Technical evaluation to Choose a car for the specific budget

Mr. Ravindra Sarma, this is some thing technical. this does not belong to hospitality. Dont participate to gain points.

Mr Jinesh, Lecturer sir, You have put so many tech. terms. How come ? because you have gained knowledge of these terms as you have read those mags or books. Dont you think thousands of people gothrouh the same books and mags. Pls refer hard copies or e-brocures of cars world wide.

Hai Puneet, the mags are taking advantage of the not technical, general and innocent public. You will understand when you grow-up further.

Hi Mrudula, Thank you for participation. You are a Product development manager. If some one asks for comparision of your product, will you simply say it's the best product and the person will agree for what you say. Dont you need to support your statment with quantified superiority or inferiority of your product ? Pls respond for the sake of friendly debate.

Interesting topic.

Well its true that most magz are now giving favoured reviews.

I think a good way to help potential customers evaluvate cars is by :

1. give them a list of options available in the category they are interested in.

2. help them compare the different specs and tell briefly what each means.

    In a way they relate to it, while driving.

3. Past user feedback of all the different cars.

4. It would fantastic if a delear has say four or more type of cars of a particular category. Say for example, i want to buy a hunch back small car...

There is a dealer in town who has hyundai, maruti, fiat etc. There i will be able compare DIRECTLY....and thats the best way a decision can be taken according the person's interest.

Though i think it would harm certain companies (cos of poor products)... eventually, the fact is... every customer does sum comparing ALWAYS... if the dealer provides him with those... he can take the advantage in his own ways...

I firmly believe technical evaluation can be an authentic assessment when compared to review by Auto Mags - at least in India. It is common perception that media coverage is usually slanted...

The catch of course is that the individuals making the technical evaluation need to be neutral - and to find such people who can maintain integrity may not be that easy. After all, the Auto Mags also did not start off with bias - they only got swayed enroute!

While such evaluations are not the trend now for the individual car buyer NOW, I definitely feel that they will be more the habit int he future.

So far there werefew really "GOOD" cars that felt good to drive - seat of the pants assessment. Now a days with standardization and norms, many cars are coming in to the same category. So people need a reason to select a particular model. 

Discussions about engine capacity, torque, power, pick up, milage and all have become the norm at the lunch table.