When you look a much expected car in flesh, you always love to fly away with it. But sometimes we run ahead of time. Till a car exclusively for test drive is arranged, we are restricted to do only a smaller test drive. Unfortunately Tata Motors is yet to register an exclusive test drive car.
We made a brief test drive of new Indica vista and here are our findings. When you pass-by the new Indica vista you might fail to notice this as a new one. Tata has carefully kept the same Indica family style. But take a close look you can feel why Tata engineers took so many months of time to bring this car to the market. The smile honeycomb grille is bounded swaparound petal shaped headlamps which is nicely placed on the lines of the bonnet. The headlamps has a small budge at the centre again a nice design touch. A slight central mid ridge on the bonnet is intended to give a V-shaped front but it resembles the styling of palio a product of Tata’s partner Fiat. Open the bonnet you could again seen the Fiat’s popular 1.3L multi jet engine which is coined as quadrajet. The c510 gearbox is also sourced from Fiat. But when the indica’s comfort and convenience combines with Fiat’s technology it could be lethal weapon against the likes of swift and i10.
Though we cannot measure the fuel efficiency of the Indica vista.We are told that the mileage of the Indica vista in city is around 16kmpl and in highway it goes up to 20kmpl. Phenomenal isn’t it. The top speed is found to be over 140kmph and it feels solid even at those high speeds. But the tilt adjustable steering fails to gain weight proportional to the speed. A slight turn of the three spoke steering wheel at those high speeds would be detrimental. Another letdown is the absence of ABS and Airbags in the Indica vista.
But the ride quality, comfort and convenience the Indica vista offers might earn applause even from a Tata critic. While the Indica v2 offered a raw space, the space is intelligently used in the new Indica vista. A glove box that can hold even a laptop, under deck space to hold water bottles,cubbyholes, wide door pockets and 60:40 foldable rear seats can give you the most comfortable journey that even a class above fails to offer. The front bucket seats are comfy, swaparound at some place to offer support ot every parts of your body. The driver seat is height adjustable but the ugly gear knob and large steering wheel might still make few fun loving guys away from the Indica vista. But this is our initial opinion, wait till our complete review for which we spend lotsa time with Indica vista to dig out more about the indica vista.
