The "I Booked my Car" Thread

Arbee02 · 14th October 2010, 12:20

After months of procrastination and one cancelled car booking (i20), finally booked my White Scorpio A/T 2WD at India Garage, Bangalore. Hoping to get delivery this weekend (for Dasara), earlier than expected. Exchanging my Santro A/T.

shantanumishra · 14th October 2010, 17:06

Make : Tata Motors
Model : Safari
Variant : LX
Fuel : Diesel
Booking Date : 13-Oct-10
Color : Black
Expected Delivery Date : 10-12 Days
City : Gurgaon
Freebies : Mud flaps, Floor mats + Some Cash Discount.
Accessories : Front Fog Lamps, Tata Minda Central Locking, Planning to put After market Alloys.

Ragul · 14th October 2010, 17:26

Make: Maruti Suzuki
Model : Gypsy King
Variant : BS IV (G13BB or K12M uncertain)
Fuel : Petrol
Booking Date : 07/10/2010
Color : Silky Silver Metallic
Expected Delivery Date : Hinted at 3 months, before retirement hopefully.
Dealer & City : Bimal Auto, Old Airport rd, Bangalore
Freebies : Free air in tyres, extra air for backup - they are providing a spare 5th wheel for that

jkdas · 14th October 2010, 17:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ragul

Make: Maruti Suzuki
Model : Gypsy King
Variant : BS IV (G13BB or K12M uncertain)
Fuel : Petrol
Booking Date : 07/10/2010
Color : Silky Silver Metallic
Expected Delivery Date : Hinted at 3 months, before retirement hopefully.
Dealer & City : Bimal Auto, Old Airport rd, Bangalore
Freebies : Free air in tyres, extra air for backup - they are providing a spare 5th wheel for that

Great! the same engine in A-Star etc right?

How much would it cost you OTR?

Ragul · 14th October 2010, 18:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by jkdas

Great! the same engine in A-Star etc right?

How much would it cost you OTR?

5.49lacs ex showroom + 84K Road tax + 23K Insurance makes roughly 6.58 lacs

HTH

akshaymahajan · 14th October 2010, 22:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by jkdas

Great! the same engine in A-Star etc right?

How much would it cost you OTR?

Same as Swift's engine.
A* come with a 1000 cc engine if I remember correctly.

harishsegar · 14th October 2010, 22:31

Make: FIAT
Model : Linea
Variant : Tjet Plus
Fuel : Petrol
Booking Date : 14/10/2010
Color : Tuscan Wine
Expected Delivery: 2-3 days after loan clearing.
Dealer & City : Concorde, prabadevi, Mumbai
Freebies : None

EARTHed · 14th October 2010, 22:40

^^Whoa! First T-Jet Plus of Team Bhp?!! PLEASE start a ownership thread once you get your FIAT!

Ragul · 14th October 2010, 23:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by akshaymahajan

Same as Swift's engine.
A* come with a 1000 cc engine if I remember correctly.

The Swift comes with a K12M. The local sales manager @Maruti Bangalore is "certain" on a personal hunch that if its a BSIV Gypsy its has to be K series engine. Beyond that, he has no clue and is too lazy to call Gurgaon plant and check for me (called him 6 times in last week, and he was not picking up my calls most of the time).

Then although the showroom and website leaflet/printout advertises G13BB, the salesman verbally mentioned 85bhp and 1200CC after "checking" internally, which is the K12M specs! Unless the G13BB has been tweaked to meet Euro-4 - but there is no global public news of such a development.

The suspense continues ...

