Complete Review of RITZ ZXI and Detailed Analysis. Review on Maruti Suzuki RitZ

A Complete Review of RITZ ZXI & a Guidance for Buying New Car.

I am working in a Research organization. I have being doing detailed analysis  for buying a car for last  one year. Since  I undergone lot of stress& confusion in finalizing  and selecting a car, I want to give a  sincere, unbiased and reliable  guidance to all readers . Due to this my review may be little long, but  I hope the readers shall excuse me for the  Content  it contain. As a new car buyer important  doubts are.

1.Which BRAND I have to buy

1. Which  MODEL  I have to buy

3.Whether  PETROL or DIESEL

All the above questions are reasonably addressed in this review. It took   nearly one year to finalise the above doubts. Hence I can authentically discuss with anyone  and clarify their doubts. My yearly usage is around 5000-6000 Km. I am  180 cm height and normal built body. My first&foremost requirement was a car with  reasonably high seating position. I fixed my budget as 4- 4.5L. I have short listed the following cars . Maruthi NewWagor R,  Hyundai I 10,   Test drive both the cars and like the style, comfort and interior quality of I 10, but the tall boy design, new style, K series Engine  and brand value of Maruthi. Finally I booked the New WagonR .

My real analysis started after the booking of the  Wagon R only . I have revised my requirement as

“ SAFETEY, COMFORT, ECONOMY”. I decided to buy a car  with  ABS&EBD, Airbag. & 1200 CC engine. Considering the cost VS safety factor   I realized paying around 50K is worthy.I cancelled my first booking and continued to do the researching  and analysis.

Based on   inputs available to me short listed the following brands. Budget  I have not restricted or  fixed, depends  on the specification and features. I have short listed Swift, Ritz, 120 Magna, Scoda Fabia, Volkswagen Polo, Ford Figo, Tata Vista, Feat Punto &Toyota LIVA.

Due the  height concern  and  very low ground clearance  initially itself I ruled out the   Polo, Figo and Fabia.All this cars are fairly good and comfort to drive. But always prick your heart when you pass hump or pot hole. Second thing I don’t like  the“ PIT” like seating position of above said cars during my test drive. Tata vista is good  car in terms of space, comfort, internal materials and average on fit and finish. But I   dislike the service& careless behavior of  Tata guys. More over now a days Tata is not focus on quality of product or business ethics, but they are only interested to make money in all means. Punto I rejects only because of  infamous Tata service. i20  is a great car by LOOK and interior, but I have friends who is not at all happy with the mileage so it is ruled out.  In Toyota Liva  I observed only “Toyota emblem of Q class”. Most of the   big leaders who is good in premium cars are  selling their hatch back cars with outright cheap  and inferior quality  product and there is motive to push their product to India by hook or crook.  After lot of survey and analysis finally I fixed  my brand “ Maruti Suzuki”.

Now my question is only SWIFT  or Ritz.

Finally I end up in  Maruti Swift and Ritz. Both cars are doing well. By this timeNew Swift launched. The car was inspiring and  attracted  to many, but it disappointed me. I don’t like the  stretched   bonnet, very small boot space and low level seating position of new Swift. One more interesting thing is that  before modification the petrol swift took 2 months and diesel swift took 3 months for delivery  But now you can get petrol swift  immediately  and diesel in 3 months  I think  many prospective buyer of  Swift is switched over to other models

I  decided to Buy Maruti Ritz the most favored car of the web with 2 million fans. I like the K series Swift rocket engine, tall boy design, spacious interior, European rear design, sporty  tachometer, easy ingress and digress bold and masculine appearance. My wife is not at all happy with my decision, she dislike the rear design of the Ritz. I told her to give importance to performance not appearance.  Considering the safety  aspects I decided to buy Ritz Zxi and I booked the car . After booking the car again lot of confusion. Whether to go for Petrol or Diesel?. By just paying one lakhs extra I can get a Ritz  VDI, but there is no Zdi option at that time. I used many software’s and calculation to find petrol or diesel confusion. Finally again I cancelled my Ritx Zxi and  decided to do  more detailed analysis. My policy is that till we buy any thing we can study about it, but after buying it we shouldn’t  regret about it. So my second car booking also cancelled. But spend lot of hours  in net, various forums and also my own excel sheets to finalise about Petrol or Diesel . After so much of analysis I understood that a person with annual usage of less than 6KKM can very well go for a patrol car.Details in other review.

I called the ABT Guindy  guys to my home and  booked Silky Silver Ritx Zxi on August 2012. . This time there was no dilemma, no ambiguity, no confusion. I paid the booking  amount and told the sales guys to keep the vehicle ready at  showroom. I was so happy to see the car. I took some photos of the car for my wife and daughter. Made the full payment & eagerly waiting for the Regn.

Ultimately  the day has come. The most awaited and may be most delayed but most studied & experienced car purchasers day. The above incidents taught me lot of information and knowledge about cars. It took nearly one years to complete this process. During this time I visited many car show rooms, many test drives, many discussions, many booking and cancellations. But none other than RITZ is tantalized me so much .  During this one years  especially after the cancellation of my  second booking  day by day my love towards Ritz Zxi  increased . ABT done all the PDI inspection.  I prepared my own  checklist & find everything OK. On 23rd August we took the car to my home Via Chennai Pondy  ECR & really it was a wonderful moment.

I want to acknowledge  my sincere  thanks to the Manager of ABT Guindy  for prompt action, not only during car booking time, but even during service and other time also. I like the  courtesy, excellent  and capable sales and service personnel's, professionalism &coordination of ABT Guindy. Even now they are inquiring and informing me about the vehicle and its service dues.

Experience with RITX ZXI:

Great VFM car.Traveling in ECR and other highways as well as city bump to bump  traffic are really fantastic with this. It gives a feeling of big SUV  like Innova. Confident driving. Excellent ride quality. Now completed 2K Km both highway and city. 1st  service over. 3rd to 4th gear change was little tight &corrected it.  A.C. is super cool. I am happy for purchasing ZXi version and by the Grace of God its working great. Silent &smooth engine. We have to see odometer some times to know engine is running while idle. Front &Rear seats are really comfortable good head space and leg space, Reasonable Boot. I would say it is the best buy VFM car in this segment. One more important point. October 2012 face lifted Ritz launched. Absolutely there is no change in the Rear design of new Ritz . “Hats off Maruti”. This is a bold   answer to the critics abut the rear shape of Ritz .I appreciate the   Maruti  for  their courage to not change the rear design and if done so, it would have been misinterpret as their  earlier design is a  failure one .   Invited everybody’s commends.

T/U. MouthSHut for Given me space for writing this review