Which budget car offers a perfect balance between affordability and feel-good factor?
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It took me a rather long and harrowing journey across Mumbai to really understand the idea behind the entry-level cars. The first half of the journey was an hour-long trip in the train, standing with barely any room among sweaty men and my bag over my head. Following that was a 15-minute journey in an auto rickshaw with seven others, before I finally reached Maruti’s stockyard to pick up the new Alto 800. After that trip, it didn’t matter that the car didn’t have height-adjustable steering, Bluetooth connectivity or automatic climate…
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