Upgraded from an Alto K10 to Maruti Jimny: Observations after 800 km

It is spacious, comfortable and easy to drive. The ride over potholes is comfortable as compared to the Alto and Kia Sonet.

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Happy Member of the Jimny Club

Finally, after drooling over the 3-door Jimny, excited after Jimny India launch confirmation and sad over its initial pricing, the Gods above and decision-makers at MS had some mercy over people like me and brought out the price-drop/year-end discount. The discount made me think whether I should buy it or not.

My ex-boss was constantly pushing me to buy the Jimny, since a few of his friends too bought it after the price drop. He has been long saying that we will go for a snow drive in my Jimny when it snows this winter in Shimla. So after a long wait and dilly-dallying, I finally paid a visit to the Nexa showroom in Shimla and finalised the Zeta MT.

Jimny (Nexa Blue-MT) was delivered on 26th Dec and took a small night ride with my spouse and brother for fuelling up. Finally got the chance to take it to my hometown a few days later and here are some of my observations of the Jimny after about 800 Km of driving.

• Coming from a 2016 Alto K10, Jimny is spacious, comfortable, and easy to drive. I’m enjoying the drive.
• Being a compact SUV, not much of a hassle to drive around Shimla where space is always a constraint.
• Turning radius is large but if you plan well, you can manoeuvre it quite easily. In my hometown, I did the same turns in a single go in Jimny as I used to do in Alto K10. You need to consciously plan your turn and go about it.
• The ride over potholes is comfortable as compared to Alto and Sonet, but over speed bumps at slightly higher speeds the rear end feels like it swerves a little bit.
• I got a fuel efficiency of 15.6 KMPL for tank-to-tank fuelling for the Shimla-Bilaspur-Keylong-Kullu stretch. During the stretch from Shimla to Bilaspur I got a fuel efficiency of 20 KMPL (mostly downhill) but for Kullu to Keylong stretch, I got a fuel efficiency of 11.5 KMPL.
• Engine is powerful as compared to Alto K10, as I could take uphill turns even in 3rd gear till Manali. After Manali, I had to do similar turns in either 2nd or 1st gear. At high altitudes, it did struggle a bit during overtaking. But between Shimla-Kullu didn’t face any such issue as I usually avoid quick overtaking.
• My colleague finds the rear seat comfortable (city rides only) as the seats are upright and big windows don’t make him feel claustrophobic like the ones of the i20 do.
• Lastly, everyone near my office talks about the Jimny whenever I take it to the office. Yesterday one of my colleagues' driver brought his other driver friend to show the Jimny inside out.
• Jimny surely brings out the smile in everyone who is in its presence.

Overall, I am quite happy with the decision to become a Jimny owner.

Now waiting for snowfall in Shimla to try out snow driving with my Ex-boss and colleagues.

God, please let it snow this year!

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