Jan 09, 2003 09:49 AM
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(Updated Jun 22, 2009 12:39 PM)
Somehow it looks like an overgrown cheap toy you find at bangle stores. You know the ones owned by Madoos selling mehendi and bindis.
If the sumo had been sold in any other country besides India,
the company would have been sued out of all their hundred year earnings.
This car squeaks (my couzin describes it as - kicchi, kicchi, kicchi) the moment you take it brand new out of a showroom.
The instruments and lights are taken straight from their 407 trucks.
The gear box rattles and it feels like all the bearings are loose and falling away.
The front end of the car dips even if you just cough on the brakes.
The suspension is too soft and the engine and gearbox noise is alarmingly loud in the front seats.
The steering is against your chest. So if you have to buy a sumo ,employ a driver, save your own self.
The seats are hard.
For a car this big the rear legroom is surprisingly limited. Funny, its limited even in the scorpio, bolero line up.
The bumpers and door panels seem to be hand assembled. Not one line on the front grill, bumpers, side doors, rubber beadings is straight.
Own a sumo for a month and everything seems to come loose in the vehicle.
The engine life is only 150,000 kilometers. After that you gotta rehaul the whole thing.
I’ve seen people travel all over india in the sumo maxicabs, especially the tirupati, ayyappa and dharmasthala route. But the people who travel in them must have iron backsides. I cant sit in a sumo for more than an hour.
