The Indian Star

Amongst a flood of car manufacturers from all over the world, Maruti in collaboration with Suzuki definitely remains the favorite Indian star as far as cars are concerned. When it comes to buying the first family car, most of the Indians immediately first look for options available in Maruti.

Keeping up with their tradition of providing the nation with excellent cars in all segments, Maruti Suzuki has now come up with the A Star. It is the much awaited latest addition in the list of small family cars provided by Maruti and the Zxi is the higher end model.

Technological View

As with all the A Star variants, the first thing that Maruti is highlighting as the USP of the car is its DOHC, KB Series 3 cylinder, 998cc engine. If you understand a 3 cylinder 998cc engine but are not getting any head or tail of a DOHC or Double Over Head Cam engine, then let me assist you here.

The only thing that you need to know out of all this is that a DOHC technology or make helps your engine breathe easy, and produce more horse powers even with a small engine. Even more simply saying, it enhances the efficiency and performance of your engine.

Other than that, the car has a fuel tank capacity of 35 liters and gives an average of 14.00kmpl in the city and 19.00kmpl out on the highway.

Now Featuring

The A Star Zxi is the high end version of the car and therefore provides the maximum features. It gives you a 129.00liters boot space, power steering, power windows, remote controlled central locking system, AC, remote controlled boot and fuel tank operations and additional features like a rear wiper, a rear defogger and even control buttons on steering for your convenience and driving safety.

The A Star Zxi also come pre installed with a CD player with four speakers as against the two speakers provided in the Vxi version.

Safe Drive

All the variants of an A Star including the Zxi are designed on the Total Effective Control Technology or the TECT. The makers of the car claim that due to this technology, in the event of a mishap, the entire impact of the accident will be taken in by the crushable structure ensuring total safety of the passengers. The regular features like ABS or Anti lock Braking System and dual airbags add to the safety precautions of the car.

Look at Me

The A Star is designed as a stylish, compact car for small families. It comes in a total of nine metallic and non metallic colors giving you cool options to make a style statement. The overall look may appeal to some as a funky small car.

Overall

The car is trendy looking yet high on technology. However, at the same time we can't help but notice that it is a small built car not very convenient to tall or large people. Also, the car also seems to be more suitable for city driving rather than highway driving.