After reading so many ownership threads for last four years, now I am able put my own thread. Feeling bit pressure to put up a good thread.
My Santro car was almost 10 year old and wanted to change the car during last four years. But something or other prevented me from doing that.
In the beginning of 2010, we had decided it’s time to change and decision was to have a sedan.
My main criteria for selecting my next car was:
1. Good Engine, should be enjoyable to drive. OPen about bot Petrol and Diesel
2. Safety - Airbags + ABS
3. All the family members should like it
4. Budget around INR 9 Lakhs
Armed with all the knowledge from T-BHP, test drove the SX4, Fiesta, ANHC, Verna (Diesel) and Linea (Petrol). This process started in February.
We dropped SX4, Linea, Fiesta from the list. There are several reasons to it. One main point was both daughter and wife did not like them. I asked for the reasons and quickly pointed out that they did not connect with the cars and not to push my T-BHP knowledge on them. So these cars were dropped without much arguments.
Personally liked ANHC, Fiesta and Verna (Diesel). Verna's torque was addictive and the fit n finish was also at par with ANHC. Wife and Daughter liked ANHC for space and comfort.
So final choice was between ANHC and Verna (Diesel).
Wife - Prefer ANHC, but Verna not sure???
Daughter - ANHC, nothing else.
Did some more reading of the these two cars and got busy with my work, went on a business trip outside India. So my purchase process took a back seat. Meanwhile, daughter convinced my wife and they took a one more test drive of ANHC on their own. They also had a look at Jazz.
Wife "
connected" well with Jazz and said you can consider Jazz also. So I was also like Jazz is not a bad option. Refer my to thread
http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/sedans...jazz-city.html.
But although my daughter liked Jazz, her choice was still with ANHC. So jazz wad added to the list.
Decision time:
Did some more reading about ANHC/Verna/Jazz threads, to find out more about the ownership experience, in the process one more month was lost.
Wifey said enough of your research /night surfing on TBHP, your indecision time has costed us extra 30,000 due to hike in excise duty and so called Euro-4 hike.
But I was actually trying to get the car through my company. The company route did not work out and it was around end of March, so waited for Euro-4 period to kick-in.
So finally I had decided to go for ANHC based on following facts (even if it menat streching the budget):
1. Intending to keep the car at least for 6/7 years, so looking for a hassle free experience.
2. It was the common choice of family. Later on I realised deicsion of taking ANHC TD first, made wife and daughter completely biased towards ANHC.
3. Verna is going to be upgraded some time next year and did not want to wait that long. Missing Airbags also was also a factor against it.
4. Based on the ownership experience of members, I could gather that ANHC gives a Piece of Mind factor, which was important for me.
Finally decided to go For ANHC V M/T. So the thread title moving from "
H" Hyundai to "
H" Honda.
I know, some members may think it was predictable and safe decision. To some extent it's true.
But when I did a calculation of cost benefit ratio of owning a ANHC, I found the factors (Peace of mind, Hassle free ownership, Good fit + finish and Brand Value) which are in favour of Honda are difficult to put a value to it.
These factors may not appeal in direct relation to 1.5 lakhs price difference (when you buy mentioned others cars ). But it did appear to me (despite falling sales numbers in April) the ANHC will be VFM in long term and so the final decision to take ANHC.
I would like to thank all the owners of ANHC (especailly SkyWalker, Mevtec, Guna, Star_VB, Jayant, Kalyan, B103, Nandas, Pratim, Joecherian, Samanth) in the forum for their valuable contribution which helped in arriving final decision.
Will Contiue with Sales experiene, Pre-inspection, Delivery process and more photo's in next post.