5000 km up on my Maruti Jimny MT: 8 real world observations

Not so superb on the road in between the city and the village: the highway. You need to chill and let the Cretas and Dzires pass.

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5000 kms ownership experience of the Jimny Alpha MT:

• A throttle is a mandatory accessory to have. Any make, any model, just stick it in auto mode and the Jimny feels alive again. Don't know what took me this long to get one. Also don't understand why Maruti wouldn't give this kind of a throttle map as standard from the factory? Nobody would've called this car underpowered had they done that.
• Superb in the city with its perfect dimensions and pothole gobbling abilities.
• Superb in the villages on broken and kuccha roads.
• Not so superb on the road in between the city and the village: the highway. You need to chill and let the Cretas and Dzires pass. Very comfortable doing a 100-110 cruise. Feels strained and a bit out of shape beyond that.
• Narrow seat squab, narrow footwell, sitting very close to the window, no place to rest your right elbow. It all leads to stiff bodies after just a 2 hours+ drive. I'm broad framed.
• Not a 5 seater. Not even 4 adults and 1 kid.
• Ample luggage space for 4 people going on a weekend trip.
• All in all, an extremely capable and fun car to have for a nuclear family. By no stretch of imagination is it underpowered or overpriced. Maruti service is affordable. Suzuki reliability is bulletproof. It's just a happy place to be behind the wheel of a Jimny

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