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Well here is my review of Bavaria Motors - BMW Dealer Pune and Goa
It all started because I was searching for the http://www.theautomotiveindia.com/forums/automotive-shopper/4412-replacement-siena.html
As you may be aware, I was stuck with 3 cars:
http://www.theautomotiveindia.com/forums/ownership-reviews/1537-fiat-siena-1-6-elx.html
http://www.theautomotiveindia.com/forums/ownership-reviews/1310-red-hot-alto-spice.html
http://www.theautomotiveindia.com/f...1-p3t3rs-crystal-white-i10-kappa2-sportz.html
The Alto was a real troublesome car and I was desperate to get rid of it. I had already picked up the i10 for my wife. The Siena was nearing 10 years and 85K Kms. Though it was serving well without any problem, I felt I needed to upgrade.
I was looking at the logical upgrade to a Siena. I considered the Civic, Laura, Superb, Sonata and Cruze. I was doing a bit of research on the internet. That's when I came across a lot of reviews of people upgrading from the above mentioned cars to the big 3 Germans. So I just thought "Can I"?
I have a habit of jumping. When I had to buy my first bike, I skipped the 100cc segment and jumped straight to the RD 350. When I had to buy my first car, I skipped the 800 and jumped to the Uno (800, Zen & Uno were the only hatches available then). So I thought why not give the Laura segment a skip and jump to the luxury brands.
I started by calling up Alcon Mercedes Benz, Goa, Bavaria Motors Pune (BMW) and Audi Pune for details. All 3 were quick to mail me the brochures and quotations. I was on board a ship so I made it clear not to send attachments to my ships id. I had to wait till I got internet access to get the attachments. BMW and Audi didn't have dealerships in Goa but they had sales executives to handle Goa. I was given their contact numbers by their respective dealerships in Pune. Mr. Straton D'Souza (BMW) and Mr. Tushar Bhandari (Audi). Meanwhile Alcon Mercedes Benz assigned Ms. Saniya Naik to attend to me. I gathered all the information and made a excel chart to compare the 3 cars. I also did a rough 5 year cost of ownership calculation. I was most impressed by the Audi and thought that I would go in for this car. As usual my sign off got delayed and had to be satisfied with email communication with the 3 dealers. During this time I was told that BMW (Bavaria Motors) was opening the Goa Showroom in Verna (quite close to my place). Suddenly I stopped receiving any communication from Audi. Tushar's phone was also diverted. I got quite irritated with the attitude of Audi. Then suddenly one day a I receive a mail from Tushar. So he's finally woken up, I was saying to myself. But then something was wrong with his mail. He's sent me a BMW brochure and quotation. Is he out of his mind. It took me a minute to realise that he has left Audi and joined BMW. I quickly mailed him that I was already in touch with Bavaria and Straton was handling my case.
Eventually I returned to Goa. Now for the test drives.
To be continued...
Mods please note, I will be writing this review in parts. People will post comments. Once the review is done I will report the last post and request you to put all the sections of the review as back to back posts.
It all started because I was searching for the http://www.theautomotiveindia.com/forums/automotive-shopper/4412-replacement-siena.html
As you may be aware, I was stuck with 3 cars:
http://www.theautomotiveindia.com/forums/ownership-reviews/1537-fiat-siena-1-6-elx.html
http://www.theautomotiveindia.com/forums/ownership-reviews/1310-red-hot-alto-spice.html
http://www.theautomotiveindia.com/f...1-p3t3rs-crystal-white-i10-kappa2-sportz.html
The Alto was a real troublesome car and I was desperate to get rid of it. I had already picked up the i10 for my wife. The Siena was nearing 10 years and 85K Kms. Though it was serving well without any problem, I felt I needed to upgrade.
I was looking at the logical upgrade to a Siena. I considered the Civic, Laura, Superb, Sonata and Cruze. I was doing a bit of research on the internet. That's when I came across a lot of reviews of people upgrading from the above mentioned cars to the big 3 Germans. So I just thought "Can I"?
I have a habit of jumping. When I had to buy my first bike, I skipped the 100cc segment and jumped straight to the RD 350. When I had to buy my first car, I skipped the 800 and jumped to the Uno (800, Zen & Uno were the only hatches available then). So I thought why not give the Laura segment a skip and jump to the luxury brands.
I started by calling up Alcon Mercedes Benz, Goa, Bavaria Motors Pune (BMW) and Audi Pune for details. All 3 were quick to mail me the brochures and quotations. I was on board a ship so I made it clear not to send attachments to my ships id. I had to wait till I got internet access to get the attachments. BMW and Audi didn't have dealerships in Goa but they had sales executives to handle Goa. I was given their contact numbers by their respective dealerships in Pune. Mr. Straton D'Souza (BMW) and Mr. Tushar Bhandari (Audi). Meanwhile Alcon Mercedes Benz assigned Ms. Saniya Naik to attend to me. I gathered all the information and made a excel chart to compare the 3 cars. I also did a rough 5 year cost of ownership calculation. I was most impressed by the Audi and thought that I would go in for this car. As usual my sign off got delayed and had to be satisfied with email communication with the 3 dealers. During this time I was told that BMW (Bavaria Motors) was opening the Goa Showroom in Verna (quite close to my place). Suddenly I stopped receiving any communication from Audi. Tushar's phone was also diverted. I got quite irritated with the attitude of Audi. Then suddenly one day a I receive a mail from Tushar. So he's finally woken up, I was saying to myself. But then something was wrong with his mail. He's sent me a BMW brochure and quotation. Is he out of his mind. It took me a minute to realise that he has left Audi and joined BMW. I quickly mailed him that I was already in touch with Bavaria and Straton was handling my case.
Eventually I returned to Goa. Now for the test drives.
To be continued...
Mods please note, I will be writing this review in parts. People will post comments. Once the review is done I will report the last post and request you to put all the sections of the review as back to back posts.