Skoda cars Special Reports

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If you are planning to buy a car and haven’t been able to zero down on one, here are five cars that we think are the best.

The D-segment offerings have become the go-to vehicles for those looking to buy a luxurious diesel car that happens to have the convenience of an automatic gearbox. This explains why cars like the Skoda Octavia and the Hyundai Elantra are seen in such great numbers on the road. Lately though, manufacturers have been toying with the idea of putting the highly desirable diesel-automatic combo in crossovers and compact SUVs. Mahindra, for one, has just added an automatic gearbox option for the XUV 500.

The Indian car market is full of mundane, economy-minded cars built to deliver maximum kilometres to a litre and be reliable in the long run. And as one would expect, these vehicles can hardly be deemed as collectibles and, in fact, are bought to serve basic transportation needs. That being said, there have been a handful of interesting and seriously cool variants that often redefine the way we look at regular cars.

We have in the fray here, the C-segment sedans fighting it out to make it to the top of the CarWale list and they include the age old Verna that underwent a plastic surgery in Europe to Marutis latest challenger for the Honda City, the Ciaz. While the Germans: Vento and Rapid have carved a niche for themselves, the Sunny and Scala siblings were the first ones to give us Indians a taste of a big sedan for less than 10 lakh. The Fiesta, though, is focussed on the enthusiast with its agile dynamics while having a fling with Aston Martin. The comparison on the aforementioned parameters has been done between top-of-the-line diesel manual variants to select the six best sedans on sale as of today.

It's time to meet the best handling cars once again. But this time round, the fight is for the quickest accelerating and quickest stopping cars with the addition of three new players.