Its in-gear and lugging capability in the 4th and 5th gear have pleasantly surprised me.

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My Jimny has crossed 5000 kilometres in around 5 months and I have loved every bit of it. Mind you, this is one Jimny that is used 95% on tarmac. I haven’t been frustrated once due to the perceived lack of power. But then while I drive fast, hitting max speed ASAP has never been my kind of thing. In-gear acceleration has been adequate for all my needs.

I took my father’s Grand i10 Nios for the same highway drive one weekend and the same compliment of passengers. I expected it to be faster than the Jimny but was so frustrated at the power delivery characteristics of the engine that I vowed never to do that. The Jimny’s in-gear capability and its lugging capability in 4th and 5th have pleasantly surprised me. I have never felt that the engine limited my overtaking. Either buy the car that fits your driving style or drive the car in the style it needs to be driven. I drive the Jimny far different from how I used to drive the Baleno RS.

I have been ambivalent about the 2L discount and have often wondered why I did not have stronger feelings towards the same. But then remembered that it was more or less the same for the Baleno RS which was discounted in the facelift version by over a lakh. And it’s not just Maruti. It’s mostly the case with any performance/niche model that has been launched in India. The S-Cross 1.6, the PoloGTI (even with a limited run of 99 units. If it had 5 doors I would have bought it for the initial price too), the Baleno RS, Tiago JTP, the Polo GT diesel… almost every such model below 20 lakhs has gone through this phase. I think it may have to do with two things:

• The Jimny met my price expectations.
• It offered exactly what I was aspiring to and then some.

At the end of the day, all my car purchases have to satisfy my heart and my vision. If they do and I have the budget for it, I buy it. No regrets then at having a chance at ownership of this gem of a car no matter what discounts Mr. Jones gets on it.

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