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The Hunt:
Its been going to be two years since i took delivery of my GT TDI. This thread is about the ownership experience, the Modifications i did on my GT and the modifications planned for future to make it a complete Pocket Rocket.To summarize its the journey so far with my Candy white polo GT TDI.
I zeroed in on Polo after a long 2 year search for a new car. In between had given booking amount to buy a Maruti suzuki Ritz and later after a year we cancelled and given that amount to book the Polo GT TDI.
At first we were looking to buy a car with a Maximum Budget of 5 lakhs in Third quarter of 2013. Dad wanted to buy a Maruti for obvious reasons such as low maintenance and high resale value and most importantly the service centre is just 3 km away from Home.
We started with Wagon-R and and later end up giving booking amount for Ritz during First Quater of 2014. Then due to some financial issues it got extended and by the End of 2014 we decided to get the Ritz by 2015 March as the offers will be good at that time as its the year end closing sales offers.
Then VW launched the New Polo with 1.5 tdi Engine. I have always loved the soild build quality and high speed stability of Polo , only the 1.2 3 cyl engines was the problem for me. We took a test drive and loved it. Now we had to push the budget more and decided to get the lower Trendline Varient. But later decided to comfortline as it offers little more features and ABS. In meantime we had numerous test drives and were in touch with the SE. I told him to let me know if any offers comes by March 2015. We also TD'd Hyundai I20, But i loved the Polo More for the driving Feel. No way the I20 is bad. Its that its not for me.
How the competition fared:
#I20 is for a family Which needs the backseat space and to accommodate 3 in back in comfort. The steering is light, and has numerous features but suspiciously the Avg FE and DTE is missing. In new design, Its looks classy too.
#Punto is a car with solid tank like build quality only let down by the weight and its ergonomics. Yes its the best to drive because of that hydraulic steering but neither dad nor me could get a comfortable seating position in punto.
#Polo ticks almost all boxes. Its safe with ABS and Airbags, Solid Build Quality and Have enough features we would need and a reasonably large boot in the segment. And we both enjoyed the driving experience too.
Final Call:
So Polo it is. SA called up in March saying there is a cash discount offer going on for polo and with that we could get Highline at the price of Comfortline. We planned to keep the cars for 6-7 years , hence decided to get the Highline as it was in the budget even though its stretched. And When we went to Book the car, I casually asked about the GT TDI as there was a one on display and he said same offer is there for GT, and its the first time VW offering discounts for GT. I was too tempted and said dad lets book GT TDI instead of HIghline. Dad was like why you need more power , even the normal polo is powerful for our kerala highways. Are you going for any race events?. I convinced him saying already we stretched this much and getting Highline so why wont we get the best under 10lakh by paying a 50k more. Though he was not convinced we did book the polo GT TDI in Candy White colour. (I wanted Flash red though, but compromised the colour for GT as dad wanted White)
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