When in doubt listen to your wife! She said, “buy me what I like and you are equally okay with; at half the Toyota Fortuner money.”
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inability to replace the perceived value of my Bear.
I started this thread with an anecdote on issues lining up post the warranty was up, and thus the want to replace. However, I ended up writing a short story.
I stand by what I said, I have been unable to replace the perceived value the XUV5OO offers. I paid around nineteen in December’18 and for the same money I have no relevant choices to select from. Add a couple of lakhs still the same, add another ten I could add another 2OO, aka XUV7OO. With all due credit to Mahindra for the upgrades or perhaps reinventing the XUV, it remained in feel and poise pretty much the same as XUV5OO, a bit more powerful, more techier, much subtle and sobered if I may say so. Neither me nor my wife could see the XUV7OO as an upgrade and, so that closes the thirties figure.
Add another ten, Hycross seemed to tick most things needed and miss out on all things wanted. Also, don’t miss the commanding wait time, more commanding than the actual vehicle itself.
Add another ten, alarm bells! Fiscal prudence! If and buts of why not to spend, oh! darn! dear ArB is way past this and ready to shoot the fiscal wisdom straight into the head this time around. So we go scouting again. Thoroughly impressed by @graaja ‘s thread, pushed Fortuner to top of my list. Liked Gloster as well, though couldn’t clear the mental reliability math. With VW cousins not appealing to us, Fortuner wins hands down.
Do note, in this story I am the one with itch for change however there were cars which was liked by both me and Mrs ArB, namely Virtus, Seltos and Fortuner amongst the lot we drove and checked.
With Fortuner being the chosen one, fiscal prudence raised its ugly head again. I was made to realize, if we replace Bear with Fortuner I will end up scouting for another car in a matter of months considering Mrs ArB’s imminent return to office. And given my proclivity to upgrade, an upgrade on Fortuner would need my kidneys, liver, anything else to sell? When in doubt listen to your wife! Mrs ArB to rescue, buy me what I like and you are equally okay with; at half the Fortuner money. Then wait for Fortuner facelift to replace Bear. Me likey!!
Enter Virtuslike – tick, want – tick, salivating red sedan + dsg does the trick, booking – done, pdi – failed! while the rust in driveshaft may be due to cast iron’s propensity to rusting, three cars with ages from six month to two weeks in stockyard all having an increasing proportion of rust killed the vibe.
Enter Seltoslone remaining gladiator in my journey. Like – tick, want – tick, tick, pdi – tick! So comes the Intense Red Seltos in my tiny little privileged cocoon.
Jungle reference awaits for an healthy mix of concoction.
~ArB
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