![]() This setup always seems to shift up early and doesn’t knock or lug even in 5th, ambling at 40-45 kmph in city traffic. Part of this high efficiency I seem to be getting, I think I owe to the amazingly tractable little mill and the manual 5-speed combo. And city drive between Noida to Gurgaon and back on weekday peak traffic turned out 16! This is perplexing since I read so much about this car not being able to return above high single or low double digit figures. A Delhi-Chandigarh run returned an indicated 17.1 kmpl and the tank-to-tank reconfirmed the exact figure. The Jimny has been showing me a spectacular fuel-efficiency so far. I’ve seen cops writing a challan, stop and stare as I wafted by and this goes on. I’ve had a middle aged woman pull up next to my moving car, roll down her window and give me a wave and a huge thumbs up. Strangers wave and make all kinds of appreciative gestures. Notable mentions in life with the Jimny over these 1000 kms:Īt least for now, till it doesn’t become a more familiar sight on the roads - this car sure gets a lot of attention. ![]() Personally, I like the Jimny in its stock form and find a kind of unassuming, underdog charm to its lines and a vanity project, at least for my use case, is not on the cards. To get back to the car itself, in little over the week I’ve had it, it’s already clocked 1000 kms and I took it in for the first checkup yesterday, retro-fitting the OE fog lamp as the only concession to stock I’m making right now. Simply cherry picked what I wanted and rejected what I could get cheaper outside/buy later. And yes, all my angst and efforts paid off, and I completely avoided the unreasonable showroom demands of ‘mandatory’ add-ons etc. It’s been around 9 days since I brought home our Jimny. ![]()
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