Car Details
Name
Vijendra Shenoy
City
Mysore
Car/Brand/Variant
Honda City ZX MT 5th Gen
Year of purchase
2020
KMs on ODO
8469
Avg. Service Cost
2,200 but 5000 for next one
Fuel Efficiency
12-20 kmpl
Fuel Type
Petrol
Ratings
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Overall Ratings
To start with, I wanted to buy a second hand car. Learn to drive perfectly, learn other aspects of car like spare parts, how different functionality works etc... Spent 2 months from June to August 2020. I could only find Maruti cars mostly but I wanted to buy a sedan and City was my top pick. Found one in the showroom but had rusting issues so decided to buy a new one.
My budget was 15-16 Lakhs and I was looking for an all-rounder which is good in most aspects. Rapid, Seltos, Verna and City were my shortlist.
Didn't go with Rapid even though owning a VW group car was my dream due to lot of gearbox, quality issues, bad service and the cost that comes with it.
Didn't buy Seltos and Verna because their diesel engines are fantastic but my running is petrol sufficient.
And what better than one of the best naturally aspirated petrol engines from Honda.... So, decided to go with the City.
It's a perfect allrounder checking all my boxes. Ground clearance was not an issue and believe me. I have taken it on the tallest and biggest of speed breakers and it has never bottomed out. The trick is to slow down to 12 kmph or less.
Delivered on Nov 27th, 2020. One day after 26/11 as a respect to our martyrs. Didn't want to take delivery on that day.
Fuel Efficiency
The fuel efficiency has been brilliant especially on highways as I was not expecting much and didn't buy for that reason. But, this is a bonus for me in the times of high fuel costs.
In bumper to bumper traffic which is rare in Mysore, it returns 11-12 kmpl.
In normal traffic conditions of city driving, it returns 13-15 kmpl depending on the driving style. On highways, we can easily extract 19-20 and 20+ based on gear changes done till 2500 RPM and max speed of 80-90 kmph.
If we drive really fast by revving high which I seldom do, it falls down to 17 kmpl which is still better than what I was expecting. Maybe, it's the DOHC over SOHC or something but I don't care as long as the car returns such good fuel economy. The MID and tank to tank till auto-cut is +/- 1 km accurate provided you check for 150-200 kms.
This is my experience of the Honda City 5th gen ZX MT 2020.
Options in 2022
If I had to buy today (budget: 20-22 Lakhs), I would test drive and check each and every aspect of the following cars to suit my requirements and then buy:
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