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Originally Posted by lamborghini Congratulations Sir!
Wish you many happy miles with the Toyota. With your kind of usage, it would be an ideal choice - spacious city car for the family. I am sure you will grow to love it.
What color did you get? Any reason for not getting the SP? |
Thank you Sir for answering to many of my queries. I wanted a diesel hatch back with ABS. Since GD already has ABS, I did not for GD SP.
Its a bluish silver GD + fog lamps + toyota smile pack + bumper corner protector + mud flaps, boot tray etc. at 6.7L onroad. I did the pre-registration inspection yesterday and it was to my satisfaction. The car had 4km in odo and it came out of the assembly line on 31st Oct, 2012 at 21:09 hrs. Delivery will be on 30th Nov, 2012. Planned the follwing few things to get fitted from outside:
1. Michelin xm2/Yoko 185/65 R14 tyres with alloys (stock tyres are goodyear)
2. Autofoam seat cover.
3. Double din pioneer HU (no DVD) with infinity speakers at back.
4. 3M thick underbody coating directly from 3M.
5. Door padding with dynamite extreme and some more for noise insulation.
6. Rear spoiler: Showroom quote is 7K, whereas trusted outside store quote is 2.4K
I mentioned somewhere in the forum that post July manufactured liva cars have seen some improvement in NVH and suspension noise. There is a mistake in the information, its actually post September manufactured cars. However, I can test that only after the delivery.
Last one month has been mentally and physically hectic in going through so many test drives of liva, figo, i20, micra, sail U-VA, punto. I have probably come to some conclusion and only time will tell if I am right or wrong. Briefly it is like this:
1. The best car that the driver inside me liked is: Fiat Punto sports (90 HP). Note that its not the 75 HP puntos with that long clutch travel. I am talking about the sports version here. Its clutch is short and lighter than even my getz petrol. Its an amazing vehicle, far far far ahead of the rest and at 8.25L onroad, it will remain my dream to own one some day. My heart almost stopped when I was coming down hill along those twisted roads with that god-made steering in my hand. I have no objectives to describe its stability. There are two very good threads running on this, and interested people can go through it. With my father's palio experience, I cannot trust fiats to run trouble free all 365 days a year. But if I ever have the money upto 10 lakhs to buy a second car, I will definitely buy a white Punto sports. No confusion there. As a self driven car for the driver inside me with a 7+ lakh budget, it will be the humble figo titanium diesel. No confusion even here.
2. Will I buy the punto sports where my familiy will be driven almost 60 km a day in the city at the back? My answer is NO. Why should I allow all the pleasure of driving to be taken by the chauffer? Also, back space in punto is cramped and the ride is on the stiffer side in the city speeds. In such a situation, the best diesel hatch is liva today. Again no confusion here. Its ability to soak bumps at city speeds along with space at back, fuel efficiency and zero-turbo lag driving is unparallel. I did not like the back seat ride of 8.4L i20 for that matter.
So, I am looking forward to decorate the boring liva to some extent and saving money to gift myself a punto sports.
Sorry for the long post.