--R

motor spirit · 15th October 2010, 09:36

Finally i Booked My car

Make : FIAT
Model : Grande Punto
Varient : 1.2 Emotion
Booking date :14th October 2010
Color : Exotica red
Expected date of delivery : 6th Nov 2010
Dealer : Concorde Motors , Mysore road , Bangalore
Freebies : Door mats , Mudflaps , Sunfilm, Idol

akshaymahajan · 15th October 2010, 11:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ragul

The Swift comes with a K12M. The local sales manager @Maruti Bangalore is "certain" on a personal hunch that if its a BSIV Gypsy its has to be K series engine. Beyond that, he has no clue and is too lazy to call Gurgaon plant and check for me (called him 6 times in last week, and he was not picking up my calls most of the time).

Then although the showroom and website leaflet/printout advertises G13BB, the salesman verbally mentioned 85bhp and 1200CC after "checking" internally, which is the K12M specs! Unless the G13BB has been tweaked to meet Euro-4 - but there is no global public news of such a development.

The suspense continues ...

--R

Only if they surprise you by plonking a SX4 engine into your Gypsy.
BTW: It's a little weird buying a car and not knowing what heart it will come with. But then there are no other options to a Gypsy.

raj_5004 · 17th October 2010, 09:36

We booked 3 cars in 3 days, all for our company use.

1) We had an old 2003 model 800 here in mumbai which was being used by a staff. It was high time we gave him a new car. I shortlisted Ritz P, Ritz D, i10 Kappa 2, Swift P & Swift D for him. We left the ultimate decision on him since he would be the person who would be driving the car more than us! He found the Swift very cramped & dint like the looks of the i10, so it was the Ritz. Since his usage was quite low & he was used to petrol cars, he selected the Ritz VXi!. On-road price - Rs. 5.46 lakhs

2) We had an old Indica in kerela which we used sparingly & had given to a staff. Since the vehicle was prone to issues, even the staff reluctantly used it! Finally, we decided to replace it. It was a 2002 model Indica V2. We were to replace it with a Ritz or Figo diesel. but when we were about to sell the car, the local market rate we got was 80k max! Amazingly, TATA dealer promised us a deal of Rs. 1.5 lakh on an exchange offer, that is, if we buy an indica vista from them. I was a bit hesitant earlier but then considering the huge savings & the fact that, this car will be very rarely used by us, we booked the Indica Vista. Indica Vista Quadra is booked but I forgot which variant was booked, so i'll update on the pricing later.

3) Ours is a construction company & we needed a 7-8 seater SUV/MUV for carrying staff & labours from our sites. the vehicle needed to be rugged with good GC. This one was simple as the only options were Sumo/Spacio, Bolero & Trax. TATAs were rejected as they are not fit for such abuse (our personal experience) & we have one Trax Cruiser but their A.S.S is bad. so it was the bolero. we booked a Non-AC DI 2WD BS-3 Bolero. On-road price - 5.8 lakhs

verditer · 18th October 2010, 09:29

I"m late to announce this here, but anyway I'm still waiting for my car to get billed at plant and leave plant, so here it is:

Make : Tata
Model : Safari
Variant : EX
Fuel : Diesel
Booking Date : 18-SEP-2010
Color : Mountain Green, Pearl White, Arctic Silver, Cycus Grey (Order of preference)
Expected Delivery Date : Hopefully before end of October
Dealer & City : True Sai Works, Hosur, Tamilnadu
Freebies : 5K Corporate discount, and 5K accessories

This has been a long wait, and still waiting, but let me give some insight:
After months of thinking, finally booked Mountain Green LX Safari on 18-Oct. At that time I told dealer I want ONLY Mountain Green and nothing else. The dealer called back after a week and said Mountain Green is not available and what is my next preference. I ordered Cycus Grey then. They seemed to be trying hard until late night on Sept 30th, but they couldn't get a Cycus Grey either billed at plant.

Then, first week of October, I told them I'll go for EX if EX is immediately available. And I also gave them several color choices - Pearl WHite, Mountain Green, Arctic Silver, Cycus Grey in that order of preference for EX.
Nothing happend, and on Oct 7th, I called the sales guy again for status, and he didn't pick the phone but smsed that he is in meeting and will call me later. He never called, I tried 3 times that day and he didn't pick the phone.
After returning from office that day I called him once more and someone else picked and said he is in meeting. I said I'm coming to the dealership to meet him in person.
I went there, met him, he got me seated, then went into manager's cabin, and there seemed to be a heated discussion with the sales guy seemingly in receiving end from the general manager. Then he came out and said I can speak to the manager.

