I have driven it everywhere – city, traffic, crowded streets, open and crowded highways, expressways, hills – and it has shone everywhere!
BHPian dhruvritzed recently shared this with other enthusiasts:
Updating here after a really long time, just past the first major service that my car has gone through, at 60,000 kms.
It’s been a great journey right through, it’s possibly the best car I could have hoped for at the price it came at. I’m currently at 61200kms and at 3 years and 8 months, I think I’ve driven it a fair bit to have an opinion on the car.
It’s been driven everywhere quite literally, the city, the traffic, crowded streets, open and crowded highways, expressways, and hills. It’s shone everywhere. There is no better size-to-power combo that can beat the stability, poise and do all the things this car does.
To top it all, it gives me 13kmpl all the time with 19+ at sane highway speeds. My daily commute is just 12km but almost 30-35% of this car’s kms have come on the highways where there is nothing that beats it, you can drive it sedately, can rev the nuts out of it, can corner it on your favourite ghats, there’s a smile on your face guaranteed everywhere.
My car is under a 7-year warranty and 5-year service plan with only one free service left, apart from these the first time I paid Audi was at 60,000 kms for Rear Brake pads, a reasonable 9200₹ and I expect the front to be changed at the next service, for an automatic with a big engine and AWD, I feel these are great figures.
Had changed tyres at exactly 44000km. The grip of the new tyres is similar but the puncture resistance is much superior. Old ones still have some life left but one of them had burst and I decided I had enough of them. I don’t think this set would last the same though, but I’ve balanced and aligned only once since I bought them. I believe in not touching it if not wrong and the car tracks dead straight till date.
It’s a great car for my purpose and I’ve driven it to Lucknow twice, Jaisalmer twice, Ahmedabad twice, Agra 4 times, Mumbai once, Himachal Pradesh once, Punjab once and many other 200km highway day drives. It’s been a heck of a partner, just needs 95-octane fills and goes to the moon with you.
That’s it for now, would post more often.
