Toyota Etios Liva [2013-2014] User Reviews

Exterior Exteriors are average looking and it cannot be said as one of the besst looking cars in its class. Overall design looks more functional rather than the aesthtics

Interior (Features, Space & Comfort) Best thing about the car is the leg space it provides in both rear and front. Very spacious and comfortable for long journeys. It suits well for tall people as they fit comfortable in both front and rear seats. 

Engine Performance, Fuel Economy and Gearbox One of the best performing and reliable engines I have seen in this class. Have been driving this car for 1.6 years and has completed 30,000+ Kms. Has taken the car through some of the roughest and best roads across the country in some of the worst weather. Has always given the best reliability and performance. Smooth easy to handle.

Ride Quality & Handling Driving is very smooth, gear and clutch smooth and works like a charm. Has been stuck in huge traffic jams and seen cars being overheated and stuck and all. Liva just sails through nicely.

Final Words If looking for a good hatchback which is suited for all Indian road conditions and for the price it offers, this is the best choice.

Areas of improvement Interiors could have been better. Its just plain and lots of plastic. Also the intrior plastic components becomes loose and make noise over a time and has to be tightened and all.

Excellent engine performance, Reliable, Suited for both city and highway drivingInteriors are not good, Not much additional features

There is no question about welcoming or any facilities about showrooms of toyota.its amazing. Very good engine and smooth for riding and give us relaxtion . Its look is ok,but perfomance is excellant. Servicing and maintainance is amazing and best thing is there is very minor maintaince charge. I think this car have lots of merits comapre to demerit. And i think dmerits are unneccesary.

Exterior : Good outlook. the Etios Liva Diesel has sharp styling with a smiling grill. Liva looks more stylish compared to sedan.

The body is not so strong. just by leaning on body, dent occurs.

Interior (Features, Space & Comfort) : Interior is comparetively poor than Swift and i10/20.

Spacious. comfortably can travel 3 people along with a 10-12 year child in back seat.

Very poor seats, looks like RTC bus seats.

 

Engine Performance, Fuel Economy and Gearbox : Cool Engine. Can speed upt o100-120 without any hassel. Milage around 17-19 km/lt. Easy ro shift gears, good pick up.

 

Ride Quality & Handling : very comfortable riding. Easy to handle. Power stearing is so smooth. to be very careful who drove older vehicles. 

 

Final Words :

major complaints : 1) Poor or weak suspension. Accoridng to dealer service personnel, it is not weak. but very sharp return which returns with in 9 seconds !!! (no idea what exactly it is.) But heard  complaints from most of the customers. Gives a THUD noice even when it passes in a small  hump or pathole. No matter how slow you are. 

2) there is no beedings provided for doors. (ofcourse it is provided to the inside the car body). Hence gives a wide gap between door and body. When travelling on dusty road, huge dust gets stored. While cleaning, we should wipe by slighly opening the inner beedings. Gradually beedings will get weaker. 

UNFORTUNATE, AFTER SALES , SERVICE CENTRES DONOT MIND ON CUSTOMERS GREVIENCE SINCE TOYOTA HAVE HUGE CUSTOMER BASE.

OCCASSIONALLY FEELS SORRY FOR LEAVING HUYNDAI FAMILY AFTER 12 YEARS OF COMFORTABLE DRIVING.

 

 

Good style, moderate fuel economypoor Interiors, weak suspension

Exterior Its looks ok.

Interior (Features, Space & Comfort) No boot space, rear seat not good, very cheap interiors, cost cutting evident. No rear folding seats. i fail to understand j variant does not even have a power steering. What segment toyota is putting its Q class hatch in.

Engine Performance, Fuel Economy and Gearbox Tad underpowered, i test drove the i20 1.4 D and 1.2 petrol. Just could not compare it to this piece of junk.

Ride Quality & Handling Ride was just OK. there are better vehicles in the, market.

Final Words These companies take India for granted. What crap are they selling Q class my foot. This is time to wake up and look beyond brand image and blindly go for it. Cost cutting very evident in the car. No quality feel at all. I was really very disspaointed. Had gone with a lot of expactations. I am happy totyota is getting compition at all segments.

Areas of improvement Stop taking Indians for granted and give them cars which really are quality cars.

Just OKCheap quality, power,

Exterior Very nice, excellent looking from front and rear.

Interior (Features, Space & Comfort) Comfort for lond drive, very good safety feature with ABS & EBD.

Engine Performance, Fuel Economy and Gearbox Excellent performance of best in class D4D engine, Optimum BHP to Weight Ratio, Very smooth gear shifting. No noise.

Ride Quality & Handling Very drivability, Safe to drive with ABS and EBD, very smooth handling, Value for money, Toyota brand name.

Final Words Excellent after sale service, Best performance, I have drove about 1100 Km, It is giving fuel economy above 24 KMPL. It is so safe during need harsh braking that it can be controlled from 110 KMPH to Zero within 5mtr with ABS & EBD. Really ABS is a excellent feature for safety point of view.  I strongly understand that nothing is bad with 6.5L on road price for such famous brand. More spacious, very good look from front as well as rear.

Areas of improvement Door fitting mechanism needs to improve.

Excellent fuel economy, Value for Money, Reliable Brand Name, Excellent looking & DesignLight body, More chances to touch on Speed breaker.

Overall quality of the car is very poor, particularly the clutch, looks like we have to change the clutch plates every 2 years (with around 20000 km drive), my latest issue is sudden clutch failure without any symptoms in the middle of the road. Overall very bad clutch. interiors are very poor. I talked to few of my friends who owns liva, they also had the similar issues. Even service center guys are also saying the same thing. I have been driving cars from 1996 in different countries and I have never seen such a bad car particularly from Toyota. Very cheap quality interiors ex: steering wheel cover plate , door interiors fading (color changes), trunk cover is very very very cheap. Biggest problem is clutch , I am not sure why Toyota is not doing anything about it. I WOULD NEVER BUY TOYOTA again .

