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Senior - BHPian Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: HR 51/HR 29
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Highlights how good the Hexa's 4x4 system is and how badly they blundered by not offering a 4x4 AT variant. They would have had a ready customer in me. Hexa AT 4x4 on proper all terrain tires with the torque multiplication of the slushbox can be really potent. | |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() | ![]() Had a chance to drive the Top end 4X4 version of the Tata Hexa yesterday. Drove in stop go traffic and some bad roads. Here are my observations. +ves. 1. Good ride quality on bad roads 2. No rattles 3. Good engine power. Negligible turbo lag and responsive engine -ves 1. Cabin quality is not great. It's not as great as it looks in pics. The wiper control stalk on the test drive vehicle was broken and held with insulation tape. The 12V socket in front was broken 2. Very few storage spaces in the cabin. Door pockets are small. Even glove boxes are small 3. Gear shift is very notchy. The gear lever is too far from driver. Very difficult to do quick gear shifts. The clutch has long travel but is light. 4. The foot well is very narrow. No dead pedal. Also no space to rest the left leg. I found this to be very uncomfortable. 5. The hand brake light flashed once after a hard braking. Also, low brake fluid warning message flashed once. 6. Engine sound was on the higher side. |
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BHPian | ![]() Got this image in our Hexa WhatsApp group. Looks more MUV now albeit from the yankee genre. |
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The rpm's you pushed to are almost borderline limits which is why you got the smell of the clutch burning. Wheel spin is asking for trouble. It is best to avoid it as you can end up getting stuck more than trying to get yourself moving. It also helps that if you are driving in unfamiliar territory, approach it by day instead of an odd hour. | |
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BHPian ![]() | ![]() Owner must be crazy about white color or hates black color to the core. All around black cladding is painted to white. This modification transformed Hexa to Aria, which is true MUV. White body color and contrast black cladding will definitely breaks that monotonous of MUV looks. |
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Yes engine sound is on the higher side if it is revved hard. In traffic I found it unobtrusive. Last edited by Rehaan : 13th July 2017 at 17:39. Reason: Do avoid quoting inline, as it then causes confusion when re-quoted :) | |||||||
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BHPian Join Date: Nov 2016 Location: Jamshedpur
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| ![]() Last week test-drove 3 so called SUVs back to back, with all family members. 1. Tata Hexa XTA (finally the dealership provided me with the automatic version) 2. Honda BRV VXD (dealership didn't have automatic which I wanted to) 3. XUV 500 W10 (dealership didn't have automatic which I wanted to) Here I would provide the comments from my family members for whom I'm planning to buy (I'm being a happy non-complaining type of driver with most of the vehicles I drive) Parents: XUV the best, easy to get in and out, and comfortably sits 3 adults. Looks also proportional. (The Hexa was equipped with the side step though!) Wife: Ok with Hexa & XUV both (ride & seating comfort in 1st & 2nd row mattered), though look wise she liked Hexa. Children: They were happier (in the last row always) with XUV, probably they were excited about the sun-roof. My logic doesn't matter more and I don't mind either! |
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BHPian ![]() Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Chennai
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| ![]() Guys I have booked my hexa xta with the on road price of 19,65,000 RS ( including the extended warranty for two years and AMC in Chennai. The dealer presently has two vehicles in his stockyard both manufactured in April. Is it safe two get an April manufactured vehicle or should I wait for the July manufactured one? Will there be a price difference since the price of a few raw materials have also gone down. Last edited by HOTROD : 13th July 2017 at 19:04. Reason: Spelling mistake |
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BANNED Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Cochin
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As for your Q, I think it would be ok to go for the one's in the stock yard because no changes have been brought to the Hexa. Price difference would not be there because they take the current on road price. I also have another question for the fellow BHPians. Since I booked for XMA, I am looking at fitting with the 16" alloys, Fog lamps with DRLs and rear parking camera but the dealer has not given me the official price list for any of these and from talking to him it felt like he is not keen on promoting the same. for the fog lamps and DRLs he said the wiring has not come. What is the situation in dealerships across the country. Have they started fitting with all optional accessories? Last edited by Rudra Sen : 14th July 2017 at 08:49. Reason: typo corrected | |
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BHPian ![]() Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Chennai
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Coming to the accessories I have asked for the side step alone. When it comes to getting electric accessories I would suggest getting it done with the dealer in the future once he has all the required wiring since you can question him if there is some issue. Alloy I would suggest you get it in the market. For now this dealer does have all the accessories. I will ask him if he does the lights and stuff | |
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Senior - BHPian Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Pune
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Senior - BHPian Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: bangalore
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I have ARIA Pure LX without any factory fitted Audio or fogs( front). But wiring is present for all speakers including tweeters and also for fogs. Rear fog lamps come vehicle but not connected. Just fit front Fogs and connect the wires. Both front and rear fogs will work. cost of front fogs is around 2.5K for my ARIA | |
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BHPian Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Bangalore
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Senior - BHPian ![]() | ![]() Going by the description of the event, I recall a similar incident in my Storme (described in my ownership thread) where I had to go up an incline right after a sharp turn. I took it as usual which is turn in slowly and started ascending from gear 1. But the vehicle was totally bogged down and kept rolling back. I gave way to a partially loaded Bolero which made up easily. Later I realised that since the Storme is a turbo charged engine, It needs to build up rpm to get into the torque band which the N.A. Bolero did not require to. I then used momentum into the turn and kept the revs above 2200rpm and was able to go up smoothly in gear 2. Not sure if this helps. |
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