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This review was posted from a another website by Greeksrik hope it will be useful to u guys Part (1)
Its my pleasure to post here my experience with the test drive of the new palio stile. Without bragging much about anything, let me start off to the point. I has spoken to one Mr.Subbiah the manager of Prerana motors, next to urvashi theatre (lalbagh road) expressing interest in the test drive. since the car was still unavailable in the showroom around April 1st, he said he will contact me once its there. Maybe due to his busy schedules, he never did that. We all are busy, and we can't expect others to be proactive when we ourselves are not! So I decided to call him up again, and this time he remembered me, and asked me to come on Good Friday morning for the test drive since the car was now available in the showroom.
And what a good friday it was !! There was no traffic whatsoever in the morning, and I promptly presented myself in their showroom spot on at 10am. They were just opened for the day and without any surprise i found the Palio Stile parked there. The lady who received me was very courteous and to the point, and she said she "doesnt know" for whatever she "didnt know" Me already having owned a palio, starting checking out the car by myself. The driveable car was another piece which was getting ready, so i indulged in the one in the showroom.
Here a few salient points:
1. The double barrel headlamps are a thing of beauty and is master crafted to a perfect shine! it simply blows you away when you stand and observe it from the distance.
2. The beige treatment within the car is sort of dirty, but you get used to it after a while.
3. The power window switches are now part of the door lock mould, instead of the previous door handle mould (if i am not wrong)
4. The rear indicators are vertical (the ones in the earlier photos from shineshine are not the indicators, its the reverse lights) and are clear lens. Needless to say, the remote fuel cap release and boot release are there as well.
5. The seating position is not the greatest (i found the indigo to be better in terms of back support and sitting straight, whereas the palio is more of a slide-back-relax-and-drive kind of seat), but its the same since the older model. overall the changes mentioned above makes the car looks refreshing.
6. while sitting in the rear seat, i shook myself a lot, and found that the car too shakes on this impact. well this only means that you can notice the weight shed from the times of the old palio. nothing to be anxious about since the reassuring door thud still is there! (if you know what i mean)
After drooling over the car much, the car was ready for the test drive, and no fuss, the key was given to my by one mr.thimmiah and he said lets go!!one point though is that i feel the cars going to be delivered to someone are the ones being offered for test drive, which i feel is cheating on some unsuspecting person! the one i drove already had 57kms clocked on it. i can understand their yard is in peenya, which is far far away, but come on for 57 kms i wouldve crossed hosur even!!being familiar with the car, i started it and there is only a faint feeling that the car is on. quite impressive. i had a drive from lalbagh road onto krumbeigal road upto rv road circle, u turn, and then to jc road and via poornima theatre road back to lalbagh road (about 1-2 km with all kinds of traffic and empty stretches today being good friday) my observations:
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