Picking the right car for my senior citizen dad

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If your usage volition beryllium lone for play past petrol car would beryllium a amended prime past diesel.
Also, petrol car would beryllium cheaper.

I would suggest to look retired for Ford Fiesta/Classic arsenic these person debased resale worth and amusive to drive.

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You person partially answered your query yourself. Pick a 2012 oregon newer Honda City with astir 50K successful mileage and you volition beryllium bully for different 2-3 years. You are successful NCR country which is benignant of the Holy City wrong India for utilized cars. I purchased a 2011 City for your fund and it had lone 43K connected successful erstwhile bought. I americium 6'2" and I bask the abstraction and the thrust prime of the car.

Recommending 2012+ City exemplary due to the fact that determination was a refresh of the exemplary successful that twelvemonth and caller features wherever added. GC was besides enhanced successful 2012.

Alternatively you tin prime a Corolla but you volition person to wage much for it and it volition beryllium not arsenic amusive to thrust arsenic the City. But past you get the bid of caput with it. If looking for newer ones, you tin trust connected a Toyota Etios Petrol arsenic good but that volition beryllium connected your taste. It is simply a boring but precise reliable car.

I don't spot a request to spell beyond these 3 unless you privation to instrumentality a hazard with attraction costs oregon physique quality.

-Sunil

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A utilized Maruti DZire (1st gen) is the champion and safest enactment successful my sentiment some successful presumption of fund arsenic good arsenic operational costs and maintenance.
Maintenance costs of Honda are a spot connected the costly broadside unless you determine to work it from a trustworthy garage.

Here's an fantabulous thread connected lateral upgrading (theoretically it's akin to buying a utilized car)- http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/buying...-car-less.html

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Tata Manza Petrol has precise debased resale value, hence is simply a Big sedan which you tin get for cheap, downside being its not precise powerfull and neither is it substance businesslike but is simply a bully car overall.

In your range, you tin besides get a 10 twelvemonth aged Toyota Corolla.
How astir a Skoda Rapid petrol oregon a VW Vento, I americium definite you volition get tons of them wrong 3-4 lakhs range.

If you don't similar Dzire, effort for Old Baleno which comes successful 1.6 Petrol. This is simply a Maruti but dissimilar astir Maruti's and is simply a truly bully 2nd manus buy.

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With a 4 lakh fund successful Delhi I would suggest a 2011/early 2012 petrol Verna oregon City. Both of these cars person bully engines and decent features (verna was overmuch amended equipped). A person of excavation had purchased a 2005 Honda metropolis successful 2012 with 90K connected the odo. Today, it's done 230k without immoderate issues. He plans connected keeping it till the RC expires successful 2020.

A car with 50-60k kms and a caller acceptable of tyres volition lone request attraction successful the signifier of an yearly service.

In my sentiment a sx4/ fiesta/ manza volition beryllium cheaper to buy, but not to maintain.

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Thanks for the recommendation, though they bash look rather dated.

2012 exemplary for 4 lacs and 50k kms would so beryllium nice. I'll support an eye, thanks!

Can you explicate wherefore petrol would beryllium amended for that usage case? I've heard varied opinions but ne'er recovered factual reasoning from either side. I'll cheque for the Ford, acknowledgment for the reply!

2012 Honda City for that fund seems a spot hard to find, adjacent successful NCR country :( Your woody does look precise sweet, and your tallness is precise adjacent to excavation (I'm conscionable an inch taller), truthful acknowledgment for the reassurance!

I'm not rather a instrumentality of Fiesta's looks, but yea seems similar they could work. Thanks!

Thanks for the info. DZire seems rather popular, though I can't get myself to similar the looks of it :( Do you cognize of immoderate trustworthy garages for Honda's servicing successful New Delhi?

I forgot Skoda entirely! I'll cheque those too. I've looked astatine the Ventos and truly bash similar some, but the ones I liked aren't successful New Delhi country :/ I wonderment if getting them shipped from MH to present would beryllium a omniscient idea.

And Baleno is simply a hatchback, no?

Thanks for the info, hadn't thought of the Verna till now. An other acceptable of tyres should beryllium wrong 25k, right?

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4 Yokohama/ Goodyear/ Falken tyres wrong 20k for verna and 18k for city.

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That's wherefore I mentioned - OLD BALENO, which has 1.6 Petrol and is simply a 3 container sedan.

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Hello BHPians,

Posting this thread to assistance maine prime the close car for my begetter who is successful his aboriginal sixties.

Context: Need to regenerate the aged 2008 Tata Indica Xeta with a fuss escaped reliable utilized sedan.

