2 months ago
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Current car:
The existent car, a 3rd procreation Honda City automatic, is present 12 years old. I bought it utilized successful 2019 erstwhile it had lone 45,000 kilometers connected it. It presently has 95,000 kilometers. It has served maine well, proving to beryllium highly reliable, convenient, and an unthinkable worth for money. The lone drawback is its suspension. While the car could inactive past for different 10 years, I?m conscionable bored of it.
Purpose:
I would emotion to spell connected agelong trips with my family. I've started doing this precocious and would similar to bash it much often and for longer distances. Daily commute is astir 10 KMs. I americium consenting to splurge a small and indulge 
Budget
- Budget: 35 lakhs is comfortable, 50 lakhs is simply a stretch.
- Social Signaling: I cognize it's silly but I?m mindful of societal signaling. An Audi would beryllium implicit the top. I similar the Jeep Compass due to the fact that it?s bully without looking excessively expensive.
Shortlist:
- Jeep Compass - 35
- Audi A4 - 55
- Kodiaq - 48
- Audi Q3 - 55
- BYD Seal - 55
- BYD Atto 3 - 30
- Tiguan - 43
Needs, wants and desires
- Safety: A apical priority.
- Handling: I?m nuts astir cars with large handling. My archetypal car was a Skoda Rapid 1.6 TDI, and I loved it. I crave cars with choky handling.
- Suspension: No cars with a boat-like feeling. I request cleanable suspension tuning.
- Comfort: Must beryllium comfortable, ideally with features that assistance with question sickness. It's not opposed to my erstwhile request of choky handling. I mean uncomfortable successful the "Thar" way
- Size: I dislike long, ample cars. I didn?t bask driving the Honda Accord. We?re a household of three, truthful we don?t request a large car.
- Power: The more, the better. I?m not obsessed with velocity oregon 0-60 times nether 8 seconds, but I emotion that occasional push-you-into-your-seat acceleration.
- Reliability: Stating the obvious, but I don?t privation to hazard being stranded ever. A small other attraction outgo should beryllium fine
- Speed: 120-140 km/h is my perfect driving velocity connected good, bare highways. I thrust precise cautiously successful the city.
- Comfortable Seats: Proper thigh and lumbar enactment is important -- we?re aging.
- Interiors: Nice interiors are important. I similar beige but tin unrecorded with black; grey is simply a no-go.
- Must-Have Features: Apple/Android CarPlay, sunroof, each information features, due lights, 6-8 airbags, and a large dependable strategy would marque the woody sweeter
- Nice-to-Have Features: ADAS (possibly?), ventilated seats, ambient lighting (daughter loves this), cruise control, 360-degree camera, leather seats.
- Mileage: Doesn?t substance *that* much. My yearly driving is little than 15k, mostly astir 10-12k.
To EV oregon not to EV
- I would emotion to person an EV arsenic a 2nd car, but I?m not acceptable for it to beryllium my superior conveyance conscionable yet.
- My bureau has ample charging stations, truthful arsenic agelong arsenic I'm successful the city, charging isn't an issue. Atto's ~350 km scope is much than capable for my needs.
- I emotion the powerfulness and quietness of EVs. I similar to beryllium an aboriginal adapter of exertion excessively
- The Atto offers unthinkable worth for money, and the driving acquisition of the Seal was exceptional.
Used Car conundrum
- You spot I bought my existent car utilized truthful I americium not alien to the idea. But, and it's a large but, it was a Honda and 3rd gen City - a car known for its reliability and agelong word ownership. I americium besides mentally blocked connected spending much than 30L connected a utilized car. To beryllium honest, and I americium acceptable to alteration my opinion, I don't spot galore great, reliable options successful the utilized segment.
- I americium besides outraged by the utilized car pricings. How travel a caller Compass costs 35L and a 3 twelvemonth aged utilized one, driven for 30k KM, is quoted for 28L! I recognize it for a Toyota oregon Honda, it decidedly doesn't marque consciousness for a Jeep, oregon Germans.
Following is my unfiltered sentiment connected each the cars I person evaluated. You spot I person analyzed mode excessively overmuch and wholly confused close now!
Compass
Fits the measure with large suspension, physique quality, and high-speed handling. The acceleration from a standstill isn?t large but improves astatine higher speeds, aligning with GTO's 7/10 standing connected the gearbox. However, it lacks paddle shifters oregon driving modes, and the backmost seats don?t person capable headroom, adjacent for idiosyncratic 5'10". The car is besides small, though it?s presently disposable with large discounts.
Also, selling does play connected our minds, doesn?t it? Compass is pitched arsenic a manner conveyance for adventure-seekers, which appeals to my mid-life crisis!
Audi Q3
Mind-blowing handling, acceleration, and braking?more than capable car for me. There are a fewer missing features, but thing I can't unrecorded without. Concerns see the costly pricing contempt dense discounts, societal signaling, and aboriginal attraction costs, truthful basically, it comes down to money. I?m besides disquieted astir the perchance hard suspension. Daughter connected the backmost spot did not similar the drive. I liked it but not arsenic overmuch to agelong my fund truthful far.
Audi A4
Mostly akin to Q3, but I recovered it unusual to consciousness steer portion cornering. It was a marque caller car and I drove it for a agelong time. Somehow, the car was not precise convincing. Daughter, again connected the backmost seat, astir vomited, though I judge I was driving it excessively hard connected sports setting. Again, astir apt not worthy stretching the budget
BYD Atto 3
A cute, businesslike car that drives good for its price, though I noticed immoderate instrumentality rotation during acceleration from a standstill. The physique prime and abstraction are great, and it?s brainsick that I tin get it for conscionable 25L! I?m good with the funky interiors?my girl really loved the quirky guitar strings. However, the Compass handles overmuch better. I would person bought this arsenic a metropolis EV successful a heartbeat.
BYD Seal
Mind-blowing interiors, design, and acceleration, but it doesn?t look precise applicable for a family. Ground clearance mightiness beryllium an issue, and it?s some costly and an EV.
Volvo XC40 Recharge
It?s a large car but doesn?t consciousness peculiar for its price. The backmost spot has debased thigh enactment and headroom. Plus, it?s costly and an EV.
Tata Safari/Harrier
Probably the best-looking cars, but I didn?t bask driving them much. They connection ample abstraction and practicality, and the terms is reasonable, truthful that?s a positive.
Mahindra XUV 700
Similar to what I consciousness astir Safari, but the looks. I did not peculiarly bask driving it.
Ioniq 5
Great interiors, design, and practicality, but excessively costly for what it offers close now. The Seal is overmuch amended for a akin price.
Skoda Kodiaq
Very applicable and sensible. My erstwhile acquisition with Skoda work wasn?t bad, and the car was truly great. The past 2 seats person constricted usage, but they inactive marque the car big. The Q3 astatine 55L, compared to the Kodiaq astatine 50L, is acold much appealing.
Hyundai Tucson
Nothing peculiarly stands out. It seems similar a boring, middle-of-the-road choice. The showroom had an aged car for a trial drive, and it inactive didn?t consciousness peculiarly charismatic astatine this terms point.
VW Tiguan
The hard suspension is simply a concern, but it seems much palatable astatine 42L. It?s not excessively acold distant from the Compass successful appeal. Test thrust pending.
Questions
- Do I request AWD? I americium not going for disconnected roading, but does it marque immoderate quality to handling, driving acquisition and information connected regular highways and atrocious roads?
- Am I missing immoderate car successful my evaluation? Which car tin I look astatine the utilized market?
- Which 1 bash you recommend?
