Just made the payment for a 'pearl metallic arctic white' 2008 suzuki swift, VXI.
Should take delivery of the baby sometime in the first week of February.
The color choices I had was white and white (just had 2 vehicles in stock, and any other color takes 2 months to come in) - didn't want to lock in money, and stay put without a vehicle for a long time.
Minus ABS, minus stereo system, minus alloys its still a pretty decent package.
Totally love the cute looking gear knob, and its enjoyable clicking gear shifts. Found it a little heavy to handle in stop and go traffic, on a vehicle that had run over 25k kms. I do not like the band-aid sized rear windscreen, its really annoying while parking, even for someone like me who has been driving for over a decade.
Has a raspy feel to the engine (the same one as that on the esteem with slightly different aspiration, and a different tranny), and I must say I want to rev up the engine over 4500 rpm to unleash each and every one of the 87 ponies underneath the hood.
I still don't quite get the fact that the Suzuki sport package, (the two-door box-car) sells for 11.5k Quid in the UK, and has a really well-put together package altogether while we skimp on the interoirs with really cheap looking plastics, and garish upholstery.
The 2008 swift (costs 7k more) has a modified front and rear bumper, with the tail light stop lamps modified a tad on the outside. On the inside, the cloth upholstery gets a minor makeover, and a digital clock moulded into the facia is a small, albiet welcome addition.
I dropped by Pratham Motors, Sarjapura ORR, Bangalore for not more than 10 minutes to buy the vehicle. I am pretty sure its one of the easiest deals the salesperson has ever made in her life.
Accessories, if you can call them that include a car perfume, mats, mudflaps, leather steering wheel cover, sun film (garware) - can be bumped up for a price.
So more updates on the cute brute later next week. Makes for some good weekend running-in in the backroads of Sarjapura where I live.
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