History: Dad has been driving for astir 45 years present and is rather the enthusiast. The household has had it's just stock of cars since the 1960s. Dad started driving successful the precocious 70s connected grandpa's Amby and Fiat. This continued till the precocious 80s erstwhile helium acquired a MM540 successful 1987 which was accompanied by the Fiat. 1993, helium bought an Omni and 1995 an Esteem. Drove them a batch for enactment and leisure. 1999 helium acquired a Daewoo Cielo which continued till 2008. Eventually owed to fiscal constraints during the aboriginal and mid 2000s, the sedans paved mode for basal hatches similar the M800 and Wagon R.

Driving style: Having driven sedans each his life, dada perfectly loves this conception with the debased centre of gravity and bully handling. He enjoyed redlining the cars and cornering them. With property and downgrades successful cars, yet his driving patterns evolved. While occasionally driving my Carens, helium loathes the turbo lag, and handling owed to it's precocious halfway of gravity and assemblage roll, having being accustomed to little slung cars for decades.

Current Garage: The existent store comprises of the pursuing 3 cars.

1. 2023 Kia Carens 1.4 TGDI: I acquired this past twelvemonth arsenic an upgrade from my Tiago. This is my regular thrust to bureau arsenic good arsenic household outings. Takes attraction of each road responsibilities currently. The archetypal 'powerful' car I bought aft 17 years of driving underpowered cars.
   
2. 2019 Tata Tiago 1.2 P: This 1 got passed connected to the amended fractional aft the Carens arrived. Currently being utilized for regular bureau duties.
   
3. 2008 Tata Indica Xeta 1.2 P: Oldest 1 successful the garage, this is the 1 to beryllium replaced owing to its age. It's dad's existent regular drive. The usage is constricted with dada being retired. Typically involves visiting friends and realtives astir the metropolis and the occasional sojourn to locations connected the outskirts of the city. While reliability has been bully and it ne'er faced a breakdown till date, emblematic property related niggles are evident. Mechanically, it hasn't faced immoderate failures arsenic specified and did service good with regular portion replacements. In 2024, it feels rather outdated with the unrefined underpowered engine, dense steeting and clutch, deficiency of features.

Need for a replacement: With the Indica being excessively aged and outdated, I decided to get a caller car for dad. The requirements are arsenic follows.

1. Usage Pattern: Yearly moving would beryllium low, little than 4000 km per year. The car would not beryllium serving immoderate regular duties and beryllium utilized chiefly for leisure. This would impact the emblematic metropolis usage 2 times a week and the occasional outings to destinations successful the 250 km radius of Pune. Number of radical successful the car would alteration from 2 successful the metropolis to 4 for road duties.
   
2. Segment: Looking for a C2 conception sedan successful particular. It suits his driving benignant well, and with a MPV and hatch successful the family, the sedan would complement them well. The footwear would beryllium utile during outstation trips.
   
3. Fuel: Has to beryllium petrol considering the debased usage and easiness of maintenance.
   
4. Reliability and easiness of maintenance: It needs to beryllium reliable and fuss escaped to maintain. Don't privation dada to beryllium moving from pillar to station for work and spares. Planning to clasp connected to the car for astir 5 years, truthful unwilling to compromise connected these parameters.
   
5. Suspension: Preferably connected the softer broadside considering the information of roads successful and astir Pune, positive it would beryllium much comfy keeping successful caput the property of occupants.
   
6. New/Used: Considering the constricted usage, it won't marque consciousness to walk much connected a caller C2 conception car. So looking for utilized options.
   
7. Age: This is simply a parameter connected which I americium not excessively sure. Need inputs connected what property would beryllium due considering the request connected hand. With the existent budget, I recovered astir cars successful the 2016-2017 range.
   
8. Features: Need not beryllium a higher variant. Base +1 oregon mid variant would suffice. Touch screens, AA/ACP oregon different features perceived to beryllium 'fancy' by a emblematic elder national are not required.
   
9. Budget: Have placed a headdress astatine 6 lacs currently. Considering the debased usage, spending higher would not beryllium pragmatic. Dont caput spending little though.

Cars successful consideration: As of now, my hunt is mostly restricted to the 4th gen City and the Ciaz, though I americium unfastened to different suggestions. City seems a amended lucifer considering prices akin to the 'relatively dull' Ciaz. My lone interest would beryllium regarding niggles and outgo of attraction peculiarly for the 4th gen. Would the Ciaz beryllium much fuss free? Other options vaguely considered are the erstwhile gen Verna. Must constituent retired 1 thing. Used car prices successful today's script look rather high.

Eliminated options: Cars with precocious mileage nearing 6 digits. Not assured buying Germans.

I americium unfastened to hold for a fewer months to find the close car. There is nary hurry to get the car. Would emotion to perceive your suggestions.

Thanks,
Rajvardhan