Our budget was 15L, but the benefits of VX over V made us stretch by a lakh to book the VX.
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Sharing my experience and decision making process to arrive at VX CVT:
We moved to Gurgaon in Jan and were on the lookout for a family car, and what better than a Honda City to fulfil the dream of owning 1st car. I have been driving my dad’s i20 in Maharashtra and have done ~70k Kms in 3 yrs timeframe. Was on the lookout for an upgrade in that sense.
- We were clear on getting an automatic, as it would be driven by both – me and my spouse, again no comparison on reliability of Honda CVT engine!
- We didn’t want to wait for 3-4 months due to all kinds of supply chain issues. I had checked with Dee Emm Hyundai, MG road for TD of a Verna but the sales person mentioned 4 months wait time. Dropped the idea without even taking a TD
- Our budget was 15L but the benefits of VX over V (thanks to inputs from you folks on the forum) made us stretch by a lakh to book the VX – Meteoroid Grey Metallic color
These pointers helped us narrow down on Honda City and 2 day delivery promise by the sales person made it easy for us.
Experience with dealership so far:
Sales person (Neeraj) has complete knowledge and is smart in hedging benefits of a trim basis our requirements
I went there last weekend for a TD and they arranged a TD within mins on ZX CVT. Nothing fancy with the TD!
- Neeraj promised a 2 day delivery for any trim we would choose for.
- Total discount of INR 25k – 10k offered by Honda on their website, 5k corporate discount and dealership agreed for another 10k. Neeraj pushed for it with his manager (something related to TL). Other sales folks were surprised he managed to get that extra 10k for us
- Neeraj agreed for a PDI and will be arranging the car this Sunday before doing registrations with RTO
- He was proactive in showing stocks excel and there were 5 units of VX CVT (all manufactured in Feb) available with the dealership. He even went a mile extra in getting us the latest manufactured car – 8 days earlier, as per the excel.
- Loan process was hassle free. ICICI guy came to our place and got it done. It was pre-approved (7.25% RoI – which to my information is a good rate)
Out and out, good experience thus far. Excited to get our first car home next week! Cheers and Thank you to everyone for their valuable comments to make this swift for us.
I am now looking out for following suggestions:
- A good place to get ceramic coating done on the new car – in gurgaon
- A good tyre stockist to upgrade to michelin primacy 4 205/55/16. Read across posts on the forum that this is the best option to upgrade. Any views on 205/50 R16?
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