I went in, the manager was quite polite, and apologised for the delay.. I cooled down, then asked them when is the car expected. They said in 10-15 days time they'll get it billed. The main reason he gave for delay was, upto Sep 30th, there was LX green not available, then I changed to EX. If I had decided on EX before that, he would've got it by now. Anyways, he promised to get a EX billed in 10-15 days time, and will also add some more freebies to compensate delay. I have also given the huge choice of colors, told them get me any EX except arctic white or mineral red. Any other color is OK.

I left with some assurance. A week later, 14th Oct, I called again, and sales guy said they're going to get it billed in 2 days time.

Today is 18th Oct, one month from date of booking. Has been a long wait, and I'm hoping things will progress this week or latest by month end I should have it. If nothing happens in another 2 weeks, I'll cancel booking. This is the only dealer in Hosur. :-(

PHEW!

Chrome6Boy · 18th October 2010, 10:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by harishsegar

Make: FIAT
Model : Linea
Variant : Tjet Plus
Fuel : Petrol
Booking Date : 14/10/2010
Color : Tuscan Wine
Expected Delivery: 2-3 days after loan clearing.
Dealer & City : Concorde, prabadevi, Mumbai
Freebies : None

Congratulations! We went to Condorde motors in Chennai and we were told that Linea T-Jet is only being released in Mumbai, Pune and in Delhi. I'm sure the car will be awesome!

sriku23 · 26th October 2010, 11:03

Booked! expecting delivery today
Make : FIAT
Model : 1.3 MJT
Variant : ACTIVE
Fuel : Diesel
Booking Date :22nd OCT
Color : MEDIUM GREY
Expected Delivery Date : 26OCT .. toDAY!!
Dealer & City : CONCORDE MOTORS , MYSORE ROAD , BANGALORE
Freebies : Same old story , Mats , perfume , idol and body cover.
Others : Insurance , extended warrenty free.. Had to Pay Rs 3000 to AVAIL the offer.

Story goes like this...
I Had a Fiat Adventure 1.6 sport, my first car.. was in love with it.. Bought a Swift LDi first MJT engine thinking with a fiat engine one could not go wrong.. repented from the first day till the last but one.. why?.. because the day i sold it i sold it for a bomb! 4lac 7000 to a dealer! like the famous quote goes " whats the use of power without control " true example I believe is the Yucky Swift.. ( I can say that 'cause I was spoilt by the Adventure)

test drove a few i20's , figo's , Vista and others.. nothing comes close to a Fiat... No close competitors..

buying the basic variant and planning to beef it up with good interiors, HYUNDAI central locking (

) thats the only one that fits in a Fiat (without issues due to some wire kinda mechanism) PETES (post 5000Kms) , Blisten suspension (all four) , and Torox brakes (front) .. let me know ur thoughts guys..

