Khulla Panga

With the launch of the Maruti Suzuki Swift’s Diesel Variant, Maruti is now on a move to start their plant in April, with the date of starting of the plant getting nearer, the real estate prices in IMT Manesar has started rising. Auto part manufactures, packaging machine, packaging material, lights and spare part manufacturers are now getting into IMT Manesar, the best Industrial area of Gurgaon according to me. I have done 4 deals in the last month of this area and I expect the prices to shoot up at least 5 times in the next 3 years.

So the new Maruti Suzuki Swifts is in the market now and the Skoda Fabia is also expected in India in the second half of 2007, the monopoly of TATA Indica is over now. I have 3 TATA indica’s but I was never happy with the performance of these vehicles. A recent Indica that I have purchased a month back in January is far improved than the once that I had before. With turbocharged engine and better pickup and much more stuff, TATA has definitely made something which is appreciable is 3.75 Lakhs.

Well, the time is real bad and it’s gonna be worst if our government will not bring down the fuel prices even of large falls in the Crude oil prices. I read the newspaper today and saw the Skoda India is planning to launch the Fabia into the Indian market, technically – the only variant or my favorite Accent CRDi. I would definitely love to have this car, but the dilemma is, shall I go for a Skoda Fabia or any other CNG vehicle in the same segment.

Gurgaon will have CNG stations soon and most of my friends have CNG vehicles and it costs them just 90 paisay a Km with a CNG vehicle!!

I was experiencing starting problems with my baby (Hyundai Accent CRDI) which is now 3 years or 1,25,000 Km old and still running like a horse in a Polo game. I contacted the Hyundai fellows told me tha the vehicle has a engine back compression problem and got the Piston rings, sleeve, Pistons and almost all the oils (engine, break, gear, steering, coolant) and the filters (diesel, oil and air) needs to be replaced.

The overall service took 15 days and 70000/- bucks but now the car is like performing better than the new one. Now I need to add an Extra 50 Paisay while calculating the KMPL of the car.

Say whatever but this bulldog can’t beet the first truck of our company: The Totota Innova

So, our company has a bulldog now!!!

So a new milestone of Hero Honda, Hero Honda Glamour is in the market. After a long break, hero Honda has finally come up with the new model. At the time I wrote about the Hero Honda and Bajaj competition, I was anticipating something new from Hero Honda. There’s news that Hero Honda is planning to shift their Dharuhera plant to Dehradun because of “cost issues”. Let’s hope for the best for the company.

Mahindra Scorpio Vs Toyota Innova

We are in process of getting another vehicle for our office use. So we went to try the new Mahindra Scorpio this time. You cannot call it a car, it’s a jeep altogether. I don’t know why Mahindra is making vehicles without proper planning.

Its great that my height is 5’7” so I could fit in the car. If my height would have been 6 feets, I could not fit in the car. The legroom is so less that 6 people with good height cannot fit together. The engine is no doubt the best I have ever experienced from any vehicle of this segment, even better then our Toyota Innova G4. Pickup is superb. Breaking is so so. Gear lever us tight as jeeps, steering also not as good as Innova. Not at all a comfortable car. I can drive the Innova 1000 Km a day but I can never do that with Scorpio. Also the worst part is that the top model on road will costs more than 9 Lakhs which in not worth it. I would prefer to take another Innova V model rather.