Last week, did my first long trip with my grey beauty. A yearly visit to in-laws place near Ratnagiri, in coastal area of Maharashtra(i.e. Konkan).
I used to travel there with my family in our Santro till date. This time we really felt the difference with the Tigor AMT. The ride was super comfortable.
On highways, the car was very stable at 100-120, though I seldom went ahead of 100. With nice 6-lane highway(NH-48) till karad city, I mostly used city mode only, due to my relaxed driving style. Initially I started with M mode, but after seeing FE falling down, switched to city mode. Also used sports mode only in couple of hilly sections. With the sports mode, the car marched ahead with ease in ghats. And city mode made sure that I got very good mileage on this journey. While travelling on state highways, mostly 4-lane ones, I sometimes used M mode for overtaking purpose, though there were no scary moments in using city mode too in this situations.The car handled some bad road patches with ease.
Let me add some pictures now.
Here is the route map -
FE reading till NH-48 (Karad city) using city mode mostly -
Tigor relaxing on a beach near Ratnagiri -
Tigor at a calm, scenic place called Ganeshgule temple.
The final FE figure at the destination at the end of the to-journey was 19. I still consider it as very good, considering the breaks taken due to my little daughter's sickness. While returning too, I got impressive figures of 23.5 on NH-48, till Pune.Till NH-48, it was 18-19 due to some bad roads and traffic. Hoping to better these figures after 3-4 servicings.(currently the 2nd servicing is due now) Overall I really enjoyed driving my Tigor AMT on this trip.