14th October 2010, 12:20	#1141
Arbee02 Newbie Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Bangalore Posts: 1 Thanked: 0 Times	Finally booked my Scorpio A/T 2WD After months of procrastination and one cancelled car booking (i20), finally booked my White Scorpio A/T 2WD at India Garage, Bangalore. Hoping to get delivery this weekend (for Dasara), earlier than expected. Exchanging my Santro A/T.
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14th October 2010, 17:06	#1142
shantanumishra BHPian Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: BLR/LKO Posts: 325 Thanked: 144 Times	Finally My Dream comes True - The Beast is destined for its new home Make : Tata Motors Model : Safari Variant : LX Fuel : Diesel Booking Date : 13-Oct-10 Color : Black Expected Delivery Date : 10-12 Days City : Gurgaon Freebies : Mud flaps, Floor mats + Some Cash Discount. Accessories : Front Fog Lamps, Tata Minda Central Locking, Planning to put After market Alloys.
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14th October 2010, 17:26	#1143
Ragul BANNED Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Bangalore Posts: 1,259 Thanked: 954 Times	Make: Maruti Suzuki Model : Gypsy King Variant : BS IV (G13BB or K12M uncertain) Fuel : Petrol Booking Date : 07/10/2010 Color : Silky Silver Metallic Expected Delivery Date : Hinted at 3 months, before retirement hopefully. Dealer & City : Bimal Auto, Old Airport rd, Bangalore Freebies : Free air in tyres, extra air for backup - they are providing a spare 5th wheel for that
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14th October 2010, 22:31	#1147
harishsegar BHPian Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Mumbai Posts: 178 Thanked: 2 Times	Make: FIAT Model : Linea Variant : Tjet Plus Fuel : Petrol Booking Date : 14/10/2010 Color : Tuscan Wine Expected Delivery: 2-3 days after loan clearing. Dealer & City : Concorde, prabadevi, Mumbai Freebies : None
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14th October 2010, 22:40	#1148
EARTHed BANNED Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Greater Bangalore Posts: 420 Thanked: 39 Times	^^Whoa! First T-Jet Plus of Team Bhp?!! PLEASE start a ownership thread once you get your FIAT!
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15th October 2010, 09:36	#1150
motor spirit BHPian Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: bangalore Posts: 236 Thanked: 112 Times	Finally i Booked My car Make : FIAT Model : Grande Punto Varient : 1.2 Emotion Booking date :14th October 2010 Color : Exotica red Expected date of delivery : 6th Nov 2010 Dealer : Concorde Motors , Mysore road , Bangalore Freebies : Door mats , Mudflaps , Sunfilm, Idol
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17th October 2010, 09:36	#1152
raj_5004 Senior - BHPian Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Dubai/Mumbai Posts: 5,238 Thanked: 3,139 Times	Booked 3 cars in 3 days - none for us! We booked 3 cars in 3 days, all for our company use. 1) We had an old 2003 model 800 here in mumbai which was being used by a staff. It was high time we gave him a new car. I shortlisted Ritz P, Ritz D, i10 Kappa 2, Swift P & Swift D for him. We left the ultimate decision on him since he would be the person who would be driving the car more than us! He found the Swift very cramped & dint like the looks of the i10, so it was the Ritz. Since his usage was quite low & he was used to petrol cars, he selected the Ritz VXi!. On-road price - Rs. 5.46 lakhs 2) We had an old Indica in kerela which we used sparingly & had given to a staff. Since the vehicle was prone to issues, even the staff reluctantly used it! Finally, we decided to replace it. It was a 2002 model Indica V2. We were to replace it with a Ritz or Figo diesel. but when we were about to sell the car, the local market rate we got was 80k max! Amazingly, TATA dealer promised us a deal of Rs. 1.5 lakh on an exchange offer, that is, if we buy an indica vista from them. I was a bit hesitant earlier but then considering the huge savings & the fact that, this car will be very rarely used by us, we booked the Indica Vista. Indica Vista Quadra is booked but I forgot which variant was booked, so i'll update on the pricing later. 3) Ours is a construction company & we needed a 7-8 seater SUV/MUV for carrying staff & labours from our sites. the vehicle needed to be rugged with good GC. This one was simple as the only options were Sumo/Spacio, Bolero & Trax. TATAs were rejected as they are not fit for such abuse (our personal experience) & we have one Trax Cruiser but their A.S.S is bad. so it was the bolero. we booked a Non-AC DI 2WD BS-3 Bolero. On-road price - 5.8 lakhs