Exterior Looks good, but the exterior parts are so light that when you lean on the car you will realize it. My 8 year old Zen had similar issue.

Interior (Features, Space & Comfort) Space is the Best thing in this car. Looks very spacious and sometimes it even decieves. Very few features, but frankly I do not miss many as i've upgarded from ZEN LXI where it is featureless car. The noise level gets into the car and could well have been arrested by way of better sealing. When I drove Swift diesel car with the noise level inside the car I never realized until i was told that the car I was driving was a diesel. Tacho meter is sorely missed as the power of the car is not known without the looking at the Tacho.

Engine Performance, Fuel Economy and Gearbox Fantastic engine performance. I have to climb up from my basement parking to come ontomain road. In my Zen car i need to throttle right from word go to move up, but with Liva i just have to climb up very casually and no need to throttle for moving up to main road. Also for 2 Kms from my home the roads are very steep and the car moves without much fuss and without additional acceleration on this road. I could feel loads of difference when compared to my old car (although it looks slightly insensitive to compare a 1000CC petrol car vs 1360CC diesel car). As far the gear box, if you know the right positions you can shift the gears with just 2 fingers. Fuel Economy looks like inside city i am getting 19-20 KMPL with 90% of my drive without AC. Note that the traffic in the routes that i travel daily is relatively lesser as compared to some of the jammed roads in Bangalore. Have not yet tried on highways so far.

Ride Quality & Handling Not many will like the ride quality as the light weight of the car can be easily traced on bad roads. Not much can be said about handling as the car can comfortably clear the high bumpers of Bangalore. There is always thud noise once the left front tyre hits a pothole. When enquired with Service engineer of Nandi Toyota they say that the same will not affect the body of the car. When enquired with them regarding adjustment of the front suspensions, the service engineers said they will not touch it until they get a go ahead from the manufacturer. Note, because of the engine weight on the right front, there is not much of problem to the front right suspension, but the right and left front suspensions are tuned in same manner to handle similar weights, so there is always some thud noise in front left suspension when it hits a pot hole unlike the front right suspension due to lack of weight.

Final Words Liva is not for trendy Gen Y type of people. It is more of a VFM car and people who are in late 30s may like it because it gives safety (Airbag and ABS) with good mileage at this price. 

Areas of improvement  Front suspension need to be tuned according to the load the suspension takes. Interior could have been better. A Tacho would not have harmed Toyota in Diesel cars.

Good Fuel Economy, Smooth driving in city trafficPoor Interior, Interior does not give statisfaction of having paid Rs 7.5 Lacs on-road

Exterior THERE IS NO ISSUE WITH EXTERIORS BUT DOES NOT REFLECT TOYTA STANDARDS , THE WORKMANSHIP AND QUALITY OF MATERIAL USED IS NOT UP TO MARK

Interior (Features, Space & Comfort) SPACE IS THE ONLY THING WHICH ONE CAN SAY IS POSITIVE FOR THE CAR. DOORS ARE SO TIGHT THAT ONE HAS TO APPLY LOT OF PRESSURE TO OPEN EACH DOOR MAY BE THEY HAVE USED INFREIOR QUALITY OF RUBBER GASKETS. SEATS ARE NOT VERY COMFORTABLE

Engine Performance, Fuel Economy and GearboxENGINE IS QUITE RESPONSIVE BUT FUEL ECONOMY IS DEPLORABLE , GEAR SHIFTING IS NOT AT ALL SMOOTH

Ride Quality & Handling SUSPENSIONS ARE LIKE ANY OTHER CAR BUT ON SLIGHTLY HIGH SPEED BRAKERS THE SUSPENSION MAKES THUD SOUND. STEERING IS OK

Final Words THOUGH THE CAR IS SPACIOUS BUT  INFERIORS QUALITY OF RUBBER PLASTIC AND OTHER MATERILS USED IN FABRICATION ARE BIG IRRITANTS

Areas of improvement DOOR ALIGMENT , PROPER QUALITY OF MATERIALS TO BE USED FOR FABRICATION, GEAR BOX TO BE IMPOVED. FUEL ECONOMY TO BE DRASTICALLY IMPROVED.

SPACE GOOD , DRIVING COMFORT OK , AC IS EFFECTIVEDOOR ALIGNMNET VERY POOR , FUEL ECONOMY UNSATISFACTORY

Exterior 

Exterior is good. Paint quality is good

Interior (Features, Space & Comfort) . 

 spacious and very comfertable car in its segment. I have white coloured car and it looks pretty good.

Engine Performance, Fuel Economy and Gearbox 

 powerful and balanced car, good fuel economy . approximately 20 km/l on highway and 17 km/l in city driving with ac on. powerful brake and because of ABS and EBD , the car is very balanced while braking at high speed. My average speed of driving is 80 to 100 km/hr. 

Ride Quality & Handling 

Riding quality is very good. good fuel economy, almost everything is good. 😉😊

 

Final Words

overall very goog car. I puchased the car on 25th december 2013 and till today the car ran 12000 km. I am very much satisfied with the car . I hope my experience will help others.

 

Areas of improvement 

plastic quality of interior , engine noise , clutch should be soft , toyota sevice centre should be opened on sunday also

 

 

good fuel economy, almost everything is goodplastic quality of interior, cluth is a little bit hard, diesel engine noise is a little bit more