is my favourite car from the Tata stable after the Safari Storme. I'd ridden in a Zest cab just once, in 2017, and was bowled by its solid build, great back seat and overall NVH.
With most cars, the itch to upgrade sets in, and 9 is a good life to let go of a car, but yes, one will always yearn to see one's old faithful car a few months after one has parted with it. Reason - the new one never touches one's heart as much.