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18th October 2010, 09:29	#1153
verditer BHPian Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Hosur, Tamilnadu Posts: 328 Thanked: 105 Times View My Garage	I"m late to announce this here, but anyway I'm still waiting for my car to get billed at plant and leave plant, so here it is: Make : Tata Model : Safari Variant : EX Fuel : Diesel Booking Date : 18-SEP-2010 Color : Mountain Green, Pearl White, Arctic Silver, Cycus Grey (Order of preference) Expected Delivery Date : Hopefully before end of October Dealer & City : True Sai Works, Hosur, Tamilnadu Freebies : 5K Corporate discount, and 5K accessories This has been a long wait, and still waiting, but let me give some insight: After months of thinking, finally booked Mountain Green LX Safari on 18-Oct. At that time I told dealer I want ONLY Mountain Green and nothing else. The dealer called back after a week and said Mountain Green is not available and what is my next preference. I ordered Cycus Grey then. They seemed to be trying hard until late night on Sept 30th, but they couldn't get a Cycus Grey either billed at plant. Then, first week of October, I told them I'll go for EX if EX is immediately available. And I also gave them several color choices - Pearl WHite, Mountain Green, Arctic Silver, Cycus Grey in that order of preference for EX. Nothing happend, and on Oct 7th, I called the sales guy again for status, and he didn't pick the phone but smsed that he is in meeting and will call me later. He never called, I tried 3 times that day and he didn't pick the phone. After returning from office that day I called him once more and someone else picked and said he is in meeting. I said I'm coming to the dealership to meet him in person. I went there, met him, he got me seated, then went into manager's cabin, and there seemed to be a heated discussion with the sales guy seemingly in receiving end from the general manager. Then he came out and said I can speak to the manager. I went in, the manager was quite polite, and apologised for the delay.. I cooled down, then asked them when is the car expected. They said in 10-15 days time they'll get it billed. The main reason he gave for delay was, upto Sep 30th, there was LX green not available, then I changed to EX. If I had decided on EX before that, he would've got it by now. Anyways, he promised to get a EX billed in 10-15 days time, and will also add some more freebies to compensate delay. I have also given the huge choice of colors, told them get me any EX except arctic white or mineral red. Any other color is OK. I left with some assurance. A week later, 14th Oct, I called again, and sales guy said they're going to get it billed in 2 days time. Today is 18th Oct, one month from date of booking. Has been a long wait, and I'm hoping things will progress this week or latest by month end I should have it. If nothing happens in another 2 weeks, I'll cancel booking. This is the only dealer in Hosur. :-( PHEW!
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26th October 2010, 11:03	#1155
sriku23 BHPian Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Bangalore Posts: 29 Thanked: 43 Times	Story Back to Fiat !! Booked! expecting delivery today Make : FIAT Model : 1.3 MJT Variant : ACTIVE Fuel : Diesel Booking Date :22nd OCT Color : MEDIUM GREY Expected Delivery Date : 26OCT .. toDAY!! Dealer & City : CONCORDE MOTORS , MYSORE ROAD , BANGALORE Freebies : Same old story , Mats , perfume , idol and body cover. Others : Insurance , extended warrenty free.. Had to Pay Rs 3000 to AVAIL the offer. Story goes like this... I Had a Fiat Adventure 1.6 sport, my first car.. was in love with it.. Bought a Swift LDi first MJT engine thinking with a fiat engine one could not go wrong.. repented from the first day till the last but one.. why?.. because the day i sold it i sold it for a bomb! 4lac 7000 to a dealer! like the famous quote goes " whats the use of power without control " true example I believe is the Yucky Swift.. ( I can say that 'cause I was spoilt by the Adventure) test drove a few i20's , figo's , Vista and others.. nothing comes close to a Fiat... No close competitors.. buying the basic variant and planning to beef it up with good interiors, HYUNDAI central locking () thats the only one that fits in a Fiat (without issues due to some wire kinda mechanism) PETES (post 5000Kms) , Blisten suspension (all four) , and Torox brakes (front) .. let me know ur thoughts guys..
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