Safari 2015 to Safari 2024 - Perspective of a Safari Storme owner moving to the new Safari!

So I yet took the plunge and got the Safari Dark Edition ACC+ 4 days back. I was driving a Safari Storme for much than 9 years and planned to support it for different 6-8 months earlier parting ways with it, but unluckily past period the AC conked disconnected and I felt it was time. I sadly fto her spell past month. I drove her for 150K KMs and person the astir cherished memories with her!

Background

I had been looking for a suitable replacement for my Storme for rather a portion but conscionable couldn?t find the car successful my fund which pulled astatine the heartstrings similar the Storme did. I had intimately followed the motorboat and consequent journeys of the 3 cars prominently - XUV 7OO, Scorpio N and New Safari.

XUV 7OO is simply a large car mechanically, with amended engines than the Safari but the looks ne'er appealed to me. So, I waited.

Test drove Scorpio N but felt it was excessively cramped for its size and the immense size conscionable didn?t construe into abstraction inside, particularly compared to the Storme. So, I waited immoderate more.

Test drove the pre facelift Safari and was underwhelmed to beryllium honest. The exterior had started showing its property and the interiors, with that atrocious surface and infotainment, were precise meh. More wait!

: I?m benignant of a Tata loyalist and person owned 4 Tata cars implicit the past 20 years oregon so! I?ve been pursuing the Tata travel since they launched the Indica successful 1998 and person followed each their products precise closely. So people I?d been excited ever since I saw the H5X conception successful Auto Expo backmost successful 2018 and followed the car done the motorboat and its consequent iterations. Same for the New Safari, since it was called Buzzard, and was waiting for the close iteration earlier giving it a superior look. And that iteration was the 2023 facelift.

First Impressions!

My views are mostly keeping successful caput my erstwhile ride(Safari Storme), since it?s earthy for maine to comparison each facet of the car with a wide notation constituent successful mind, including my musculus representation since 9 years is simply a agelong time!

1. NO glitches/ niggles, yet! It was astir arsenic if I was expecting immoderate mistake oregon the different to popular up the infinitesimal I pressed that ignition button! But thankfully, the car ran without immoderate mistake successful the 4 hours that I?ve driven it implicit 4 drives successful huffy Mumbai postulation with rains.

2. Driving presumption - I americium coming from the Safari Storme and the driving presumption of that beast was thing else! I ne'er felt fatigued aft driving that car for hours and hours astatine a stretch, the presumption from the spot was astonishing and it was terribly casual to manoeuvre due to the fact that of the large visibility each around. So the caller Safari had BIG shoes to capable successful this regard. Unfortunately, I?m yet to find a driving presumption that clicks for me. While I knew that it won?t beryllium arsenic commanding arsenic the Storme and I?ve made bid with it, I inactive request to find the champion imaginable presumption here.

3. Engine and drive: I consciousness the motor vibrations are minimal and I truly don?t consciousness them portion the car is stationary. I consciousness and perceive the grunt portion accelerating but successful a bully way! Haven?t yet got a accidental to spell beyond 30-40 kmph(Just Mumbai things!) yet truthful volition not remark overmuch connected the 3 digit velocity behaviour.

4. Ride and suspension: The car feels coagulated and truly good enactment together, and it comes done portion driving connected atrocious roads. Yes, the thrust is connected the steadfast broadside but I conjecture that?s however an SUV thrust should be. Obviously, there?s hardly immoderate bodyroll compared to the Storme which had brainsick magnitude of assemblage rotation owed to its precocious halfway of gravity.

5. Infotainment : Oh that screen! It?s everything I thought it would beryllium aft speechmaking and proceeding universally bully things astir it! It?s responsive, intuitive and the show amazingly crisp! Surely a benchmark successful this segment. To apical it each off, the euphony strategy is fantastic, and I haven?t adjacent gotten astir to tweaking the settings yet!
I person a question present though, I work connected this thread that the infotainment taxable and ambient lighting for the Dark Edition is antithetic from the different variants. What?s the quality exactly?

6. Headlights: One happening that?s acold from awesome successful the car. It astir begs for amended headlights. Not definite what Tata was thinking!

7. Build, Fit and finish: Frankly, I wasn?t expecting overmuch since I?ve been a Tata lawsuit from its Indica days and I cognize it?s not Tata?s beardown suit! But I was pleasantly surprised! Apart from precise fewer outgo cutting bits - the printing connected the power stalks is horrible -I deliberation they?ve done a bully occupation and car feels premium. Love the thud of the beforehand doors!

8. Delivery and booking: Buying a car from Tata is simply a learning experience! And each clip you larn caller things astir quality behaviour, spot maine I cognize since this is my 5th Tata car! This clip besides it was the accustomed - overcommitment, erratic responses, and nether par transportation acquisition - my car was delivered without footmats! And they inactive don?t person it 3 days aft delivery!
While they benignant of redeem themselves each clip aft a mates of escalations but you request to escalate nevertheless. Every. Single. Time!

9. The Key ? The Storme cardinal was ohio truthful heavy! It felt precise solid. The facelift Safari has a larger cardinal but feels flimsy and is precise light.

So that?s that for now. I cognize it?s aboriginal days but it?s a bully start! Will support posting my experiences, acknowledgment for reading!