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The guide to going midsize

No matter what car you're buying, 4 factors, namely the fuel efficiency, maintenance costs, depreciation and insurance, should be the ones on which you base your final decision. And here's a guide to help you do that if the car you're looking at is a midsized sedan.

Win Diesel!

A diesel-run automobile isn't necessarily the maintenance-mad, money-hungry monster that urban legend makes it out to be. Here's someone of the opinion that all else being equal, a diesel car scores over its petrol cousin in the same category.

Auto Replies

The Internet Edition of The Hindu Business Line has this nifty (though rather campily named) section called Question 'n' Auto. In it, readers can write in with queries to do with buying cars, among other things. What follow are links to some of the column archives that I thought made for good reading.

To kick things off, here's a couple of face-offs: the WagonR VXi vs. the Fiat Palio nv ELX petrol and the Tata Indigo vs. the Ford Ikon Flair.

To Palio D or not to D

That is the question that I posed to a bunch of rather erudite gentlemen and which I now pose to any and all of you who happen to drop by here and have an opinion to offer me on which is the better car to buy - the Fiat Palio 1.9D ELX or the Ford Ikon (1.3) Flair.

A Testing Time

So you've zeroed in on your list of the chosen few? Before you take the plunge, you gotta take the dip.

If you have no clue what I'm going on about, I'm trying to tell you the things that you should do when you take a car for a test drive.

Buying a new car - Step 5

An important step in the process of getting yourself a new car is test driving the car salesman.

Yeah, you heard that right.

How Generation X buys cars

Younger buyers are more likely to use the Internet as a research tool in the car-buying process than their older counterparts. Being more well-informed puts them in better control at the negotiation stage.