Logan By Mahindra Renault - A review October 28, 2007
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How many cars does a man need? Ask me? We just bought the new baby in town - Logan by Mahindra Renault.
Here I go on why we choose to buy it, why it is a great car and why it is unlikely to succeed in India (Have a great resale):
- Great reviews
- My daughter (all of 10 years) pushing for it
- On time test drive at home
- Friendly at home sales professional
- Very wide car and with no middle rest, feels even more wider, it is so wide that lovers can go estranged.
- A tall design which doesn’t look one. With turban my frame is over 6 feet.
- Rear seat, where I usually sit is huge for a car in this budget.
- The car runs!!! A great engine, good pick-up, very less noise. You are actually not in a diesel car till someone tells you.
- Road grip excellent couldn’t be better
- Braking mind blowing
- Suspension is little hard, but fine for all India drive.
- Paint Job is good
- Interior is roomy, but even in the top-end it gives a feel of “too much of plastic at too many places”
- Power window buttons can surely give you backache, if not a full blown spondylitis
- Doors are heavy and clumsy
- Doors open good enough for fairly healthy individuals to enter comfortably
- Boot is again best in class
- Fabric is fine
- Bad economizing at quite a few places, especially only one seat has a back pocket
Why go for it?
Great value for money. Solid. Wide. Tall. Silent. Economical. Boot.
Think twice?
Likely to have very poor resale. Too much of plastic in interiors. Clumsy doors. No central lighting. Bad positioning of power windows.
My 2 cents:
Not a good first car.
Best second car money can buy.
Best car if your driver drives and you travel at least 60 Kms every day.
We selected Logan over: Optra Diesel; Indigo Marina & XL;Ford Fiesta 1.6 Diesel; Hyundai Verna Diesel; SX4 Petrol & Honda City Petrol.
Price: Rs 6.56 lakhs in Delhi on Road for top of the line model.
Logan by Mahindra completed one month with us day before yesterday.
a) Remains the car of choice
b) Being wide helps
c) Entry and exit from the car is back friendly
d) Logged about 1200 Kms in first month
e) It does well on redlights
f) Boot has been helping out during airport rounds
g) Average about 17 in Delhi City and NCR running
h) Handling is good and handles Delhi roads well, does well on U-turns and sharp turns.
h) I recommend this car, now even to the first time buyers - It is comfortable….
Logan has been with us for about three months:
a) It has become a favorite car for daily commute
b) Has done 3666 Kms
c) There have been no problems, no noise, no issue
d) My wife’s Fiesta has been confined to the back garage
e) Boot not having a remote and opening only with key remains most inconvenient
f) We are getting use to the front panel power window button, but as this is one of our many cars, and only one to have this function it remains a pain
g) The car walks the talk on quality
h) I got chance to drive the Diesel Verna the other day, the car looks good, but Hyundai Verna is a typical mannequin material great to look at, no life. We were so glad we didn’t buy it.
i) Our Logan came with a good music system but without a remote, it remains a problem.
j) We feel Mahindra Renault may like to fix these few things in Logan
i) Boot/ Trunk should have remote as well as inside the cabin opening option
ii) Power windows should move to the more comfortable place on the door panels
iii) The Lumber Support should be removed, or made more comfortable to us
iv) Music system must come with a remote
Logan is a great car Mahindra Renault has an option to make it the largest selling car in India, the car can downgrade the small hatchback segment and become first choice in above Rs 4,00,000/- segment.
Logan needed some attention today. The rear left door handle needed screw tightening from inside (Philips 4 head). Crossed 5,000 Kms, fatest ever in our family. Fog lamps were put to good use today. Car remain value for money.
You can put a in car boot opener. I bought a Logan DLX today and fought really hard with the sales lady to give me teflon coating and the remote boot opener installed free of cost. On the very first day it was of use to me. I had gone to Nirmal Lifestyle mall in Mulund, Mumbai, for lunch and the guard there insisted on checking the boot. I felt so glad that I could open it while seating in the ac and not having to either stop the engine or having to get out of the car. You can check with the dealer from whom you got the car and have the remote boot opener installed in your car. There are 2 shortcomings still:
1. It operates only when the key is in the ready poistion, just before you start the vehicle.
2. It is still a manual process. Hence you still cannot install an autocop or a keyless opening of the boot from outside the car.
Logan is about to complete 6 months of service with Singh household. It is the only car in the house which runs everyday. Ford Fiesta the one to one choice with Logan is now used only to keep the batteries alive. It did a long stint with my wife’s parents as their Honda City had met with an accident. I was told that they felt it was far better than the City in all respects.
It had its service recently. The first “Look at” was the right door panel, there was some rattling noise. The Innova which came at the same time is still used rarely, the driving feel is not comfortable as compared to Logan and to me it looks like a “car” only if it is driven never a self drive choice for me. Logan is fun to move around.
The right door panel still makes noise. We’ve got it to the showroom twice in last one month, they have not been able to fix it.
Rattling noise from the door is audible and annoying.
7 months - 10,000 KMs. One deffect.
Yesterday morning I actually got disturbed by Mahindra Logan door noise. I sent it for repairs and in the evening the rattling remained. It looks like I will have to go myself to the workshop.