{"id":275925,"date":"2010-02-04T09:30:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T14:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.team-bhp.com\/forum\/hatchbacks\/74901-buying-new-car-guidance-needed.html"},"modified":"2010-02-04T09:30:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T14:30:33","slug":"buying-a-new-car-guidance-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/275925","title":{"rendered":"Buying a new Car &#8211; Guidance Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I&#8217;m planning to buy a new car which will be self driven by me for work everyday. The travelling would be about 30 KM per day and since I&#8217;m planning to keep the car for a longer period of time I will go for a Diesel variant and I have no doubt in that. <\/p>\n<p><b>Here are my concerns<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p>(1) Budget not more than 5-6 L Rupees (On Road Price)<\/p>\n<p>(2) Handling should be easy as this is the first time I will own a car (I just know to drive). Did my driving licence in 2001. Since then never drove a car.<\/p>\n<p>(3) Need decent rear knee space<\/p>\n<p>(4) Good manueverability in city traffic<\/p>\n<p>(5) Good FE (would expect around 18-22 KMPL on City \/ Highways)<\/p>\n<p>(6) Low maintenence (Willing to spend not more than 10K Rupees Per year)<\/p>\n<p>(7) Good for long trips (Would require travel between Chennai &#8211; Sivakasi (Wifey&#8217;s native))<\/p>\n<p>(8) Decent boot space<\/p>\n<p>(9) Airbags + ABS is a must<\/p>\n<p>(10) Child lock is a must (I have a naughty daughter)<\/p>\n<p>I have shortlisted the following machines (in the order of my liking):<\/p>\n<p>(1) Grande Punto<\/p>\n<p>(2) VW Polo<\/p>\n<p>(3) Ford Figo<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that with the valuable suggestions from you all, I would have a good decision to make.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m planning to buy a new car which will be self driven by me for work everyday. The travelling would be about 30 KM per day and since I&#8217;m planning to keep the car for a longer period of time I will go for a Diesel variant and I have no doubt in that. Here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}