Chevrolet Aveo - A Short Introduction

Chevrolet Aveo: The Mind-blowing, Mind-blasting, Todu-Phodu car! Is it right? Well, I don't think so! But Rani and Saif said that it is! Let them say, they won't drive it, you will and then they will not be beside you either to listen to your complaints. Many people on carwale.com were asking for Aveo's first impression. I thought, let people know the truth. So, here I go, I am taking the excerpts from my own reply to such one question. Aveo is certainly not a match for Ford Fiesta or Honda City. Honda City is a proven class while Fiesta's initial impression is very good and it seems better than even Honda City in many aspects. I doubt Aveo's abilities to outperform Fiesta or City. Aveo's only positive point is its very good design. It gives you a great feel inside, thanks to the excessive beige inside! Exterior is good, looks big and overall build quality seems fine too. But when we come to its negative side then we need to have a paper and pen around. It doesn't perform as it expected, lacks in initial pickup and overall speed. Rear-seat is hell if you are a tall person, you will feel that you are sitting in a Bajaj Auto!!! Gearbox doesn't work well either, very hard to shift. Fuel economy might not be promising too, let GM claim it to be 15 in city. I am not impressed with its prices either! The top-end 1.6L version seems fine! Overall, Aveo's first impression is not good and if GM wants it to get going, it will think seriously refining the engine, just Rani and Saif's 'todu-fodu-mind-blowing' won't do. :-)

Carwale.com Car Recommendation System (Beta) launched!

In last 4 months of our presence, we have an opportunity to interact with more than 2000 car buyers and owners. Many reach us to help them in making the best car buying decision. We then work to understand their needs and preferences and recommend them the best matching car. This process, involves valuing so many car attributes and evaluating them exactly in the eyes of individual buyer. However, we have made a humble beginning.. and we bring Carwale Car Recommendation feature on carwale.com! It will suggest the user car of his/her choice instantly. Presently we are making this tool available only to registered users at carwale.com. All the registered members have been invited to test this tool. It will be available as a standard feature of carwale.com very soon. Meanwhile, we are also gathering a lot more data on cars and evaluating each of them on parameters like economy, comfort, style, performance, safety, reliability, experts reviews etc. We promise, we'll come with enhancement on this system soon. Keep visiting carwale.com, it has something new everyday! :-)

Car Insurance Premium Calculator launched

Its around one month now, we launched Insurance Premium Calculator for Indian people. We have tried to make it as simple and accurate as possible. The computation of Insurance Premium is done as per the IRDA (Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority). I had seen few Indian car insurance calculators on web. Most of them are either obsolete in terms of computation or are very hard to use. Some of them were asking visitors to provide IDVs (Insured's Declared Value) of their car and its accessories. In my opinion, not many people understand IDV's and all those extremely typical terminologies of Insurance and they are not supposed to know either. We have provided very small Insurance FAQs and Insurance Terminologies too. They are small but cover most of the useful terms of Insurance in India.