Tata Zest User Reviews

Exterior The exterior of the car looks dazzling, and beauitully elegant at the same time. The projector headlamps and the LED tail lights are a first in the segment and change the overall look and "class" of the car. It stands out in the crowd and I can assure you that this car will surely make heads turn on the road. Premium silver, white and Granite Gray are in my view the best looking colors on this car.

Interior (Features, Space & Comfort) The interior is very spacious, and shoulder hugging seats only add to the comfort. The seats are also height adjustable. And the gray-beige color combination adds charm to the cabin. The cabin is noisefree and is also loaded with a vast array of intelligent features. Also, the stereo system by Harmann will provide you with one of the best sound experiences. The only con could be a lack of cup holders. 

Engine Performance, Fuel Economy and Gearbox The 1.2 revotron engine is super powerful, and the pickup (And its noise!), esp in the 2nd gear is brilliant. I have driven this car many times on highways for very long distances, and the ride has been really smooth. The gearbox moves like feather touch and the same smoothness go for the break, clutch and the accelerator. The only con is the mileage. On the highway, after using the ECO mode, it comes up to 18 km/l which is good, but inside the city, it hardly goes above 11 km/l. However, I live in Indore which has horrible traffic. Even then, the mileage won't be too hight because the revotron engine adds almost 200kgs to the total weight of the car as compared to others. I cannot say about the mileage for the diesel variants.

Ride Quality & Handling Ride quality, as mentioned above, is ecellent and very smooth, both during long trips as well as inside the city. Due to high ground clearence, one simply does not feel the bumps even on streets filled with potholes. The turning radius is also not very much, and thus tough turns in the city can be handled with ease. The SRS airbags and ABS add to the safety. 

Final Words To conclude, the Tata Zest is a superb car, complete with good masculine looks as well as great performance. A true beauty with brains! I sincerely hope that Tata markets this car well, and its sales increase. I strongly suggest anyone who hopes to buy a car in the compact sedan segment to give this baby a chance.

Areas of improvement The only area of improvement I find is the fuel efficiency. Other not-so-important areas might be introducing a rear AC vent, and increasing the number of cup holders.

Styling, performance, strength, stereo system, loaded with featuresFuel efficiency

Exterior

 Stylish body with good lighting system. Good ground clearance. But workmanship shoddy. Bonnet lock plastic cover gave way, wiper spray pad on the bonnet not stuck properly. Tata Motors have agreed to replace. Side rearview mirrors could have been the folding type.

Interior (Features, Space & Comfort)  

Comfortable Interior with good A/C and leg space. Seats front and back comfortable for five adults. Good infotainment system. 

Engine Performance, Fuel Economy and Gearbox

Powerful engine though the torque conversion for the first gear is bit too much. Car moves at 10/15 kph without any acceleration. But engine is noisy. The engine used to stall often initially which was rectified but still even now occasionally the engine raises uncomfortably even with very slight acceleration which takes you by surprise. I get only 9.5/10.5 km/l in city drive even after the dealer and Tata Motors tried their best. Very disappointing when they advertise 17.2  Km/l. Shifting to reverse gear is a problem quite often and shifting to other gears is also noisy.

Ride Quality & Handling

Car gives a comfortable ride quality and driving comfort is also good. But occasionally while taking U turn, I find that the steering does not return automatically.

Final Words

The car has fallen short of my expectation as I was happily using a Honda City for 8 years and went for the Tata Zest after reading the reviews and the supposed to be advanced features developed by Tatas. 

Areas of improvement  

 Workmanship has to improve. And the Engine has to be absolutely silent especially in idling.

 

Good appearance, ground clearance, music sys. Comfy Interiors. Engine power good.V. Poor mileage in city, Gear shift not good, Engine noisy, Rattling in rough road.