My Dzire Story ... Review on Maruti Suzuki Swift Dzire

Just wanted to share you all my Dzire story. I wanted to buy car for some time now. Searched various cars over net as well as in real. Initially I was looking at Indica xeta first as it is very good car as compared to its price. Its just 3 Lacs on road for such a big comfy car.

But it has disadvantages as its a Tata car. Finishing is not good & its not that powerfull car. Also main thing abot that car is it has typical CAB look. People dont give any respect if you have Indica.

I started looking for other cars. I didn't wanted to go beyond 5 lacs budget. I have certain criteria for my own for buying a car.

1 It should accommodate 5 persons easily.

2 It should be fuel efficient & easy on repairs. Spares should be reasonable.

3 Of course looks !!! It should look good & feel good.

4 Driving should be pleasure, comfortable to ride.

5 Should have some boot space as I like to go on trips with car.

Started looking for various cars. Wagon R is good but small for 5 people & I personally don't like its shape much. Santro is also another good car but quite outdated & also they have stopped manufacturing top end model. GM cars where out of scope as I heard it has lots of service problems. I personally like Getz too. Its a very nice car. with its new price tag its a good bargain. Hyundai people told me that its production is going to be stopped. I was surprised to hear that as I can see lots of its advertsement on TV. Anyways my wife doesn't liked it either so no point in going for that.

Meanwhile sedan car was always on my mind. Its nice feeling that you have 3 box car. In India people still respect more to 3 box car than any hatchback. (3 box means not Fiat & Ambasador :)) So I started looking for seadns also. One thing to mention, all these time swift was always in my mind as its a very popular car on road. It is not one of the best looking car but still has good appeal in it. Its elder sister Dzire is also very popular on road in no time. Had a look at Ascent, but Hyundai dealers were not very keen to show the car. They said its not popular anymore. I was surprised !!! I saw the car its good but not very impressive as its old model & seating position is on lower side. Also it has very low resale value. Looked at new Ford Ikon too. Very old model & same problems as Ascent.

Then one fine day went to Tata's. Impressed with Indica Vista very much. But still it has few problems like name same as old one, Indica. It creates taxi image. Finishing is improved but not top notch. Still areas of improvements are there. Saw Fiat linea there. Very good looks & sturdy body. Very good package but its out of my budget :( Fiat Palio is also very good but again its not very popular car in market & has resale problems. Very low resale value.

Then we (me and my dad) thought of Swift Dzire. My dad always wanted it. We called sales executive for a test drive. He came with diesel version of Dzire :( We told him that we want to buy petrol but he said they dont have petrol model for test drive :( Not expected this from Maruti. I guess they should look into this.

Anyways I took trial on Disel Dzire, it was cool car. Doesn't feel like its a disel car. Good pickup & power with little noise. Then we checked with main thing, price !!! Petrol Vxi was 5.72 on road. I checked the features & got surprised as it has loads of features in it for that price. It comes with HVAC, Power steering & windows, central locking with remote, fog lamps front & rear, tape with CD, MP3, radio & iPod compatibility, Icats (imobiliser, good for safety), few alarms & some more. I was really impressed. Also one more small feature, rear armrest. It gives rich feeling for car & rear passengers if there are only one or two. Nice feature :) Also rear inside cabin light.

We immediately booked the car & been told that have to wait for a month at least. At last we got the car after 5 weeks. Its really a pleasure to drive the car. Its very smooth & engine noise is almost nill. Sound system is not very great but very good. Seats are very comfortable. Boot space is very good. Now I can go for trips with lots of luggage ;) Pickup of the car is also good. AC is nice & chilling. Went for ride immediately on second day & ran the car for almost 300 Kms. Its very nice to drive & feels very safe.

All I can say is my Dzire fulfilled !!!!!!!!!!

Update after 2 months:

I completed almost 2K kms on my car. I am really surprised to see the average :) It gives me 14-15 in City & almost 20 + on Highway .... No jokes. Its true. I drive mostly on 5th gear & steadily on highways. Also I never drive rash. I completed first 1000 kms before 1st service very carefully. Not exceeded 80 kmph speed.

I am really very satisfied with the car. Maruti rocks !!!!