One Year experience completed
With the start of 2021, the Alto completed it's one year with us. This is equal to the duration Wagon R stayed in our usage but due to the Covid in '20 Alto was driven only 10k kms as compared to Wagon R's 22k kms in 12 months.
As of today, the Alto is driven 12k kms and I will say that I am very happy with the car. At the time of insurance renewal I considered replacing this little box with Yaris Ativ 1.3 but decided to go with Alto for atleast another year.
The average fuel economy from car's purchase till date is around 17.5 kms. And the car is driven 99% time with AC on (even during the peak winters of Karachi).
The performance difference in the car is very noticeable with addition of every passenger. For example if I am driving the car alone it's easy and economical (monitoring instantaneous fuel average = 24 - 25 kmpl) to drive in between 80 to 90 kph.. but if both the front seats are occupied by adults (90 to 100 kg each) this reduces to 70 to 80 Kph.... and when the car is loaded with 4 adults the instantaneous fuel average drops between 16 to 18 kmpl while driving between 40 to 50 km/h. If you push the car upto 80 90 kph with full load the instantaneous average shows reading around 13 to 15 kmpl