Life, from behind the wheel.
A simplistic design can just make things simple. When you open a high set empire state building sized curvy door for a glimpse inside, the designer's creativity takes your imagination to a different level altogether. 72 months had passed, and I had a real difficult time thinking me on the footsteps of that designer. Life was full of wild imagination. Perhaps, wildest than I thought. But then, when you are behind the wheel of your costly gift, you begin to think deep into the imagination on things took shape at first glance.
The arc shaped instrument cluster.
The hooded round AC vents (which were more palatable than the curve in curve out design of the old santro).
The arc shaped upper lips and curves of the dash.
The front placement of the 4 inch speaker grills, to make you listen to bone jarring acoustics straight on your face.
The triangle. In fact, it has 3 triangles.
One for the hazard, one for the defogger, and another for the rear fog light (dummy).
Then, the centre console, for instance.
It has a rectangular shape.
A housing for a single DIN stereo, and below that, hold your breath, ladies and gentlemen, to take you to retro era. Slider controls for HVAC, straight from the 80s.
Err...to make amends for the errands, the AC on/off knob is a circle, with a rotary knob for a 4 speed blower.
Below that, is another circle, for a dummy 12V charging port/cigar lighter.
So, there you go, its influenced by pure mathemagical school of thought. Wild imagination, perhaps?
Or, how does it get wilder than this?
Got a costly heere/zewarat (jewellary) or any valuable item? Tuck beyond underneath the front seat, and you will see a tray popping out. The XS had on both the front seats, while the XO had under the co driver seat only. Not a concern, since one was enough. But, 1+ one was always better, isnt it so?
The front doors look sweet, just touch and feel the interior fabrics, the plastics, everything reeks of top quality. The magazine pockets are large, and are present in only front doors.
The rear doors are bare, plain jane, with just a lame handle to close it from inside. No pockets, no power window controls either.
The front seats in this car are large, comfortable but did lack lumbar support due to less bolster on the sides, compared to that perfect seats the palio and Indica had those days. To make matters worse, legspace management was poor, the high placed seats to compensate for somewhat lack of legroom. Made worse by the pedal placement, which caused pains to the ankles those days. But full marks to Hyundai for providing a handy dead pedal, something which today's costly cars don't possess.
Getting in and out at rear is equally easy, thanks to the tall (famously known as amby like) rear seat, again placed higher than the front seats, like a theatre. Maybe to compensate for the lack of warning systems that the car didnt have, by real time family monitering your speed. The bolstering is again average and underthigh support was an issue, something which was a forte of the rear seats of getz and Indica. Not surprisingly, legspace was below par, compensated by high placement of rear seats, made worse by the placement of power window switches behind the handbrake console. Many a times, we had to make fun by proclaiming it as "first car in class with leg operated window controls". operating it was a pain, you need to bend down and operate, often causing a backache.
All these quirks aside, the car did have amazing boot space for a small kei-car, with rear seats double folding to carry huge cargo.
Now you began to appreciate the nitty gritties of your costly gift, couldn't you imagine-why can't the world be so simple?
Its a designer's wild imagination to dial in public, you know.....