Hi!
Stingray isn't worthy car it is bad engineering and put it legacy to shame.
#1. Leg room: Front seats are normal but if you are 6 feet then you have to adjust the staring wheel if you want the other passenger sitting at back does not have more trouble. Front seat has enough leg room for someone that's less than 6 feets but if you are 6 feets then you if have issues specially when you sit behind the staring wheel. Back seat have standard seat and in order to make this model cheaper the length of the car is cut short and this resulted in lesser leg room for back seat. 2 Adults and 1 child can comfortably at back seat but not for long distance travel.
#2. Dealer Satisfaction: This's tricky as you'll never know how much the vehicle exactly cost if you visit 10 dealer they'll have same paper information and then when you talk through them they all will give you different quotes. It's just a match between you and them. You have to spend time in bargaining and they in turn does the same and pulls out accessories that they first said were free to bring down the price. This all is before buying the car. Once you bought then after sales is service and this's not satisfactory because you pay to get your vehicle service and inspected because normally people only know how to drive and are not aware but the engineering that is put behind their car and know very less about car fluids, electronics, battery, fuse board, etc. I actually caught my dealer charging me for Engine, coolant, brake oil replacement when Engine oil was not at all replaced. Brake oil and coolant wasn't flushed completely and I was asked to pay for services. I gave my car for service and went nearby buy for some work and I asked dealer when will the car would be ready I was informed it's ready. I was shocked and I came to dealer and I inspected the vehicle and I questioned them how can they do all these 3 big jobs in 2 hours when there were other cars reportedly that came before. I was given reasons but then I asked technician that did not inspected or did oil change on my car to jack up the car and show me from the brake line near the rear wheel how does the changed fluid looks. Dealer and that technician both did not want to do that but since I got attention from other customer that then they agreed to show me. Brake oil was black but a new brake oil looks transparent. They were caught and similarly Engine oil and coolant weren't flushed and they were just topping on new fluids to make you fool and just don't care about you. Dealer finally accepted mistake and changed all 3 fluids for me and from that day I am not getting the calls from the dealer from which I bought the car as I am not a good customer for them because I caught them cheating me and all.
#3. Mileage: It gives 14 KM/L on Highways and 10-12 KM/L in city with AC on without AC you'll get 2 KM extra.
#4. Comfort: You won't feel comfortable on back seat because back seat won't provide you comfort because of lesser space and suspension is not hydraulic it's a coiled spring for both rear and back. It has a very light chassis and when you're in a windy situation you'll feel a heavy thrust if wind is hitting your car from side. You when on highway could frequently experience it is too late to do anything about it because you already bought the car. It comes with a Factory fitted audio system which's good but lack USB port only auxiliary it there.
#5. Reliability: It isn't a reliable car it's a 3 cylinder 998 CC car to cut short taxes and keep is under a budget line. 3 cylinder engine will disappoint you if you have a heavy running even without conversion to alternate fuel. If you want to convert to CNG or LPG then you would face more issue because CNG and LPG kit for 3 cylinder engine is costly than for 4 cylinder engine. I would not suggest you to get it converted because you'll feel that Engine is being immediately lose the power and it's already just a 998 CC engine. You can get it LPG converted, LPG has PRopane mixed with Methane and it is not dry burn and you'll not feel any drop is running but in some region you will not have LPG stations in India and LPG won't give you as many KMs as CNG gives. This's another issue converting your vehicle to LPG is joke and getting is converted to CNG is a serious threat to engine life. You'll lose warranty from manufacturer immediately.
Stingray Engine without any changes is also very low performing Engine. When you will have 5 normal passenger sitting in it you will feel that Engine won't give you the power you need in traffic to over take, you'll notice a decline in pick-up. You've to be very sharp in gear shift. On speed breakers you have to be very slow to avoid hitting the breaker hitting the chassis or body from beneath. Suspension is very poor.
#6. Appeal: It looks nice and like a European car but it's a cheap done subject that fails to perform because under the hood of car there is nothing that appeals you. I bought this car because of appeal and for parents they have less usage so for them it OK but it isn't a Family car because it's not safe as the side way wind hit that I wrote above. You literally on a highway just have to park your car on side and see what happens when an car passes by at 60-70 KMs. You'll feel a thrust and when you drive and wind from side hits then you get scared.
I won't recommend it. I sold this car because of safety, performance and due to lack of comfort reasons.
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