Dezire: Value for money

Hi

I bought my Dezire Vdi 4 months back and have driven it 8k kms. the car gives me a good mileage of around 18 in city with 40% of journey with AC on. Overall, the car is very good.

Some of the good features of the car are:

1 The car gives you excellent mileage.

2 The car is absolutly comfortable for 5 people

3 The engine is very smooth and peppey with very good pick up. It actually shoots the car after an RPM of 2000.

4 The boot space if simply HUGE

5 The AC is great

However, a few things that i still see as an opportunity are:

1 even when you are buying a Sedan and spending a little extra to get it, still you dont get a simple defogger on the rear glass.

2 The suspension lacks the refinement. In a new car, i expect that i will not feel small jerks inside my car at all. Even in new maruti 800, you dont feel small small jerks at all. But in this car, you do get the dagg-dagg sound when it goes over a breaker or small path holes on the road.

3 The gear shifting is not very smooth. Again, you get a kind of dagg-dagg sound when you shift the gears.

But i am sure that the 3 improvement points that i have written are not that significant to be bothere about. Look at the positives of the car and when combined with the brand name Maruti, you definatly get a good value for money. After all, the car has got a good long waiting and people still find worth in waiting for so long.